Smith has campaigned for Barack Obama. He has a master’s degree, a real-estate license and enough potato-farming knowledge to host lectures. He dances at practice and occasionally flips his hat backward. Besides Pete Carroll, he might have the most fun of any coach in the NFL.
Subject: Carl Smith.
Occupation: Seahawks quarterback coach; mentor to Russell Wilson.
Problem: Many players, maybe even most, don’t know or remember his name.
“Carl Smith?” receiver Jermaine Kearse asks. “The basketball coach?”
When informed that Carl Smith is, in fact, the Seahawks’ quarterback coach who has been there since Kearse joined the team in 2012, Kearse’s face jolts.