DeMarcus Lawrence made a Super Bowl-winning adjustment on the most pivotal play of the NFC Championship Game.
It’s Friday! The Seattle Seahawks are prepping for the Super Bowl, but they might not have gotten there if DeMarcus Lawrence didn’t help out Julian Love on the game-deciding 4th down stop of Matthew Stafford in the NFC Championship Game. Sean McVay called the coverage a “fortuitous bust,” while Mike Macdonald was going, “Where’s the end?” as the play was unfolding. Now we get to read and hear from Lawrence himself and what he saw that made him ad-lib a pass rush into covering Kyren Williams out in the flat.
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Now, let’s get to the Links to wrap up the week.
Seattle Seahawks News
Winning Executive Of The Year, Mike Macdonald Has Done ‘Amazing’ Job Preparing For Super Bowl & More From John Schneider’s Press Conference – Seahawks.com
Seahawks general manager/president of football operations John Schneider met with the media on Thursday.
Seahawks team barber prepares to head to Super Bowl – KING-5
Efren Garibay has been cutting the hair of Seahawks players throughout this season and is heading to the Super Bowl to give them cuts ahead of the big game.
How ‘Law Logic,’ Not A ‘Fortuitous Bust’ Helped DeMarcus Lawrence Make A Play That Helped Him Reach His First Super Bowl – Seahawks.com
DeMarcus Lawrence will play in the first Super Bowl of his 12-year career because of an instinctual play that helped the Seahawks win the NFC championship game.
10 big plays that defined the Seahawks season-long run to the Super Bowl – Tacoma News Tribune
The Seahawks have run 1,132 plays on offense this season. They have defended 1,183 snaps. Throw in 139 punts, 141 kick-off returns and 84 field-goal attempts, and you’ve got a total of more than 2,500 football plays spread across 19 total games. Only an obsessed lunatic or abject moron would choose to sift through all of those in the belief that they could determine which were most important to Seattle reaching its fourth Super Bowl.
Finding Future Seahawks – Senior Bowl Day 2 Standouts – Seahawks Forever
Dan Viens, Brandon Cain, and Field Gulls’ Bryce Coutts discuss what they saw in Day 2 of Senior Bowl practice
I’m not gonna lie about the Patriots – Seaside Joe
Sports will always have upsets, shockers, and surprises, but I won’t lie about who these two Super Bowl teams really are
2026 Senior Bowl practise notes (day two) — an alpha emerges – Seahawks Draft Blog
It’s really quite simple, I think, when it comes to Seattle’s off-season. Now that we know they’ll pick 31st or 32nd overall, they have to scour the trade market to start with. If no attractive deal emerges and they end up keeping their top pick, they should obviously take whoever grades highest on their board.
NFC West News
Source: 49ers interview three candidates for defensive coordinator position – NBC Sports Bay Area
The process for the 49ers to replace Robert Saleh as defensive coordinator has started.
Rams hiring Browns’ Bubba Ventrone as special teams coordinator – NFL.com
The Rams have turned to a veteran coach to fix their special teams woes. Los Angeles is hiring Bubba Ventrone as its special teams coordinator, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported on Thursday.
Cardinals’ head-coach waiting game is a serious gamble – Arizona Sports
Just when you thought the Arizona Cardinals’ head-coaching search may be coming to a close, they pull you right back in.
Category: General Sports
