Klint Kubiak on Jan 22, 2026, at team's facilities, taking questions at news conference - John Froschauer/AP Photo
After his final game as Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator at Super Bowl LX, Klint Kubiak will head home to regroup. His next task will be to lead the Las Vegas Raiders as their new head coach.
How he got there
The son of former NFL head coach Gary Kubiak, Klint boasts a track record of developing many talented QBs. While in New Orleans, the 38-year-old managed to get quality production from both quarterbacks, Derek Carr and Spencer Rattler. This is despite the team going only 4-13 in 2024.
His offense’s bread and butter is a strong running game that wins up front. This year, he formed a dominant two-headed attack with running backs Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet. Charbonnet suffered a season-ending injury in the playoffs.
Sam Darnold is in the Super Bowl. Can Kubiak even believe it?
Of course, he believes it. He’s the one who’s been calling plays for the quarterback, and it’s worked all year. Therefore, Darnold always believed in himself and the coaching staff and just tuned out the doubters.
Nevertheless, the young offensive guru proved that an old-school offense where you run the ball 25 times, and the quarterback manages the offense, can be a recipe to win the Super Bowl and not just get there. It should be a great and exciting game.
Getting to coach Fernando Mendoza
It seems as if the Las Vegas Raiders’ signing of quarterback Geno Smith last year actually helped the team find its franchise signal-caller this year. Not only does minority owner Tom Brady get partial credit for Kubiak, but he’ll also look like the “GOAT” if Mendoza and Kubiak become a great match in Sin City.
Brady attended the 2026 CFP National Championship game to scout Mendoza, who was playing for the Indiana Hoosiers. Mendoza impressed as he sealed the game with a 4th and 5 scramble into the end zone for the game-clinching touchdown. The Hoosiers ended up winning the game, 27-21.
The GOAT was very impressed with how well Mendoza carried himself as a leader and how he reminded him of himself when he was a 7-time Super Bowl-winning QB.
Brady also knew that if the Raiders were going to take Mendoza in the April draft, that they would have to pair him with a young offensive coordinator who had a track record of developing young quarterbacks in the NFL. That’s why he went with the 38-year-old Kubiak.
Brady figured that if Kubiak could develop Sam Darnold into a Super Bowl-winning quarterback with his creative game plan, then why couldn’t he do it with Mendoza in Las Vegas?
What does the future hold?
Time will tell after the Super Bowl if Kubiak will swim comfortably with Mendoza and the Raiders, or sink the team further than their previous coach, Pete Carroll, did.
Raider Nation is starving for a championship, and that begins after the Super Bowl is over.
