SHOCKING STORY: See who is going to replace Pete Carroll as Seahawks head coach headlined by Cowboys……

RENTON, Wash. – With Pete Carroll stepping aside as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, the team will embark on the search for a new coach for the first time since 2010.

General manager John Schneider will be tasked with finding Carroll’s replacement as he takes full control of the front office after working in tandem with Carroll for the last 14 seasons.

One of the names most easily connected to the opening is a fairly familiar one for Seahawks fans: Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn.

Quinn spent four years on Carroll’s coaching staff with the Seahawks over two different stints with the team. He was one of a few holdovers from Jim Mora’s coaching staff when Carroll was hired in 2010. Quinn served as Carroll’s assistant head coach/defensive line coach for two years before leaving to become the defensive coordinator at the University of Florida. Quinn returned to Seattle in 2013 as Carroll’s defensive coordinator after Gus Bradley left to become head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. In his two years as defensive coordinator, the Seahawks made back-to-back trips to the Super Bowl and won their first Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.

Quinn left to become head coach of the Atlanta Falcons in 2014 and made it to the Super Bowl in 2016. After being let go by the Falcons after the 2020 season, Quinn was hired as the defensive coordinator in Dallas.

Quinn obviously knows many people in the Seahawks’ building, including Schneider and VP of Player Personnel Trent Kirchner. The Cowboys have been a top 10 scoring defense in each of Quinn’s three seasons as defensive coordinator, and improved from 19th in total defense in 2021 to fifth this season.

But Quinn likely won’t be the only candidate on the Seahawks’ radar.

The “Rooney Rule” requires each NFL team to interview at least two external minority candidates for available head coaching positions. So the team will be mandated to at least speak with two such candidates.

The process is just starting for the Seahawks, so none of the following names are anyone officially connected to the vacancy. However, they are candidates that would make sense for the team to consider for one reason or another. No insider knowledge (yet) on these possibilities.