The Seattle Seahawks’ defensive game plan against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 is slowly becoming the stuff of legend.
The Seahawks rendered the Patriots’ offense helpless on Sunday in a 29-13 win at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. Despite his box score numbers looking somewhat passable, Drake Maye had one of the worst games of his young career on the Super Bowl stage.
Seahawks safety Julian Love chalked it up to Maye being a “classic young quarterback” that a well-coached team like Seattle could take advantage of. The NFL released Love’s mic’d up comments on Maye during the game that point to the Seahawks being all over Maye’s tendencies.
The clip showed Love telling fellow safety Coby Bryant about a tell in Maye’s game that they could jump on.
“Classic young quarterback,” Love told Bryant.
“As soon as that back foot hits, he’s going to where he wants, but he’s pausing for a second to confirm that [the receiver is] open. He’s not blindly doing it like Stafford. There’s like a little hitch there. Be sure you jump that.”
#Seahawks S Julian Love before his INT of Drake Maye in the Super Bowl:
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“Classic young quarterback. As soon as the back foot hits, he’s going to where he wants, but he’s pausing for a second to confirm he’s open. He’s not blindly doing it like Stafford.”pic.twitter.com/GSofZP93Ut
True enough, Love took his own advice and jumped a pass in the fourth quarter for an interception that stopped the Patriots’ momentum for a late comeback. Maye then committed another “classic young quarterback” mistake on New England’s following drive, giving up a pick-six to Seahawks linebacker Uchenna Nwosu that virtually ended the game.
SEAHAWKS DEFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN FOR UCHENNA NWOSU OMG
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Maye wasn’t the only one the Seahawks had a great read on. During his postgame interview, Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon revealed that his team had identified a “tell” that doomed the Patriots before the Super Bowl even began.
