Welcome to the Dark Side: Seattle’s brutal, Super Bowl-winning defense is here to stay

Andrew Lawrence in Santa Clara Tue, 10 February 2026 at 10:00 am UTC·6 min read Super Bowl LX was a two-score game with less than five minutes remaining. New England had the ball on the Seahawks’ 44-yard line and – after reaching the end zone in the fourth quarter, finally – that familiar sense of possibility. But that quickly vaporized when Devon Witherspoon knifed in on a corner blitz and jarred the ball loose from the Patriots quarterback, Drake Maye, mid-throw. Uchenna Nwosu snatched it in stride and rumbled 45 yards to the end zone, sealing Seattle’s 29‑13 victory. That the league’s top defense was able to punctuate this moment, more than a decade in the making, with an interception as...