496: Super Bowl LX preview – Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 125 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Seattle Seahawks enter Super Bowl Sunday as heavy favorites against the New England Patriots, and the confidence level among the 12s is high. The Patriots path to victory appears razor-thin, relying heavily on Drake Maye's mobility, hopes for multiple Seattle turnovers, and the chance that Jaxon Smith-Njigba can somehow be stopped by this New England defense that has only faced two of the league's best wideouts this season. The Pats offensive line faces a nightmare matchup against Seattle's defensive front led by Leo Williams and DeMarcus Lawrence. The Patriots postseason run—featuring wins over injury-depleted teams and bottom-tier offensive lines—pales in comparison to Seattle's gauntlet through the NFC West.

Nick Emmanwori sustained an ankle injury this week, which does provide some concern for the defense. But we've seen how capable the depth of this defense was in dealing with Emmanwori's absense earlier in the season as well as the injury to Julian Love. Mike Macdonald should be able to plan around any limitations by the rookie defender. In an episode earlier this week, we enjoyed a guest with thoughful football analysis. In this show, we're getting into 'Know Your Rival' mode with one of the Patriots bitter rivals. Dolphins fan Sam Marcoux is back on the show to talk about everything we need to know about the Pats and their entitled fanbase.

Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak's impending departure to the Raiders has loomed over the leadup to this game. What potential impact could it actually have in this matchup? The NFL Honors ceremony was happening as we recorded and Jaxon Smith-Njigba was the only one to be awarded one of the top honors -- offensive player of the year. We discuss some of the wildest narratives and idiotic lines of questions in the Do Better Segment. Better at life honors go out to a group of monks and their walk for peace as well as the NFL for sending our NFC West rivals into a dangerous country to start the 2026 season.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Sea Hawkers podcast.
0:10.9	It is a live Super Bowl edition as we are on Adam, episode 496.
0:19.9	Appreciate everybody joining us out here live.
0:22.5	NFL honors happening right now.
0:25.1	And I'm just expecting without even looking that our Seahawks will just probably
0:29.0	claim every single reward out there, Adam.
0:31.2	Hey, they ought to.
0:32.5	It's been a hell of a year in episode 496.
0:36.4	Going to bring in championship number two for this team.
0:39.8	I like it, man.
0:40.9	This is fun.
0:41.7	I've been looking forward to this show all week.
0:44.2	I know you guys got to do preview for what if with Mr.
0:47.6	Phil and Clinton.
0:49.4	And so you've been talking about this a little bit.
0:52.3	And man, there's a lot to go over within this game.
0:55.8	And lots of reasons to be excited.
0:58.1	I think reasons to be confident.
1:00.4	I think that it's also a real team we're facing.
1:04.8	They're not the Niners.
1:06.2	But I think that this is going to be a game that when we look back on it, it's going to be a fun, fun ride in and with the Lombardi in the hands of the Seattle Seahawks.
1:16.6	I'm fired up for, man.
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