Mike Macdonald on Seahawks' defensive play in Super Bowl 60
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Through three quarters, it seemed as though Super Bowl 60 was going to be a shutout for the first time in NFL history, but the Seattle defense let up a little bit in the fourth quarter.
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It was an all-time great performance for the Seahawks defense, stifling a No. 2 offense in the New England Patriots. It really wasn’t a change of pace from what Seattle has been doing all season.
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The defense was consistently ranked near the top of the league in most statistical categories. Their DVOA ranking, or “Defense-adjusted Value Over Average,” put them among the top five defenses in modern NFL history.
The architect of that defense is head coach Mike Macdonald, who became the first defensive play-caller to win the Lombardi Trophy as head coach. He addressed the media on Monday, a day after his Seahawks flew to a 29-13 victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl 60.
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“I told the team on Saturday night that I got a bad habit of hemming and hawing in my office with the rest of our coaching staff, thinking about plays, and what we’re gonna run, and how it’s gonna go. Then you get around the guys, and all of a sudden all those worries go away magically. That speaks toward how they played,” Macdonald told reporters of the defense.
“It became very clear very early that they were a determined bunch, that we were going to play our style of ball last night. At that point, the plays became really irrelevant, it was really the style of how the guys played. Just to play that relentlessly throughout the game was really impressive. Really proud of those guys. That was a remarkable game by our defense.”