A lot of the 70,823 crowd appeared to favour Seattle, who got here into the sport as slim favourites, and their win additionally means quarterback Sam Darnold accomplished his redemption story after being written off as a beginning NFL quarterback.
The Seahawks are Darnold’s fifth staff in his eight-year profession – and third in three years – however in his first yr in Seattle the previous third total draft decide has gained the sport’s largest prize.
The 28-year-old has been haunted by a remark he made as he struggled in a recreation in opposition to the Patriots in 2019, when he mentioned “I am seeing ghosts”, however Darnold has now exorcised these demons.
As an alternative, it was Maye who suffered a nightmare when confronted with the quick, bodily defence that Durde and coach Macdonald have usual of their two seasons collectively in Seattle.
Such is the breadth and depth of the risk it carries that Devon Witherspoon claimed a sack from cornerback. He, Derick Corridor and Rylie Mills solely registered 2.5 sacks between all of them season however all three acquired to Maye within the first half.
The Patriots earned solely 4 first downs earlier than the interval and 52 yards in complete. Some merciless people on social media even joked that Dangerous Bunny gained extra yards as he carried a ball throughout his half-time present.
Corridor’s second sack compelled a fumble which was recovered by Byron Murphy, who additionally sacked Maye twice because the Darkish Aspect wrote themselves into Seattle folklore alongside the ‘Legion of Increase’, the defence that led the Seahawks to their earlier Tremendous Bowl win in 2014.
“My team-mates and my coaches, they believed in me,” Darnold instructed NBC.
“For the reason that first coaching camp, each single day we got here to work. Shout-out to our offensive line for every little thing they did within the recreation. However I’ve additionally acquired to shout out our defence.
“We did it. It has been such a particular journey with these guys. A lot arduous work has been out into this and we did it.”