Seahawks' Mike Macdonald Can Build Legacy With Win Over Sean McVay, Rams

Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is getting ready to coach the biggest game of his life when the Los Angeles Rams come to town for the NFC championship.

Macdonald has only been at the helm for two years, but he has gotten the Seahawks over the hump and back into the playoffs. Now, he has the team one win away from a Super Bowl berth. NFL.com writer Nick Shook wrote about how historic Macdonald's run could be if the Seahawks beat the Rams over the weekend.

"Sunday's contest features two of the four youngest active head coaches in the NFL in Sean McVay and Mike Macdonald. They share that similarity but have traveled vastly different roads to this juncture. McVay has 92 wins to his name since being hired in 2017, has already tied Don Shula for the most playoff wins recorded by a coach under 45 years old (10), has already guided his team to two Super Bowl appearances (one win) and will be coaching in his 16th career playoff game Sunday," Shook wrote.

"Macdonald, on the other hand, is in just his second season at the helm in Seattle and coached in his first playoff game last week. He's traveled a postseason road as an assistant, but this is his first rodeo amid deep playoff pressure, and the stakes will be incredibly high when he leads his team onto the field in Seattle this weekend. If his team wins, he'll become the fourth-youngest coach to take his team to a Super Bowl -- a historical category dominated by McVay."