{"id":740171,"date":"2026-02-09T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740171\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:06:18","slug":"see-the-seahawks-stop-the-run-and-win-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740171\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Seahawks stop the run and win the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defense doesn&#8217;t often take center stage in the Super Bowl, but the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3767a23c-a17d-294f-288a-9086ad1f0680\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-seahawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>&#8216; unit took over in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/matchup\/_\/gameId\/401772988\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29-13 win<\/a> against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0078f353-fe3e-67ed-a42c-43cca0568e21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ne\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots were scoreless in their 10 possessions of the game, tying the Colts (Super Bowl III) for the fourth-longest drought to begin a Super Bowl, according to Elias Sports Bureau. The Seahawks&#8217; defense held the Patriots to four first downs, 51 total yards, 2.0 yards per play and three sacks in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>We captured the plays that secured the Seahawks their second Super Bowl win.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/_end_rule.png\" width=\"100%\"\/><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"380\" width=\"570\"\/>New England Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson is swarmed by Seattle Seahawks defenders during the first half.\u00a0Chris Torres\/EPA via Shutterstock<img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"600\" width=\"570\"\/>Seattle Seahawks nose tackle Jarran Reed celebrates during the first half. The Seahawks had six sacks during the game, one shy of the Super Bowl record.\u00a0AP Photo\/Brynn Anderson<img data-default-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1612506_749x500cc.gif\" class=\" lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\"\/>Rylie Mills pushed through his block, tackling two players and then sacked Patriots quarterback Drake Maye in the first half. Despite a slow offensive start, the Seahawks&#8217; defense held the Patriots scoreless in the first half.\u00a0AP Photos\/Matt Slocum, Doug Benc and Morry Gash<img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"375\" width=\"570\"\/>Seattle Seahawks defenders surround and sack Drake Maye in the second half to continue a game of dominant defense.\u00a0Reuters\/Carlos Barria<img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"504\" width=\"570\"\/>Seattle Seahawks safety Julian Love celebrates with teammates after intercepting a pass.\u00a0AP Photo\/Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez<img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"1258\" width=\"570\"\/>Seahawks Devon Witherspoon forced a fumble against Drake Maye in the fourth quarter that was then picked up by linebacker Uchenna Nwosu, above, and returned for a touchdown.\u00a0Top: Thearon W. Henderson\/Getty Images. Bottom: AP Photo\/Doug Benc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defense doesn&#8217;t often take center stage in the Super Bowl, but the Seattle Seahawks&#8216; unit took over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-740171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116040590930464815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740171","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=740171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}