Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald doesn\u2019t think he\u2019d be a head coach in a Super Bowl if not for John Harbaugh.<\/p>\n
Macdonald spent a decade as an assistant to Harbaugh in Baltimore, and he said that it was Harbaugh who shaped him into the head coach he is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to overstate his influence on me,\u201d Macdonald said. \u201cI love John Harbaugh. He\u2019s one of my biggest mentors. He was willing to take chances on me when other people weren\u2019t and invested in me throughout my career. He had a vision for me and my career that I probably didn\u2019t have for myself. All the principles that are part of his program, that he\u2019s about as a person, resonated with me. Those are a lot of the foundational principles that we brought to Seattle. He\u2019s also a great friend, got a great family, I can\u2019t say how much I love him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Macdonald was 26 years old when Harbaugh hired him, and 12 years later he\u2019s one of the best head coaches in the NFL. Harbaugh had a lot to do with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald doesn\u2019t think he\u2019d be a head coach in a Super Bowl if not for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-446894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}