The Seahawks have not yet replaced offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates, who was fired Tuesday, but Seattle did make a significant hire.
Tom Cable, a 1982 graduate of Snohomish High School, was announced as the team’s assistant head coach/offensive line coach.
Cable spent the last two-plus seasons as the head coach in Oakland, but the Raiders declined to keep him after his contract ran out. Cable, who played at Snohomish and the University of Idaho, has spent most of his coaching career as an offensive line coach.
Cable, 46, took over as Oakland’s head coach after Lane Kiffin was fired four games into the 2008 season. The Raiders went 8-8 this season, their first non-losing season since 2002, and went 6-0 in the AFC West, but Oakland decided to make a change at head coach.
The Seahawks also announced the hiring of Todd Wash as the defensive line coach, replacing Dan Quinn who took the defensive coordinator job at the University of Florida. Wash spent the last three seasons as Tampa Bay’s defensive line coach.
Seattle promoted two coaches already on staff to fill the vacant defensive backs coach position, which came open when Jerry Gray accepted a job at the University of Texas. Kris Richard, who was an assistant defensive backs coach last season and before that a graduate assistant under Pete Carroll at USC, was named the defensive backs coach/cornerbacks. Rocky Seto, who also came to Seattle from USC, was promoted from quality control coach to assistant defensive backs coach/safeties.
The Seahawks are still currently without an offensive coordinator and a quarterbacks coach.
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