Winning the Super Bowl was the crowning achievement of Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold’s career, but that doesn’t mean he was happy with the way he played.
Darnold said on Bussin’ With The Boys that while his team got the win, he doesn’t think he was a major contributor to it, and he wishes he would have turned in a better performance on the game’s biggest stage.
“I didn’t play great in the Super Bowl.” Darnold said. “I missed way too many throws. We still won, our defense balled out, and I didn’t turn the ball over, which helped. But dude, to win the Super Bowl that way, I was kinda bummed. I want to score like 40 points, you know what I mean? I want to go out there and ball out, and it’s just, dang, I didn’t play my best football in the Super Bowl? That sucks.”
Darnold said he was kicking himself for plays that included missing an open Jaxon Smith-Njibga early in the game for what could have been a touchdown pass, failing to deliver on a potentially big deep ball to Rashid Shaheed, and misconnecting on what should have been an easy out route to Cooper Kupp.
“How am I gonna miss these throws right now? Are you kidding me?” Darnold said. “I was like, How the fuck did I miss that?”
Darnold wasn’t terrible in the Super Bowl, more like mediocre: He completed 19 of 38 passes for 202 yards, with one touchdown, one sack and no turnovers. On a day when running back Kenneth Walker turned in an MVP performance and the Seahawks’ defense shut down Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, a mediocre performance was enough for Darnold to earn a Super Bowl ring. But he would have liked to be better.
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