#defensive-play-calling

#defensive-play-calling

Start with Mike Macdonald, because what's at stake for the Seahawks' head coach goes well beyond a Lombardi Trophy. If Seattle wins Sunday, Macdonald would become the first head coach in the Super Bowl era to serve as the primary defensive play caller for a championship team. Not just a defensive-minded head coach. Not a former coordinator overseeing things from a distance. Actively calling the defense himself, snap after snap, on the sport's biggest stage.

That process will be expedited, according to Hafley, as he made some outside interview rounds Friday. "I think we'll see in the next day or two who the coordinator is," Hafley said on the Rich Eisen Show on Friday. "We're just kind of piecing that together and then, hopefully by the weekend, we'll have all three coordinators in. I feel like we're close. I'll call the defense, but I'll still have a defensive coordinator."

"We subbed and we got into our calls," Vrabel said. "We talked about this before, the best call is a decisive one that the players know and believe in and that they have confidence that they can execute their job. When we needed to get the drive stopped, we got the drive stopped. We had a plan to play these guys and how we wanted to play them."