The first person Mike Macdonald called after being hired as the Seattle Seahawks’ head coach two years ago was Leslie Frazier. They had overlapped for one season in Baltimore in 2016. Macdonald was 36 then, a fast-rising defensive assistant still learning how the league worked. Frazier was 64, a grizzled NFL lifer with nearly two decades of experience who was charged with coaching the Ravens’ safeties. The age gap hardly mattered. There was an immediate connection, Frazier said. His experience also told him that Macdonald had the kind of presence that carries a coach far: a natural way with people, ideas that made sense, and — most importantly — ideas players respected. Sunday night in Santa...
