Mike Macdonald finally watched Seahawks' Super Bowl win on tape- once
On February 8, nearly all of Seattle tuned into televisions across the city to watch their team put one of the most legendary performances in Super Bowl history on tape. Despite leading the effort, Mike Macdonald didn’t even watch the Super Bowl LX tape himself. The Seattle Seahawks head coach just watched it for the first time this past week.
In an interview with Kay Adams at the NFL’s league meetings today, he said he finally got around to watching it- but only after getting tired of watching college players ahead of the draft. Legendary: Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald says he did NOT watch the Super Bowl film until 5 days ago because he knew he’d critique it too much. “We could’ve taken the back to the flat a couple of times.
And the 2 TD passes were a bummer. ” Macdonald is an absolute psycho 😭😭 (via… pic. twitter.
com/NjpMVT74PK — Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) March 31, 2026 “Full disclosure, I’ve only watched it once. ” In the week following the game, Macdonald told Brock & Salk he was hesitant to watch the tape after on the Seattle Sports Radio station- because with a coaches mindset, you’re always looking to improve, and he couldn’t see it any other way. This sentiment seems to have stayed with him, when compared with what he told Adams about watching it for the first time: “I love the idea of how we played from first-person watching the game, but when I watch it from the coach’s perspective, I can never really put my coach’s hat on, on my own, I critique it probably too hard, so I’m actually thinking of the plays that maybe we could’ve played better, you know?
” Coaches barely ever get a chance to feel satisfaction. It’s an extremely volatile field to work in, with little to no job security and immense pressure far more often giving it a daunting feeling than the slivers you get to enjoy in the rare instance you do win a championship. Although Macdonald is such a young head coach, he realizes that this moment is fleeting.