How good a defensive coach is Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald? He took a unit that had underperformed for a few years and turned it into a top-10 unit last season. In the second half of 2024, Seattle's D was arguably a top-5 group.
But Macdonald doesn't do it with vanilla schemes; they might just look vanilla to opposing quarterbacks. Instead, the coach disguises his alignments, and where a player is before the snap might not be where he is when the quarterback gets the ball. That means a QB is guessing a lot against the Seahawks.