NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Seahawks-Patriots Kickoff Recap!

Episode Date: September 10, 2026

Gregg Rosenthal and Jourdan Rodrigue recap the defensive battle between the Patriots and Seahawks that kicked off the 2026 NFL season in Seattle.NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Did he keep his toes in? Did he keep his toes in? He did. It's intercepted in the end zone. The third pick of the night by the seal. Coaches are going absolutely nuts in the booth next to us. Welcome to NFL Daily. That was Steve Rable.

That was the Seattle Seahawks winning the kickoff game. In very similar fashion, to the way they ended last season, at least giving Steve Rable a holy catfish call at the end, dominating on defense, not so much on offense because they had lost their quarterback, Sam Darnold, earlier in the game. But I'm with Jordan Roderig.

We are talking about a regular season football game, and we are still talking about this Seattle defense. We'll get to the darnold of it all, and Drake May going interception, interception, interception in the fourth quarter, and what a disastrous loss. it is for New England, but I know you, Jordan, and I know you just want to start by giving some flowers to the defense that won them the Super Bowl a year ago. Yeah, absolutely.

Notable about Drake May's three interceptions was per next gen, all of them were on pass attempts of 15 plus yards. And otherwise, when he threw underneath, which was really the only thing that was working against this Seattle defense, the way that they played, he was 22 for 25. 159 at yards and a touchdown. So throwing middle to deep did not work for Drake May because that's just what this Seahawks defense

does. Greg, I showed you my sheet. I saved a card, a card entirely for Seattle's defense tonight to see, to fill it up with moments where they were simply exceptional and I had one space left and we were on the live stream getting ready and I said, Greg, I've got,

it's a final drive for the Patriots, I've got one spot left at the bottom of my card and look what happens. Josh, Joe. just exceptional body control to toe tap that in and come up with the interception that sealed the game. Yeah, I think so many things about this game. It was fascinating for the Patriots to be up 10 points with Sam Darnal going out on the fifth play for the Seahawks offense with a hip injury. He did not return. We'll break down what that could mean long term for the Seahawks later.

We'll see what they say post game. We're taping this right after the game. they have a touchdown lead with the ball driving in the fourth quarter to start and that's when the interceptions happen. But I want you to go through one or two of those plays as we go. But I do think it's worth mentioning like the first interception, the Narimae Pritchett interception is an absolutely incredible individual play where Romeo Dobbs, who was a disaster tonight for the Patriots, didn't make a great effort on it. the Julian Love interception was an absolutely great play.

And then that last interception, it's one thing to run the route like the receiver. It's another thing to go high point the ball, get your feet down. Like these guys, even the third, fourth guys that you think of when you think about this defense like Job and Pritcher get it done. In fact, we're the only show here that can go and give highlights right off the bat.

I want to actually hear that Julian Love interception, taking it back to the fourth quarter. Actually, I'm going to switch that up. Let's go to the Naramaya Pritchett interception because that brings us to the start of the fourth quarter. The Patriots are driving, and this is really where the beginning of the end for this Patriots offense in Drake May's night starts.

Let's hear that Pritchett interception. May under center. Playfake to Kiner this time. May hits his back foot. He's going to let it fly down the near side. Reaching up, tipping it up, intercepting it. Coming back to the near side. It's Pritching coming up the near side.

line across the 20 to 25, 30 stumbles down to 35. Great coverage, tool coverage, two-man coverage downfield. I love that. And it's funny to think where we were at the beginning of the fourth quarter when we're like, we have no highlights to this game. And it did end in very Seattle fashion. Like what got you going watching this secondary do their thing late in the game? Just the control, the body control, the hand-eye coordination at full speed.

That was a rule of cool interception as well as just a really, really sick, awesome play. Truly, I mean, it was to me, when we talk a lot about really good defense, as we talk about, to me, how in control they can keep their bodies when they're going at full speed and when their brains are moving a million miles an hour, diagnosing things. The Seahawks did a lot of different things tonight with pressure. They had to try to just confuse and mix up Drake May.

They were playing some cloudier coverages at times. They were rotating players. And they were relying on deeper reserve guys because Nickyman Worry was injured. And so this to me was an example of just really talent and depth and really good coaching of technique. And just a really, really solid, just relentless effort because it really wasn't like this for a while in this game. And then these defensive backs just started really showing up. And Drake May was testing them and did not pass the test there. No, he did not.

that I think all three were bad decisions. The first one's a jump ball to Romeo Dobbs. The third is a disastrous decision. Julian Love made a nice play on the second one, but maybe got confused. And Douglas fell in the play. I might argue with you on the second one, because I think all the pressure they had been sending

sort of almost made some of the drop, like some of the maybe faux pressure, body positioning of the DBs, a little bit confusing for him. It looked like that was like, set up by earlier plays that they baited him into that. So, but yes, continue,

I interrupted you. No, no, you're absolutely right. I was saying, like, the first and third were bad decisions. The third was like,

he got fooled. It's going to happen. And it was a great play by Julian Love. It's a reminder, like how this team has put their secondary together. It's like you watch Reek Will and leave. You don't have Nick Iman Worry. And they coach up these guys like Narimaia Pritchett.

And they bring in a guy like Josh Stowe from Philadelphia. And he makes it happen. What the heck? I want to see highlights. We've been waiting so long. for actual game highlights. Let's see that Julian Love interception in the fourth quarter. 114 May, here comes the rush, stands, throws down the middle, a interception.

Julian Love makes a man miss, turns up field, got some blockers, gets hit, gets knocked out of bounds, inside the 35-yard line. Julian Love has been all over the field tonight. He has been an absolute thorn in Drake May's behind. that time the second pick of the night for the Seattle defense. Yeah, Greg, it's cool because it's not, that's, that was his, you know, biggest splash play, I would say that we are using in the highlight. But one thing that Julian Love really embodied for this team tonight,

and Nehemiah Pritchett did as well with a big stop for no gain in, in the, in the game, was how well they tackle. And Julian Love added a few tackles for loss, and a couple of run stuff, was getting into the backfield, was playing everywhere. where was really just marshalling everything, keeping everything organized, but also very cloudy at times too for the quarterback. And that's part of it is even when the Patriots were moving the ball

and with some of those like swing passes that they hit and some of the short stuff that they were trying to go and get into a rhythm with and mitigate pressure a little bit, which they did well through most of the first three quarters of the game and into the fourth quarter, the Seahawks didn't make anything easy for them because, they tackle so well and because they can move these players and get them into the backfield so often. And it's not just the DBs. It's the big guys too. And I thought the Patriots did a

better job than the Super Bowl, recognizing blitzes and pass protecting for the most part. But Chris Collinsworth was going nuts about how the offensive line was better. And it was bad. Like their running game was a disaster. They stuck with it the whole game. Their offense wasn't much better than the Super Bowl, if it was at all. These were actually the two worst games by EPA per play of the entire Mike Rable era, the last two against the Seahawks. Now, that's heavily weighted towards the last three drives, but they had 10 points before those three drives. They wasted opportunities. They didn't really move the ball. The Seahawks with Drew Lockett quarterback ended up with more yards than the Patriots, despite the Patriots finally putting together a good drive in the fourth quarter. And before we

kind of get to like the larger picture, I do kind of want to start with the end of the game. it was fascinating because in so many ways this was a week one game. Both teams looked sloppy. The Seahawks were kind of a disaster in terms of their operation, tons of pre-snap penalties, two personal foul calls. At one time, I think they had five penalties before the play started and two 15-yard penalties. And they also blew their timeouts early in the second half. So when that final interception happened, Jordan, it was setting up for, wow, the Patriots

handled the end of the game sequence incredibly well. And Drake May overcomes these mistakes to beat the vaunted Seahawks defense at the end of the game. On that drive, they go for a fourth and two inside their own 35. Drake May runs for the first time, as you pointed out to me in the first half on that play. He gets it. He runs a couple other times just trying to buy time on that drive. He overcomes a third and 19, hits Hunter Henry for 10 yards, and then a fourth and nine, getting it to Mac Collins. He gets them in easy field goal position to possibly win the game

before they start getting penalties. And that's why I have a little problem with Collinsworth saying the offensive line was playing well, because they had penalty after penalty from the Patriots offensive line. Will Campbell had a couple. They had more down the stretch.

And it was kind of a mistake off and like whose best is going to win and whose best was the Seahawks defense. They're just like the best group of this game. So I give you the choice of your on your list, like what is one of the cool plays you want to highlight about this CAC scene? I'm putting you on the spot. Yeah, Cheninuosu jumps a screen on second down in the third quarter.

That was sick. Okay. Okay. Oh, Chenanuoso had a really great game. First quarter. He totally bricks the rookie tight end, Eli Rareden, who did have the first touchdown of the NFL season. So good for him and he's a rookie tight end for New England. And then that's when that was the sequence that set up Witherspoon on the corner blitz, too.

And for me, that was like them trying to set the tone and make a statement of intent. And the sequence itself was so, I guess, new vintage of what the Seahawks, the Seahawks group is. I really appreciated the sequence after a totally disastrous four-play 14 net yards possession in the third quarter by Drew Locke in the Seattle offense, where it was a tackle for loss by Julian Love. It was a one-yard stop, another third downstop. And then on the punt team, Jay Harbaugh says, I'm the OG special teams guy. I'm from that family.

Oh, come on. Say it with your check. I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. I said you. I'm so fired up. I'm the Harbaugh here. I say you're a rude text.

And then they, and they sort of scared the Patriots into taking a penalty there. that was really bad. For me, that was like the two phases that we know Seattle really finds its edges and showing up in a big way and lifting the floor for a pretty struggling offense. And I'm not saying Drew Lock played poorly. There was some situational stuff that was really, really bad.

Some of the pressure pickups were just failure. Like he's going to want back the times where he was staring at his wristband like seven times and delay of games. And some of the pressure calls, they'll probably change some of the pressure call assignments to somebody else because clearly he was. not in charge of executing them. And a couple of those, like the Yacchus play, like a couple of those plays really got blown up

and someone should have picked up that pressure and adjusted beforehand. But these two phases are what makes Seattle special. I think it sounds so cheesy, I know, but I would bet that that's the group they wanted on the field at the end of the game. Sure. It's absolutely true. And Drew Locke did not have a turnover in this game.

In the end, you know, like if you just looked at the box score, he's 16 for 22 for 187 yards and a touchdown. They only end up with 13 points, but the key play in the entire game other than the game ending interception is the JSN touchdown. And the fact that the Patriots going into halftime with the lead, with Mike Tomlin in the building, you know, covering the game for NBC, decided to do what Mike Tomlin says you don't want to do. And that's live in your fears. The Patriots were living in their fears. They were living on short runs to Bremondry Stevenson. They get over midfield and they call a run on fourth and five.

When you have Seattle, you know, reeling, you get a couple yards. And then you punt at the end of the half. And you know who didn't punt on fourth down? Mike McDonald. He calls a play action pass. Let's hear it. And it's going to be fourth down and less than a yard. Drewlock is going to go under center.

Eye backs behind him. Wilson stays in a tailback. Play fake. Drew looks. Drew throws. Ball is caught. Jesse. J.S. Bricks his tackle.

30. Play five, 20. With the go. He is. touchdown. Seahawks in 45 yards. Runs right through the heart of the Patriot defense. And he lances their heart.

Reminds me of a lot of plays from that Super Bowl where they got the linebackers, Robert Spillane in that case, to suck up on the play action fake. And on a day where I was like, JSN's been kind of quiet until that touchdown. He ends up with eight catches for 122 yards. This is a game where neither team went over 300 yards. And yet JSN just getting his MVP numbers. And I know McDonald didn't have a perfect game,

but I do think that's a big difference between these two coaching staffs in this game about how they handled those situations. One is playing to win. It felt like one was playing not to lose. That call is McDonald's to make to go for it on that. fourth down. I want to also say it shows he had some faith in Brian Fleury, his new

offensive coordinator. And in part, you could really see why, because that looked like a very San Francisco 49ers thing to do. Like not go for it on fourth down. Kyle Shanahan almost like just never does the thing. But on a short yardage play like that, to line up in that formation with the fullback, to run like a longer developing play action. to have the receiver come off the line of scrimmage as if he is going to go for the deeper concept, but then sit right in the soft part of that zone where that system often puts linebackers in absolute hell. And then to have him turn and then have the yards after the catch, I know Seahawks,

I'm sorry to say this. It just looked very like vintage Kyle Shanahan is going to steal your soul in this moment kind of play. and I loved seeing the cohesion between Mike McDonald actually making that decision and going for it. And then trusting Brian Florey was going to call that type of play. Obviously, he most recently coached in San Francisco. So to me, it was like a lot of callbacks in a cool way. That's what I love about football is like we're all products of stuff we did before. And that was some of this game very much.

I mean, you could see it in the game plans for both teams too. No doubt. And look, Clint Kubiak was with Kyle Shannon in San Francisco. Seahawks fans will take anything that looks like the 49ers offense under Kyle Shanahan this season. I am thinking of our friends that are waking up in Europe and they're listening to the podcast. And they're like, wait, Sam Donald got hurt. Also, A.J. Brown hurt his ankle in this game. Limped off.

Mike Rable would not give any update after the game. He was limping off under his own power. But that happened. That was an important part of the Patriots offense struggling down the stretch. at that point in the game, he was the guy Drake May was looking to on big third downs. He had, I believe, three catches and at least two first downs of those three catches, maybe all three. Sam Darnold leaves with a hip injury. And we're excited football's back. We're a little letdown. You know, when Darnold gets her and it's just a lackluster first half, and it just feels like a bummer of a kickoff game.

And we're riding high, taping this right afterwards, because we got real football in the end. And yet, it's week one. Like, the Patriots lost to Gino Smith last year in week one in the Raiders and went to the Super Bowl. The year before, Drodmeo beat Joe Burrow and the Bengals in Cincinnati in week one. And we know what happened there.

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The fact that at first no doctors were looking at him, but he just couldn't walk and had to call to be checked on. And then ultimately went out of the game with a hip injury. Do you have more post-game information for us? I do. I do. I've got your back here, Greg. So this is per Ian Rappaport and Adam Schaefter. Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald said the team got great news back on Sam Darnold.

And doctors do not believe the quarterback's hip is fractured. Said the medical folks were able to rule out a fracture, more test coming. But initially positive news for Sam Darnold. But yeah, you hate to see anyone get hurt. Overall, that's positive because a hip fracture would knock you out for a season. Any hip injury is really concerning. And so we just don't know. And that makes it sound more positive.

But I've seen this go a million different ways where you think it's good, then it goes bad, or you think it's bad, and then it goes good after the game. I guess my question for the short term, at least, is just, you know, what this team can do. Immediately I see people being like, Drew Locke's not going to be their starter next week. Like, who do they go get? And I'm thinking, like, are you, are you high? Drew Locke has been there for four years plus. Like, Drew Locke is the guy they chose to be the backup quarterback.

They are not going to find someone that they like better than Drew Locke anytime soon. If nothing else, they're going to see what he looks like. And now that we hear, you know, the injury is not a fracture. Obviously, we're going to be hopeful that Sam Darnel can get back sooner than later. I want to look at the Seattle schedule in the coming weeks. They play at Arizona, at Washington, home for chargers, and then home for the 49ers. That's a long runway. But the next two weeks, look, if you can beat the Patriots with Drewlock,

you got a real chance to beat the Cardinals and the commanders. This is why you have your backup quarterback. Yeah, because I thought, I thought, I thought overall the Patriots were throwing some interesting stuff at Seattle in terms of their pressure. I mentioned that before. That's something where they really were able to adjust quickly and take advantage of a quarterback who is working off a wristband. When you're working off a wristband, you get the call in your head. It's usually a shortened version of like whatever the, you know, starter would probably have.

And the starter would probably have multiple calls and can what they call can it. So like take one away essentially or go to a different one. and instead he's checking on his wristband for code words and colors that tell him what the play is and that just it slows the whole operation down. I'm not, you know, obviously you don't hold it against him. That's what backups have to have to do because normally they're running the scout team, not the entire offensive operation. So for me, it's like, okay, if they can clean that up in the long period of time that they

have if Sam Darnold is not ready to go, if they can get their tempo back a little bit, if Brian Fleury feels comfortable moving Drew Locke off the spot a little bit more, A lot of what he was doing was pure dropback. And what was interesting was some of his best throws were out of the pure dropback. Like he had a couple of angled, arm-angled throws that were just really solid. There was one over the middle that he just dropped over like a leaping defender. He had two or three awesome throws, which Dulac will do. Yeah, which he'll do.

But then other times it'll be like, oh, there's a delay of game at the wrong time. And you come away with the field goal instead of actual touchdown. You know, I think it's- You're like, does this man have peripheral vision? Like, he never, he is like a battering ram of a quarterback. But he's won some big games. You know what game this reminded me of more than anything was the comeback that he had against the Eagles in prime time in 2023.

It's the main reason he's still on the Cioxx, frankly, because Gino Smith got hurt that day. It was a last second, you know, start by Drew Locke, and he wins a monster game against a really good team in prime time. It's partly why he's here. And it reminds me a little bit of the week one game the Cioxed had with the 49ers last year, where it was just nip and tuck. Like week one is ugly,

and I think it's more important than ever that they found a way to win this game. It's why I think the loss for the Patriots is particularly painful for them. Yeah, and I think you can, especially, we don't know, we won't know what the recovery timeline is, but you can win a couple of games with a faster operating Drewlock to that point.

It's just, for me, the real problems came from confusion in the operation. Like even the throw where he's like basically half across the line of scrimmage and half behind the line of scrimmage as he as he throws the ball and it was, you know, an incomplete pass and sort of looked really odd and like it could have been a disaster. To me, that's just not confident what the play was, honestly, and not getting the timing right. So I think, too, that that's something that you help. And I saw that Seahawks fans and some and others were like, well, Jalen Milrow is on the on the team too. Like, what if there's a, well, he was the emergency quarterback. so he couldn't have come in the game unless there was another injury.

So for me, it's like, okay, I think that I think you can patchwork together some things. I don't think you're looking at wanting a long-term situation with Sam Darnold out. No. You have an offensive line that came into the game blowing the Patriots off the ball. Judarian Price ends up with 10 catches for 52 yards. But they trusted George Halani. We kept hearing this throughout the preseason like George. Halani is going to be a big factor on this team.

And I'm guessing he played much more. I'm checking it as we talk. They split reps almost evenly. But it felt like on the third downs on the short-yarded situations, they trusted Halani. So they end up splitting the carries more. But I think you should be able to run the ball a little bit. You have Cooper Cup on the team who just comes out of nowhere with like the sickest one-hand cat.

All right. Let's let's just think kind of rapid fire any other takeaways from this game. The Patriots missed Trayvon Henderson. They couldn't run the ball. Romeo Dobbs, as I mentioned, had about as about a debut as you can possibly have. Here were the three targets. The first one we showed you where he kind of couldn't break up a potential jump ball. And it wasn't a great throw by May.

But also, like, if Dobbs judges it better, attacks the ball, who knows? Maybe the, you know, at least it's incomplete. he is the target on another interception. And then more than anything, he drops one of Drake May's better plays. One of the many plays where Drake May got out of pressure, and this time he was rolling to the right, and he had Romeo Dobbs downfield.

He said, you know, May didn't hit anything downfield. That would have been his one completion, and instead he dropped it and ended a drive that Drake May forced the ball on the very next play and wound up being an interception. So that was a big flip for them. So they spend all this money at wide receiver, Jordan, and A.G. Brown goes out with an injury,

and Romeo Dobbs played less until Brown got hurt than Mack Hollins. So that kind of showed you where the trust level was at. It wasn't a big difference. Like, they were all playing plenty. But Mac Hollins was used more than Romeo Dobbs, who just did not look confident in this game. Any other kind of quick hits before we get out of here for our weekend? Yeah.

You mentioned at the top, Drake May. was really effective picking up yards with his legs in the first half. It was one of the things that was moving the ball most effectively. It was keeping the Patriots actually really efficient ahead of the sticks. He had five carries for 36 yards in the first half. One was on second and nine. It was a 16 yard carry. And then there was a second and one where he got three.

So he's converting those a second and 10 where he gets six. So he sets him up for a good third down. And then he converts another one on a second and seven. And for me, it just was helping them stay on time. more efficient. He didn't run at all. In terms of design, not not avoiding pressure, not bootlegging, like just it wasn't any of that that we saw in the first half until that fourth down pickup where he did run for it. And for me, I was, I'm can, I just would like to know where that went or why that went away. And maybe they saw something that certainly I didn't see, but I'm, I'm

curious because it was effective and it was working and it seemed to settle him and settle the rest of their, their offense down and get them moving the ball. Yeah. I think it's just, they kept getting in bad down and distance situations in the second half. I mean, they had that field goal early in the second half where they had good field position. And then they kept having early penalties. Will Campbell had a couple. And, you know, you can only run so much. And even in the first half, I mean, it was a bad sign.

Like, they didn't get a pass off to their receivers in the first couple drives because he just had to scramble. And then Devin Witherspoon is covering anyone. Like, no one could, like, complete a pass for the first quarter of this game. And I would also say running a draw on third and five only to punt after it. Yeah, just brutal. Made me want to walk into the ocean. Yes, that was the moment where I thought, oh, they're probably going to lose this game. And to me, it is a bigger loss for the Patriots than it is even a great win for the C-Ox.

It's a great win. Anytime you come back like that, down 10 points, you got your backup quarterback. it's a quality opponent. That's awesome. The Patriots schedule this year is going to be much tougher. It's the flip side. You have to show

that you can close games out like this. Your quarterback comes in second in the MVP last year. And I think did a lot of good things tonight if you just erased those interceptions all in the fourth quarter. Go to into the third. I thought, you know what?

He's actually playing a pretty good game even though the numbers aren't that good. But for him to make that many errors in one fourth quarter and then for the defense to give up what they did, which wasn't too crazy. And then to just basically not get it done, it's a bad omen, Jordan. It's a bad omen's and signs. We're tracking them. Week one, baby.

We're tracking omens and signs all weekend. It is. Yeah, the first play for the Seahawks going for plus 10 yards when the Patriots had like eight yards in the box. I was like, this is a terrible omen. You know what's a great omen is we got through this first recap of the season. fun game. Good to hear that Darnold doesn't have a hip fracture,

so hopefully he's not out too long, and it doesn't capsize one of the best teams in the NFL. Patriots will have a long, what is it, 10 days before their week two game. I always do think it's an advantage to get this first week. Now it's Wednesday, but even the Thursday game,

you get a little extra rest. You don't have the short week before it. It's a little bit of an advantage here for the Seahawks and the Patriots. Let's get out of here. Hit that music, Kyrie. Great job on this first show.

Thank you to everyone. Of course, who watched us live. We're going to be doing it again on Thursday night. So check us out. It will be me and Nick Shook after the 49ers and the Rams, the first ever game in Australia. We have our preview show coming on Thursday. We got picks coming on Friday. We are rolling, baby.

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