Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl LX: Final Score

What happened in the Super Bowl and what do Seahawks fans think about it?

For my entire life I’ve been hearing that the ‘85 Bears are the best football team of all-time. It’s never mattered how long it’s been since that season….“‘85 Bears, ‘85 Bears, ‘85 Bears”. I don’t even think that team in San Francisco is as connected to a two-digit number as that franchise and “85”.

The ‘85 Bears have always been on top of the conversation as the greatest team and why do you think that is? Oh sure, “Super Bowl shuffle” and dominating Tecmo Bowl and the legend of Refrigerator Perry all put the ‘85 Chicago Bears into the national consciousness for decades and that’s WHY we always think of them when people ponder the greatest teams of all-time.

But none of those things matter, or even exist in the annals of NFL history, if the Bears don’t absolutely PASTE the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX.

It’s been 40 years since the ‘85 Bears defense dominated the Patriots in a Super Bowl and maybe 40 years from now football fans will still be talking about the 2025 SEAHAWKS (‘the ‘25 Hawks) in a similar light among the all-time greats.

The Seahawks beat the Patriots 29-13 and though the score looks moderately close on paper, but the game was decidedly not.

The final team stats are too misleading to share because although the Patriots finished with 18 first downs, 331 total yards, and actually ended up with more yards per play than Seattle, the game was well out of reach when the Seahawks started to let up with a 19-0 fourth quarter lead.

This was not going to be a repeat of 28-3.

The best defense in the NFL this season, a team that had to win the NFC West by defeating the only other teams in the conference that won 12 games, and went 4-0 against the Rams and 49ers in a 5-game stretch leading into the Super Bowl, the Seahawks sacked Drake Maye six times, intercepted him twice, forced him to fumble once, held New England’s running backs to 42 yards, and pressured the quarterback on practically every dropback.

Byron Murphy had two sacks and a fumble recovery; Derick Hall had two sacks; Julian Love had an interception; Uchenna Nwosu had a pick-six off a disruption by Devon Witherspoon, who also had a sack and three QB hits; Rylie Mills had a sack.

The “‘25 Hawks” may not have seemed to most like a legendary all-time defense on the same level as those Bears, but the ‘85 Bears weren’t “the ‘85 Bears” until and unless they won a Super Bowl and dominated in it. We don’t know yet how people will be talking about Murphy or Witherspoon 10 years from now, but they’ve certainly got people talking tonight.

Kenneth Walker III: Super Bowl LX MVP

Walker rushed for 135 yards on 27 carries, as noted on the broadcast as the most yards on the ground in a Super Bowl since Terrell Davis, and took home an MVP trophy when no single defensive player could take credit for the domination of Drake Maye.

I’d be remiss to not bring up the 2022 offseason series that I did on Walker, covering every single game he played in college between Wake Forest and Michigan State, and at the time it was practically controversial to suggest that the best pick the Seahawks made that year was a second round running back.

It’s still controversial to say that running backs matter.

Well look, you could make good arguments for Charles Cross and Abe Lucas or even Riq Woolen as the best pick in 2022, but Walker has arrived as being every bit as good in the NFL as he was with Michigan State when he rushed for over 1,600 yards and 18 touchdowns in 12 games.

A SECOND ROUND RUNNING BACK is now the first Super Bowl MVP in 28 years.

A Seaside Joe victory lap? Don’t mind if we do.

A legendary run by John Schneider

If I count 10 ways that the Seahawks have fleeced the NFL in the last four years, I’m bound to still overlook quite a few other examples. But I’ll try:

• Traded Russell Wilson for two firsts and two seconds in 2022 (and ESPN’s Bill Barnwell said that they had the WORST offseason that year)

• The 2022 draft class (Cross, Walker, Lucas, Woolen, Bryant, etc.)

• The 2023 draft class (Witherspoon, JSN, Charbonnet, Hall, etc.)

• Traded for Leonard Williams in 2023 (and were clowned for overpaying)

• Hired Mike Macdonald in 2024

• The 2024 draft class (Byron Murphy, AJ Barner, etc)

• Traded for Ernest Jones in 2024

• Hired Klint Kubiak in 2025

• The 2025 draft class (Zabel, Emmanwori, etc.)

• Traded for Rashid Shaheed in 2025

That’s just 10 off the dome. Oh yeah, traded Geno Smith (called a “terrible move”) and DK Metcalf.

The Seahawks went 7-10 in 2021 and even if Russell Wilson’s injury was a big reason for losing, can you imagine the 2025 Seahawks going 7-10 without Sam Darnold for three games? No way. Not happening. Seattle just wasn’t that good a few years ago.

Then they were decent.

Then they were good last year, but still a little overrated.

But as 2025 rolled on, the Seahawks got better by the week. Noticeably better every single week and THAT is how you become a legendary team like the ‘85 Bears. It’s not just being the same level of good every single day, it’s about being better every single day than you were yesterday and that’s what Mike Macdonald and John Schneider have been doing for the last 24 months:

Setting a standard to never stop getting better.

To become great in the eyes of everyone, the Seahawks had to win the Super Bowl. To become the greatest, the Seahawks had to win the Super Bowl like that.

The mistake that some of those teams of the past made was that they went into “shuffle” mode. The ‘25 Seahawks would prefer to be put on repeat.

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