Super Bowl 61: Can Seahawks Defense Break Drake Maye — Is Sam Darnold Ready for Glory | The Audible
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In This Episode: On this Super Bowl 61 edition of The Audible, Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom deliver the definitive preview of Seahawks vs. Patriots — a matchup loaded with storylines, pressure, and two completely different paths to the big game. Seattle brings a world‑class, suffocating defense that has bullied elite quarterbacks all season, but can they actually shut down Drake Maye, the rookie phenom who has carried New England to the brink of a championship.
Then the guys flip to the other sideline: Sam Darnold, the former first‑rounder turned journeyman, now one win away from rewriting his entire NFL legacy. Can he go from "what could've been" to Super Bowl champion. And how does Seattle structure an offense around him that can survive Bill Belichick's successor and a Patriots defense built to confuse.
Cecil and Bloom also break down how the Patriots offense can move the ball with Maye — quick game, tempo, Rhamondre Stevenson, and the matchup advantages New England must lean on to keep the rookie upright.
🔥 In this episode:
Can Seattle's elite defense finally crack Drake Maye
Is Sam Darnold ready for the biggest moment of his career
How the Patriots offense manufactures yards against a brutal Seahawks unit
Which matchup decides the Lombardi Trophy
Who Cecil & Bloom believe walks out of Super Bowl 61 as champion
A dominant defense, a rising superstar, and a quarterback chasing redemption — Super Bowl 61 has everything.
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| 0:00.0 | We did it, you guys. |
| 0:01.9 | We are here for you. |
| 0:04.2 | Who wins Super Bowl 61, the Seattle Seahawks or the New England Patriots, all that, and more on today's edition of the Audible. |
| 0:14.1 | You got a team. |
| 0:15.5 | Here's a word of the wise. |
| 0:16.5 | You want to dominate your league. |
| 0:17.9 | Go to football guys. |
| 0:19.4 | Football. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm living in a fantasy |
| 0:21.3 | got everybody mad at me football because every game i had to win |
| 0:26.5 | football i got to be a champion |
| 0:28.8 | i'm living in a fantasy |
| 0:31.4 | uh breathe it in sigman breathe it. We don't do recap shows, |
| 0:37.8 | because if we did, |
| 0:38.7 | I might not have been very nice |
| 0:40.6 | after the AMC championship game, |
| 0:42.8 | but we're here at the Super Bowl. |
| 0:45.0 | Can you believe it, |
| 0:45.6 | Bloom, |
| 0:45.9 | after all the entire season goes on? |
| 0:48.7 | And we never go away. |
| 0:49.8 | There's never an off season |
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