The Seattle Seahawks organization has almost fully shifted gears from celebration of a league championship to the roster construction phases that are vital to being competitive for the very next season. The 2026 NFL Draft is just a hair past three weeks from now, after all.
Despite that, head coach Mike Macdonald revealed to Kay Adams (on the Up and Adams Show) that he didn’t review the tape against the New England Patriots until over a month after the big game!
“I’m weird and I love the idea of how we played from, like, first-person watching the game, but when I watch it from the coach’s perspective I inevitably put my coach’s hat on and I critique it probably too hard,” Macdonald said on why it took him so long.
For a coach and tactician who is famous for being well-prepared and meticulous, it’s a funny proclamation. To be focused in on areas of improvement shows that he is a maniac. That’s served him well so far.
Now, before anyone gets bent out of shape about this, just keep in mind that:
A). Macdonald is a brilliant coach, who brought up many situations, as well as the intent behind them and how they played out across a wide breadth of interviews, post-Lombardi win.
B). He has a team of people that help to analyze and feed that data into evaluations.
C). The man may be a perfectionist and sounds like he wanted to wait as long as possible before tainting the memory a dominant Super Bowl win.
Still, you’d think he would’ve decided to finally give his (likely) life’s greatest professional accomplishment a good rewatch sooner than a matter of days, not weeks ago. His number one scoring defense led the way on a team that made a resounding statement in a 29-13 triumph.
Maybe it’s the fact that the final score doesn’t even fully encapsulate the level of beatdown that the game felt like for long, long stretches. Hmm…
Either way, Mike Macdonald is a Super Bowl-winning coach and a very unique individual.
