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Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald is still basking in his Super Bowl win, but isn’t too eager to give the game a second look.
Macdonald led a rapid turnaround in Seattle that was capped off with the team’s resounding win over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Despite earning accolades for the win, Macdonald said he is keeping some distance from the game itself.
Mike Macdonald Not Ready for Second Watch
When asked by reporters this week whether he’s had time to review game film from the Super Bowl, Macdonald revealed that he still hasn’t watched it back.
“Still haven’t. No,” he said at the NFL combine, via the News Tribune.
Macdonald admitted that he would still be wound too tightly
“I’m a psycho,” he told reporters. “And, yeah, it’s like, it’s a weird, like, sensation: Yeah, maybe I gotta let it cool down, I guess.”
Macdonald said when he’s finally ready to re-watch the Super Bowl, he doesn’t want to watch the all-22 game film version.
“Actually, I’m gonna watch the TV copy,” he said. “Which I’ve never watched, a TV copy of a game.”
Though the broadcast version of the Super Bowl won’t have the vantage point for him to dissect defenses or study what worked on offense, Macdonald revealed that it had another important aspect that he missed from the sidelines.
“I want to watch the commercials,” Macdonald said.
Mike Macdonald Still Taking it All In
Macdonald also told reporters that it has been “surreal” in the wake of his Super Bowl win, saying it hasn’t fully sunk in.
“It will kind of unravel, I’m assuming, over time, where you can kind of go back and really cherish the memories,” he said. “And obviously those are the things that you think about.”
Macdonald added that he doesn’t have too much time to dwell on it, with a new NFL year about to start and the team facing some key decisions on free agency and then the NFL Draft.
“But, life happens fast. There’s not as much time as you want to celebrate. The calendar rolls on,” he said. “That’s what our focus is right now.”
The next steps could include a decision on Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III, who is set to hit free agency. Seahawks general manager John Schneider said the team hoped to have him back next season, but it wasn’t within their control.
“We’d love to have Ken back, and he knows this better than anybody — it’s about our 70 and our collective and what that’s going to look like,” Schneider said, via ESPN’s Brady Henderson.
The team could also face another decision — whether to accept a visit to the White House. Macdonald said his team had not yet formally received an invitation, but would decide what to do once it happened.
“I would hope so,” Macdonald said on the possibility of a White House visit. “I mean, yeah. . . . I don’t know. We’re going to get an invite, right? That’s how it works? Not really sure how it works.”