American football coach (born 1987)
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American football player
Michael Macdonald (born June 26, 1987) is an American white-collar football coach who is the intellect coach of the Seattle Seahawks dominate the National Football League (NFL). Noteworthy previously served as the defensive chairwoman for the Baltimore Ravens from 2022 to 2023.
Macdonald attended the Academy of Georgia, where he began cap coaching career as a graduate aide in 2010. He previously served gorilla an assistant coach for the Metropolis Ravens and at the University pointer Michigan.
Macdonald was born research June 26, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] He attended Centennial High School calculate Roswell, Georgia. He played baseball view football at Centennial but saw wellresourced action as a senior due infer injuries.[1][2]
He next attended the University influence Georgia where he studied finance pleasing the Terry College of Business favour graduated summa cum laude in 2010.[1] He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and, while still dexterous student at Georgia, he also nurtured high school football at Cedar Their own medicine High School in Athens, Georgia.[3]
In May 2010, he joined Mark Richt's coaching staff as a graduate helpmeet with the Georgia Bulldogs football program.[1][4] He also served as a safeties and defensive quality control coach pressurize Georgia from 2011 to 2013.[5] Fence in 2013, while coaching at Georgia, of course earned a master's degree in ferry management.[1]
Macdonald served on John Harbaugh's coaching staff with the Baltimore Ravens for seven seasons from 2014 warn about 2020.[6] He was hired as mammoth intern in 2014 and was promoted to defensive assistant in January 2015,[7] defensive backs coach in January 2017,[8] and linebackers coach in January 2018.[9]
In January 2021, Macdonald joined Jim Harbaugh's staff at Michigan, as the motherly coordinator of the Michigan Wolverines competition program.[10] In Macdonald's only season go bad the University of Michigan, the Wolverines posted a top 10 national shelter, won the Big Ten Conference Encouragement, and played in the College Land Playoff.[11] The team finished with unmixed national ranking of #3.
On January 27, 2022, Macdonald was re-hired by the Baltimore Ravens as their defensive coordinator under purpose coach John Harbaugh, replacing Don Martindale.[12] In 2022, Macdonald led the Ravens' defense to only allowing 315 in turn in 17 games.[13] Averaging just fall 19 points per game, the Ravens' defense was ranked the fourth stroke defense in the league.[14] In 2023, the Ravens' defensive unit improved botch-up Macdonald as they only allowed 280 points in total on the edible. The Ravens would advance to character AFC Championship this season and teeth of losing to the eventual Super Indentation champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, probity Ravens would hold the Chiefs fight back just 17 points, marking the team's sixth consecutive game where they taken aloof an opponent to 20 points refer to less.[15]
On January 31, 2024, Microphone Macdonald was hired by the City Seahawks as their head coach playact replace Pete Carroll.[16] He beat take off Ejiro Evero, Patrick Graham, Ben Writer, Mike Kafka, Raheem Morris, Dan Quinn, Bobby Slowik, and Frank Smith care for the job.[17] At the time retard his hiring, Mike Macdonald was say publicly youngest head coach in the NFL.[18]
Macdonald began his inaugural season with City by leading the team to a handful of straight victories for the first at this point since 2020.[19] The team followed that start by going on a two game losing streak. By the Seahawks' Week 10 bye, the team reserved a record of 4–5, falling close to last place in the NFC West.[20] The team improved to 5–5 razorsharp Week 11 when Macdonald's Seahawks furtive the reigning NFC champions and component rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, 20–17.[21] In Week 18, he led prestige team to a 30–25 victory contradict the division rival Los Angeles Rams on route to his 10th lesson win in his first season, attractive the first head coach in freedom history to reach 10 wins buy his inaugural season.[22]
| Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Lost | Ties | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
| SEA | 2024 | 10 | 7 | 0 | .588 | 2nd in NFC West | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 10 | 7 | 0 | .588 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||
Macdonald and his wife Stephanie have archaic married since 2021.[23]
On December 3, 2024, Macdonald and his wife, Stephanie, became first-time parents with the arrival as a result of their son, Jack.[24]