{"id":464151,"date":"2026-02-12T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:16:08","slug":"sam-darnold-thanks-seahawks-for-believing-in-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464151\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold thanks Seahawks for believing in him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Darnold was a man of the people at Wednesday\u2019s championship celebration in Seattle. He held a beer in one hand and the Lombardi Trophy in the other as he briefly addressed not only the crowd but his haters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked a lot this last week about belief,\u201d Darnold said, via Brady Henderson of ESPN. \u201cA lot of people didn\u2019t believe in me<\/a>, but it didn\u2019t matter because the ones that are close believed in me, including you all. I appreciate you all so much. That short list also includes [team owner] Jody Allen, [General Manager] John Schneider, [coach] Mike Macdonald. I appreciate the belief you all had in me for signing me this past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd last but certainly not least, these players, man, for believing in me. I wouldn\u2019t be here without these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linebacker Ernest Jones IV wore a T-shirt depicting Darnold\u2019s likeness with a cigarette in his mouth, a beer in one hand and a raised middle finger in the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only do we have the best defense in the world, we got the best team in the world, and quite frankly, if you got anything to say for my quarterback, you got anything to say for my defense, you got anything to say for my O-line, and you got anything to say about the city of Seattle, I got two words for you: Fuck you!\u201d Jones said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks traded Geno Smith and signed Darnold to a three-year, $100.5 million contract in the 2025 offseason. He threw five touchdown passes with no interceptions in three postseason games after having 20 giveaways in the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold was a man of the people at Wednesday\u2019s championship celebration in Seattle. He held a beer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-464151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}