Seattle Seahawks’ New Coaching Staff at a Glance

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Published: May 21, 2009

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... least a year off from coaching, the Seahawks coaching staff has a bunch of new faces.

Former mainstays John Marshall and Gil Haskell are gone.

Marshall had been with the team since 2003, serving first as the team’s linebackers coach, and later as the team’s defensive coordinator when Ray Rhodes stepped down for health reasons.

Haskell joined Holmgren in Green Bay when Holmgren got the job in 1992, and has spent all but one season with the former coach since then.

A lot of things are bound to change, both offensively and defensively, though they may not be wholesale changes.

Jim Mora, the team’s new head coach, had been in waiting as the team’s defensive backs coach and assistant head coach.

Mora, the son of Jim E. Mora (Seattle’s Mora isn’t a “Junior,” but Jim L. Mora), got his first big break as the San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator in 1999. Oddly enough, he replaced John Marshall when h...

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