Breaking: Hawks set to sign Kupp

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Still haven't heard what the Kupp guaranteed dollars are...

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Kupp on kubiak's offense

"In this offense, what (new Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak has) done is be able to formation guys to be anywhere," Kupp said. "That's how I learned this offense originally. You had to learn the whole thing, because you could be in any of these spots at any time. You can't think of yourself as just a slot. You have to see yourself playing any one of these positions at any time, because you could be asked to run any one of these routes."

That's why it works having both JSN and Kupp as slot receivers

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I don't believe MM replaced Grubb with kubiak because he's obsessed with running the football, I think he feels kubiak will be able to run a more balanced NFL offense and be willing to listen

Instead of Kubiak using his introductory news conference and subsequent radio interviews as a promise to pound the rock, his message centered around offensive balance, with an oft-repeated line about being able to beat defenses in multiple ways

"Coach Macdonald has stressed from the beginning the things that he's looking for, and the type of offense that he seeks," Kubiak told Sports Radio 93.3 KJR-FM. "I'm excited that our brand of football does match that. We talked through that in the interview process, and we also have the same agreement that it's not always going to be one way. There's more than one way to win a game.

"Obviously we want to be a physical team that can run the football and play action and all those things, but then we've got to be at our best in those drop-back passing situations. So there's a lot that goes into it. I definitely believe that our priorities align."

The two offenses Kubiak previously coordinated finished outside the top 10 in designed rush rate, with the 2021 Minnesota Vikings ranking 11th (39.6%) and the 2024 New Orleans Saints 14th (39.8%). Over the six games in which Kubiak called plays for the Denver Broncos in the second half of 2022, they were 20th (35.9%).

When isolating each team's designed rush rate to moments in games in which the score differential was no more than eight points, the '21 Vikings dropped to 20th (39%), the '22 Broncos moved up to 16th (41.8%) and last season's Saints jumped to eighth (43%).

But any of that would qualify as run-heavy compared to Grubb, whose Seahawks ran the ball infrequently (29th in designed rush rate at 33.7%) and not all that effectively (28th at 95.7 yards per game), which put too much pressure on quarterback Geno Smith

"It's important to establish a way of doing business here," he said. "We're going to start with that being an outside zone, but obviously we're going to incorporate gap schemes, inside zones, pin and pull. We've got to do what our players do best. So we have a philosophy that we believe in, a style that we believe in, but you've got to be able to win more than one way, like we said."

"Because if you drop back 50 times in the game, it's tough," he said. "You've have got to be a balanced team. I think balance is important and sometimes you've got to drop back 50 times to win the game and sometimes you've got to run it 50 times. But when it all comes through, we want to be balanced, and we want to be able to win multiple ways."

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Its interesting the start kubiak had in new Orleans. He hasn't had the chance really to build season to season with a team. Given that chance I could see kubiak establishing himself as a pretty decent offensive coordinator.

From when the saints beat the cowboys last season. Kubiak really doesn't sound to me like some throw back, three yards and a cloud of dust kinda of guy

His breakout arguably arrived on Sunday as he dunked on the Mike Zimmer defense with which he had become so familiar during their spell on the same coaching staff in Minnesota.

Among the priorities when it comes to offensive production against Dallas is finding a way to blunt Micah Parsons and the rest of his defensive front. Kubiak succeeded in doing just that as the Cowboys were limited to just one sack and quarterback hit (of which they managed 17 in their Week One win over the Cleveland Browns), Parsons even giving the Saints offensive coordinator his flowers for the way in which he schemed against him after the game.

Kubiak got funky with the double-team disguises on Parsons, deploying tight ends in motion as chippers along with running back support to leave the Cowboys edge rusher with multi-layered traffic-jam protections in his face at all times. Zimmer's men were second best all afternoon, Kubiak's use of 12 personnel (1 RB, 2 TE) selling the running game and forcing the Cowboys into base personnel with heavy formations in order to warrant slower second-level defenders as a means of opening up the passing game downfield.

Carr used play-action on a league-high 58.8 per cent of passing plays (Next Gen Stats), with under-center heavy sets, pre-snap motion, efficient zone blocking and a four-touchdown Alvin Kamara sustaining the threat of the ground game while the Saints quarterback delivered snappy releases in a fast and fluid offense built on clinical and straight-forward decisions through the air. The reads were simplified by outstanding play design, while the window-dressing maximised the Saints' speed downfield.

"Just speaking for the offense, when you're able to go out there and execute, limit the self-inflicted wounds, have explosive plans, like, man, the sky's the limit," said Kamara. "It feels good right now. You all know me, I'm not too into the hype. It's a win but we've got to keep moving."