{"id":687678,"date":"2026-01-19T01:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:53:40","slug":"sam-darnold-deserves-respect-afte-journey-from-jets-to-seahawks-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687678\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold deserves respect afte journey from Jets to Seahawks leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 It was a surreal scene taking place in the home team interview room Saturday night in the bowels of Lumen Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks had just <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/17\/sports\/seahawks-dominate-49ers-to-reach-first-nfc-title-game-since-2014\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled the 49ers 41-6<\/a> in an NFC divisional round game. Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold stood at the podium answering questions about winning his first career playoff game and how he\u2019d led Seattle to the NFC Championship game, one win away from a Super Bowl berth.<\/p>\n<p>While Darnold answered questions, sitting in the front row of the room was defensive end Leonard Williams, who was due up next to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>The two players were teammates on the Jets in 2018 and \u201919 during dark times around a franchise that hasn\u2019t found any light since both departed the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 It was a surreal scene taking place in the home team interview room Saturday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,255,6,84,1878,238,237,261,2635,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-687678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-york-jets","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-playoffs","12":"tag-sam-darnold","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115919271182355852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}