The Seattle Seahawks hired Casey Bradley as the team's new defensive coordinator and Dan Quinn as the defensive line/assistant head coach, according to team sources.

The deals for the two coaches will not be final until Monday.

The Tampa Tribune also is reporting the Bradley is off to Seattle.

"They offered me the job and I accepted," Bradley told The Tribune. "I signed the contract a little while ago."

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Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the Seattle Seahawks are no longer interested in Rod Marinelli's services, and that the ex-Detroit Lions coach will choose between defensive line coaching positions in Chicago and Houston.

Marinelli had interviewed with Seattle this week and was being considered for the defensive coordinator position. That choice appears to have been narrowed down to two people, Casey "Gus" Bradley, the linebackers coach for Tampa Bay, and Cleveland defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. The Seahawks interviewed Tucker today. An earlier report had Seattle hiring Bradley, but team sources said the report was premature.

For a coach recently fired after leading his team to a 0-16 record, ex-Detroit Lions head coach Rod Marinelli sure is getting a lot of attention in the offseason.

Marinelli will interview with a third team today, this time for a spot as the defensive coordinator for the Houston Texans, the Houston Chronicle is reporting.

Marinelli already interviewed for a defensive line coaching gig in Chicago last week, and was in Seattle on Monday to talk about the Seahawks defensive coordinator position.

In his first major hire as head coach, Jim Mora tabs Greg Knapp as Seattle's new offensive coordinator. The move was first reported by the NFL Network, and later confirmed by team sources. Knapp worked as Mora's offensive coordinator in Atlanta, and it's been speculated he would be Mora's offensive guy for awhile now.

Matt Hasselbeck and the rest of Seattle's offense will have a new system to learn during the offseason, and it will be interesting to see how the players pick up the new scheme. It's been speculated that Seattle will run the ball more in 2009, and that seems to be Knapp's style from his time in Atlanta and Oakland.

The Falcons led the NFL in rushing in 2005, averaging 159.1 yards a contest with a 1,000-yard rusher and three Pro Bowlers on offense.

However, Oakland head coach Tom Cable did take away the play-calling duties from Knapp during the season while Knapp was with the Raiders, so it will be interesting to see how that shakes out in Seattle, although I would expect Knapp to be the guy calling the plays.

There still has been no word as to the status of former offensive coordinator Gil Haskell, along with defensive coordinator John Marshall or the rest of the coaching staff left over from last season. Haskell has been rumored to be retiring. However, that has not been confirmed, and we should know more about the future of the rest of the staff by late this week early next week.

Also, Mora will address the media on Tuesday

Pro Football Talk is reporting the Cleveland defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has received permission to talk to the Seattle Seahawks about the possibility of becoming Seattle's defensive coordinator.

Tucker was considered for the vacant Browns head coaching job, but it appears the recently fired New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini.

Another sleeper could enter the Seattle Seahawks coaching search for an offensive coordinator by the end of this week – Boston College head coach Jeff Jagodzinski.

The Boston Herald is reporting Jagodinski interviewed for the New York Jets head coaching positions today, against the wishes of B.C. athletic director Gene DeFilippo, and will likely be fired from his head coaching gig with the Eagles.

How does this relate to the Seahawks? Jagodinski is a long shot to win the job with the Jets, but reportedly wants back in the NFL and has ties to both Matt Hasselbeck and Jim Mora. Jagodinski coached Hasselbeck during his first stint at Boston College, serving as the offensive coordinator. And he also worked as a tight ends coach and offensive line coach for Mora when he coached at Atlanta.

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The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Chicago Bears have made Rod Marinelli an offer to coach the defensive line. Marinelli interviewed with head coach Lovie Smith on Friday, and was in Seattle to discuss the defensive coordinator position on Monday.

Recently fired Detroit Lions head coach Rod Marinelli reportedly is in town to interview for the defensive coordinator position for the Seattle Seahawks, according to a report by KCPQ 13.

Another story from the NFL Network reports that Marinelli had been in contact with Seattle's brass about coaching for the Seahawks.

Team sources would not confirmed Marinelli is in the Seattle area, but it is believed the Seahawks are interested in adding Marinelli to the team's coaching staff.

Marinelli has connections with Seahawks team president Tim Ruskell and the team's vice president of player personnel Ruston Webster from his days of coaching defensive line at Tampa Bay. He coached Tampa Bay's defensive line for 10 seasons, the last four as the team's assistant head coach.

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Mike Holmgren is not going to hold his press conference today but is going to wait until 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. I don't suspect he is going to announce anything about his immediate future at the press conference. I think it will be more of a postmortem on the season, his thoughts on the season, his thoughts on where the team currently stands regarding its ability to get back to the Super Bowl with its current core group of players.

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We'll cover Mack Strong first. Holmgren said though he has not finalized anything or worked out details, he said he would like to have Mack continue to have some role with the team. Whether that is coaching or whatever, Holmgren doesn't know. But he said Mack feels like he has a lot invested in the organization and doesn't want his ties with the team to end so abruptly.

As for Leonard Weaver, Holmgren said he will be the starting fullback. Holmgren said newly acquired Fred McCrary has some of the same qualities as Strong, but it is now Leonard's job. How he will respond, he doesn't know. SOme guys respond very well going from irregular contributors to The Man, as Holmgren called him, some choke. He has to wait and see with Weaver, though he said one of the positive aspects are that Weaver gives them the option of catching passes out of the backfield. His primary responsibility, though, is lead blocking for Shaun. To that end, Holmgren said there will be a learning curve for Alexander and Weaver because Alexander and Strong had a feel for one another built up over time. He said Weaver will need to get used to the notion that he is not a halfback that will be running the ball.

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I am going to assume that the injured guys are not going to play when I make the list of inactives:

LB Leroy Hill
WR Ben Obomanu
RB Maurice Morris
DE Jason Babin
OL Tom Ashworth
OL Mansfield Wrotto
Wr D.J. Hackett

One of the biggest topics of conversation on Monday concerned Mike Holmgren and whether his play-calling had become more daring and less conservative in general, and whether he is allowing for more new things across the team. The failed fleaflicker was an obvious example of that, but there were others. He put more men in motion on the offense, he did more shifting. "I think there is an advantage to that," Holmren said. "Any time you can get guys to move prior to the snap, you get a little bit of an edge, I think." Holmgren said somebody pointed out to him that he had not run a fleaflicker since he coached his first game in Seattle, against Detroit, with a similar result. He admitted that outcome does make him more reticent to make bold play-calls.

But he allowed some stuff on the defensive side of the ball too. Patrick Kerney and Darryl Tapp are shifted to the interior positions at times, Julian Peterson is permitted to roam more and Deon Grant was brought up into the box for run support. "As long as you don't go haywire and try to do too much so that you're diluting the product and you're not able to execute properly like, quite frankly, that flea flicker," Holmgren said.