Seahawks stifle Drake Maye, Patriots to capture Super Bowl LX - ESPN

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The best team in the NFL spent the 2025 season hiding in plain sight. Led by defense and special teams, armed with a quarterback nobody believed in and run by a 38-year-old, second-year coach whose personality remains opaque to almost everyone outside of his building, the Seattle Seahawks kept their heads down and kept winning.

Preseason expectations did not shine on Seattle the way they did on the two better-known offensive mainstays in their own division. As late as mid-December, it was the division rival Rams who were being hailed as the Super Bowl favorites. Seattle's wild Week 16 comeback victory over those Rams was dismissed as fluky, even as it set them up in full control of the NFC playoff race.

But Sunday night, in the home stadium of the division rival 49ers, the Seahawks smothered the New England Patriots 29-13 to claim the second Super Bowl title in franchise history and put an emphatic championship stamp on a season nobody but them saw coming.

«You talk about a group of guys who battle every day, who believe in each other, believe in their coach,» star cornerback Devon Witherspoon told NBC after the game. «I mean, you can't describe this group no better. It's just a one-of-a kind feeling.»

Seattle's dominant defensive front was a bad matchup for Drake Maye and a Patriots offense that came into the Super Bowl struggling. Eight of the Patriots' first nine possessions Sunday ended with a punt, and the other ended with a kneel-down to close the first half. When the third quarter finished, the Patriots had 78 yards of total offense and as many first downs — five — as the Seahawks had sacks.

«I've always felt like this year I never had to force anything,» Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold said