said on Bussin\u2019 With The Boys<\/a> that while his team got the win, he doesn\u2019t think he was a major contributor to it, and he wishes he would have turned in a better performance on the game\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t play great in the Super Bowl.\u201d Darnold said. \u201cI missed way too many throws. We still won, our defense balled out, and I didn\u2019t turn the ball over, which helped. But dude, to win the Super Bowl that way, I was kinda bummed. I want to score like 40 points, you know what I mean? I want to go out there and ball out, and it\u2019s just, dang, I didn\u2019t play my best football in the Super Bowl? That sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Darnold said he was kicking himself for plays that included missing an open Jaxon Smith-Njibga early in the game for what could have been a touchdown pass, failing to deliver on a potentially big deep ball to Rashid Shaheed, and misconnecting on what should have been an easy out route to Cooper Kupp.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow am I gonna miss these throws right now? Are you kidding me?\u201d Darnold said. \u201cI was like, How the fuck did I miss that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Darnold wasn\u2019t terrible in the Super Bowl, more like mediocre: He completed 19 of 38 passes for 202 yards, with one touchdown, one sack and no turnovers. On a day when running back Kenneth Walker turned in an MVP performance and the Seahawks\u2019 defense shut down Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, a mediocre performance was enough for Darnold to earn a Super Bowl ring. But he would have liked to be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winning the Super Bowl was the crowning achievement of Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold\u2019s career, but that doesn\u2019t mean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-727137","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\/727137","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=727137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}