SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Seattle Seahawks are approaching Super Bowl LX with the same focused mindset that carried them through the regular season, refusing to treat the championship game as anything bigger than the next opponent on the schedule.

Head coach Mike Macdonald has emphasized all year that one game is not more important than the next, and players insist that mantra holds true even on the NFL’s biggest stage. The Seahawks, NFC champions, will face the New England Patriots on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX from 11 years ago.

Devon Witherspoon, the Seahawks’ defensive back, said the team sticks to its routine regardless of the stakes.

“I mean, we just do what we do every other week,” Witherspoon said. “It’s another game on the schedule. We don’t change the way we do things, even though it’s the Super Bowl. We don’t factor that in, you know.”

Defensive lineman Leonard Williams echoed that approach, acknowledging the distractions of the big stage but stressing consistency in preparation.

“For me, I just want to try to treat it just like every other week,” Williams said. “There’s obviously a lot of distractions, a lot of noise, a lot of stuff going on here on the big stage. But I think our team, myself included, have been doing a good job of treating it just like every other week. We want to treat it the same. I want to make sure I’m taking care of my hydration, my diet, my body, getting my massages, getting my mental recovery, and all those things.”

If anything could shift the players’ perspective this week, it might be their varying levels of experience in the league. Linebacker Ernest Jones IV, who has Super Bowl experience from his time with the Los Angeles Rams when he was a rookie, has been a voice of perspective for the Seahawks’ younger players, reminding them that opportunities like this are rare.

“Just making sure we keep the main thing the main thing,” Jones said. “In different points of our journey that we’ve been in, they’ve been a constant voice for us, just keeping us going.”

The Seahawks’ defense, led by Macdonald — a defensive-minded head coach — aims to dominate and lift Seattle to victory in Super Bowl LX, their first appearance since the 2014 season and a chance for redemption against the Patriots.