FOXBORO — The Seahawks apparently had some assist with their blitzes in the Super Bowl.
Instantly after successful Super Bowl LX 29-13, cornerback Devon Witherspoon advised SiriusXM NFL Radio that Seahawks primarily knew what the Patriots had been going to do on offense based mostly on the way in which their offensive linemen had been positioned.
“I knew what was happening,” Witherspoon stated. “We had a great inform on what they love to do and the way they prefer to play and the way they had been going to assault us. Coach put us in the perfect place to win. That’s our coach proper there, that’s why we at all times stand beside him and at all times have his again.”
“We had a inform on their guards and their tackles, how they prefer to set, they’re going to overset on sure rushes, they’re going to fall for sure strikes any time a bunch of fellows get after them, and immediately I feel we did that,” Witherspoon added.
Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel was requested about Witherspoon’s feedback on Tuesday afternoon, when the workforce was in Gillette Stadium for locker room cleanout.
“I imply, that inform is there each week the place a man’s stance is a bit of completely different,” Vrabel stated. “We went the entire season, Morgan Moses was in the identical stance after we threw the ball, and we threw it fairly good. Once we run it, guys attempt to be in the identical stances. We wish to attempt to be as constant as we probably can. I feel on some down-and-distances, guys may be in two-point stances. We’ve got sure guidelines there in third down, or should you’re on the open aspect, you’re away from a good finish, and I feel that these issues are fairly constant. If there have been moments the place they knew we had been going to throw the ball then, I don’t know, you’d have to offer me the precise concept of when the nickel thought we had been throwing it.”
Witherspoon was one of many Seahawks’ stars of the sport with a sack and two QB hits, one in every of which led to an interception from Patriots QB Drake Maye.
