This year’s Seattle Seahawks offense brings plenty of new faces, including a big-name receiver and a young, new offensive coordinator.
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Fans haven’t had a chance to see the recently signed Cooper Kupp in action with the Seahawks, nor had much of a look at Klint Kubiak’s offense outside of his time with the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings. But why wait to hear more about it when you can ask the source?
After all, these two have already spent quite of bit of time with each other, and Kupp is excited about what he’s seeing and hearing from Kubiak.
“Klint, he’s a very intelligent football coach,” Kupp told Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy on Thursday. “You see things he’s bringing, the thought process that goes into it, the intention. … And I think the coolest thing is, despite being a really smart offensive coordinator putting together a competent offense, his humility to say he doesn’t know everything is really cool, because it brings the players into it to own it as well.
“It’s not just, this is my thing, you do it. It’s, this is our thing and we’re going to do it together.”
Kupp is high on a receiver group that’s had notable turnover this offseason with the trade of DK Metcalf and release of longtime veteran Tyler Lockett.
That group is headlined now by Jaxon Smith-Njigba, coming off of a breakout sophomore season, and rounded out with Kupp and veteran Marquez Valdes-Scantling. Beyond that, though, is a lot of youth and little experience. There are familiar names (Jake Bobo is entering his third season with three starts under his belt, while Dareke Young is entering his fourth season) and new ones (including 2025 draft picks Tory Horton and Ricky White III).
Question marks can bring doubt, but Kupp has little right now, seeing plenty of potential instead.
“We’ve got guys who can do everything,” Kupp said. “And not just saying there’s one guy that does this one thing. There’s a fullness to each guy of, hey, I can be involved in the run game, I can be involved in the third level of the defense, I can attack each level. So if you have guys who can do everything, it makes it really cool to move guys around and be able to say, look, you don’t know where it’s going to be coming from, but each guy’s got their opportunities.”
Kupp was tight-lipped on some of the things that have him most excited for this Seahawks offense, but sometimes excitement from the top down is, well, exciting on its own.
“(Head coach Mike Macdonald) was talking about how excited he was for these things that he’s coming up with – I can’t even say, I’m going to say too much,” Kupp said. “And he was just giggling out over these different – I’m not even going to tell you – these different things that he’s just so pumped about.
“And I was like, this is awesome. This is awesome to have the excitement and the enthusiasm. This is the stuff that gets people excited. We’ve got some good guys up there.”
Listen to the full conversation with Seahawks wide receiver Cooper Kupp at this link or in the audio player near the top of this story. Tune in to Bump and Stacy weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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