{"id":742319,"date":"2026-02-10T11:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:39:25","slug":"seahawks-had-a-tell-on-patriots-offense-in-super-bowl-defender-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742319\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks had a tell on Patriots offense in Super Bowl, defender claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots offense struggled mightily in Super Bowl LX, and throughout the day was seemingly one step behind the Seattle Seahawks defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon, that did not happen by accident. In fact, he claimed after the game that his team\u2019s film study revealed some clear tendencies his unit was keying in on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI knew what was going on,\u201d Witherspoon <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SiriusXMNFL\/status\/2020965933360283980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told<\/a> SiriusXM NFL Radio. \u201cWe had a good tell on what they like to do and how they like to play and how they were going to attack us. Coach put us in the best position to win. That\u2019s our coach right there, that\u2019s why we always stand beside him and always have his back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The tell that Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald and his staff uncovered could be found along the offensive line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe had a tell on their guards and their tackles, how they like to set, they\u2019re going to overset on certain rushes, they\u2019re going to fall for certain moves any time a group of guys get after them,\u201d Witherspoon added. \u201cI think we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What exactly the Seahawks zeroed in on is not known at this point in time. However, Yahoo Sports\u2019 Charles McDonald identified right guard Mike Onwenu as one potential source of information accidentally permeating from one side of the line of scrimmage to the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Patriots offensive ended up with a negative play rate of 13.4% on the day, going backward on nine of 67 defensive snaps. Those include six sacks of quarterback Drake Maye, who never got comfortable in the pocket and finished the game with two interceptions as well as a lost fumble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots offense struggled mightily in Super Bowl LX, and throughout the day was seemingly one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,52113,103282,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-742319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-first-read","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-super-bowl","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742319","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=742319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}