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\n The Seattle Seahawks much-lauded defense was as good as advertised Sunday in Santa Clara, completely dominating the game as they imposed their will on the New England Patriots, winning Super Bowl LX 29-13.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Seahawks defense swarmed all over the Patriots throughout, with New England quarterback Drake Maye barely having time to breathe in the pocket.\n <\/p>\n
\n Seattle forced Maye into three turnovers, a fumble and two interceptions, including one that was returned for a 45-yard touchdown by Uchenna Nwosu in a play that snuffed out any chance of a miracle Patriots\u2019 comeback.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Seahawks pass rush also racked up six sacks, completely stifling the Patriots\u2019 offense, which only managed five first downs through the first three quarters of the game before adding a couple late touchdowns when the game was out of reach.\n <\/p>\n
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\n \u201cI\u2019m not surprised. It\u2019s what they do,\u201d Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald told CNN Sports about the Pats powerhouse defense after the game.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe guys pick each other up every time. It\u2019s what we\u2019ve been doing since last year. It\u2019s awesome to do it on this stage.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n New England\u2019s defense played its part, keeping the Seattle offense largely under wraps for most of the night.\n <\/p>\n
\n Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold didn\u2019t light up the scoreboard, but the journeyman signal-caller managed the game well, passing for 202 yards and one touchdown.\n <\/p>\n
\n He gave credit to his parents for leading him to this moment.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSome people called me crazy throughout my career for believing in myself so much and having so much confidence,\u201d Darnold said after the victory.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut it was because of my parents, because of the way that they believed in me throughout my entire career. It allowed me to go out there and play free and have a ton of confidence.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Darnold didn\u2019t have to try to take more than the Patriots\u2019 defense gave him, thanks to a MVP-winning performance from running back Kenneth Walker III, who ran for 135 yards and had two catches for another 26 yards.\n <\/p>\n
\n Walker was forced to shoulder nearly the entire load for the Seattle run game after the team lost half of its rushing attack when Zach Charbonnet suffered a season-ending knee injury against the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round of the playoffs.\n <\/p>\n
\n Seattle\u2019s other secret weapon was its place-kicker, Jason Myers, who set a Super Bowl record with five field goals.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks much-lauded defense was as good as advertised Sunday in Santa Clara, completely dominating the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-463216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}