The Seahawks are heading into training camp with a major ownership change looming, but Mike Macdonald says the football side isn’t being rattled by it.
Seattle opened camp on Saturday, just two weeks after the organization announced it would be sold to a group led by Vinod Khosla, pending league approval. Macdonald, speaking in his first press conference of camp, said the team is treating everything as business as usual for now.
“We haven’t had much interaction yet, and everything is about the same as it’s been,” Macdonald told reporters. “Nothing’s changed on our front, nor will it for the foreseeable future.
So that’s how we’re approaching everything. We had great visits with all the folks that were here.
The best way to describe my mentality is that I’m excited to get going.
“We’re thankful for Jody [Allen] and the things that her and the rest of the ownership group did, especially since I’ve been here, it’s been fantastic and hopefully the rest of the 12s feel the same way as they should. Now we’re entering a new chapter in our organization’s history. That’s a cause for excitement as well.”
Macdonald also said he had a short in-person meeting with the incoming owners. “You can always talk on the phone and do Zooms, but being in person is a different experience, which I definitely appreciated,” Macdonald said.
The Khosla group is set to pay a record $9.612 billion for the Seahawks, and the expectation is that they’ll have the freedom to run the franchise as they see fit. For now, though, Macdonald’s message was simple: the operation is intact, and the focus stays on football.
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