Sam Darnold’s Media Day comment that will leave Seahawks fans speechless 

Members of the media had to be chomping at the bit to get the Seattle Seahawks in front of cameras and ask them the question that everyone has been waiting to ask since the Seahawks last Super Bowl appearance.

Butler spoils Seattle’s Super Bowl

If you somehow forgot what happened in the Seahawks last Super Bowl appearance back in the 2014 season, ask a person from Seattle. If you can’t find one, here is a reminder. Seattle, on the one yard line, down by four, needing a touchdown with one of the best running backs in the league in the backfield in Marshawn Lynch. Russell Wilson drops back to pass, and throws a quick pass to Ricardo Lockette on a slant pattern and Malcolm Butler swoops in to pick off the pass.

Drive over. Game over. The Seahawks were left scratching their heads wondering what happened as the New England Patriots swarmed the field before kneeling out the clock and winning their fourth Super Bowl in franchise history.

The Seahawks had been to the playoffs six times since the 2014 season, but never got past the Divisional Round of the playoffs since that fateful day from State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Now Seattle is back in the Super Bowl, and before they step on the field this Sunday, they had to get through Media Day at Levi’s Stadium.

Same gameplan for Sam

If my notes are correct, then there is no one left from the 2014 Seahawks roster on this year’s Seahawks roster, but that didn’t stop reporters from asking the inevitable question. Sam Darnold was asked about it as soon as he sat down. One reporter asked “Thirty seconds on the clock, you’re on the one yard line. Are you going to run or are you going to throw a slant route?”

Darnold responded, “I know that’s a sore subject for a lot of people. We’ll say pass. No timeouts? You don’t want to get stuffed. Maybe you run it and you get on the ball and throw it really quickly if you don’t make it, but its tough to get those big guys back up after being down there on the one yard line… As a quarterback I got to say pass.”

It’s a dark moment in Seattle sports history, but Darnold and the Seahawks have a chance to heal some of the scars left from the last Super Bowl. As chance would have it they, have an opportunity to avenge that Super Bowl against the team that beat them 11 years ago.

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