OverDrive - Willson on the Seahawks' SB victory, Noodlleson's championship win and lack of super teams

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

TSN NFL Analyst Luke Willson joined OverDrive to discuss the Seahawks' Super Bowl victory, Sam Darnold leading the way, the lack of powerhouses in the NFL, Noodlleson's championship victory and more.

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One of the worst regular seasons of all time. Noodles? But I got to give credit where credits do. A win is a win is a win. with. Congratulations. Stay humble. Stay humble.

I do have a statement. Nudles and I prepared. You know, noodles and I, as you can see, my voice, a little raspy. We had a pretty good time

after celebrating our win, which was hard fought. You know, we didn't win the President's trophy this year, which is my fault, but at the end of the day, we're Super Bowl champs.

But after careful, careful consideration and considering all things, Nudels and I would like to award O'Dog because of his key contributions to team Owen Wilson and now Team Nudelson, we'd like to award him a championship ring. What? That's O'Donoff. Stop it.

Stop it. I knew you were. We talk about it all the time whether a guy deserves it or not, and I think I deserve it parts. And I think I deserve it. Nunes and I went back and forth. We said, you know. We just thought about it I thought maybe a necklace or something

You know how like there's always like Layers I'll take a smaller ring I'll take a smaller ring Your contributions Yeah I knew you were a mole The whole energy of this guy Just sunk us

No I knew it man That's disappointing Disappointing to hear But I'm not surprised I'm not surprised Hayes another year for you Hayes another year for you Hayes

Another year before though man I got rings With me last one you happens with me. I'm like Robert Kraft. I'm six and five in the Super Bowl. I win some, I lose some. Parts, how about this take as he had yesterday?

He started to go down this path of saying the New England Patriots franchise is a bunch of losers for all the losing they've done in the Super Bowl. Can you have? Dude, you said it. You said it. They're six and six lifetime in the Super Bowl. They've lost a lot more than anybody in Super Bowl history. Yeah, I mean, they've also won the tide the most in any one.

one in history with the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's a lot of losing, man. I asked them, what about Cleveland Browns? Like, they don't even get a sniff of going to the playoffs. Yeah, different category. Ask a Detroit Lion fan. Ask a Buffalo Bill fan if they'd beat six and six in the Super Bowl. They'd be pretty thrilled.

They've done a lot of losing, too, in the Super Bowl. Yeah, but you don't get anything for the consulate, like, for a second. That's what I'm saying. I'm just saying, Bob Kraft has walked out of that stadium six times, five times as an owner, been like, man, man, I lost. It's a lot of losing. Sure, it's a lot of losing, but in the same breath here, it's like, man. Been there 11 times.

Yeah, this guy's, this guy's cooking, cooking. Yeah, I hear you. I love Joe from the bridge writing O'Dog Valchunis. That's exactly what he was. O'Donginous. That's a ring even though he wasn't on the championship team. Trade it from Marcus Saul. You know, you guys, you didn't get Marcus Saul.

It was just a waiver-wire pick. They gave Jonas Valentunus a ring. No, but that's where it all started. Remember we had the argument? you're in about who should get a ring or who shouldn't. Right. And I think you said Valachunis should get a ring, and we were all like, why would he get a ring? Doogie, looked that up.

I think he might have given him one. I don't think he might have. C.J. Miles went in that deal. You know, there were a couple of other pieces. But Valchunis was a high pick, top five pick, good raptor for a whole time. He wasn't on the team. I don't know. No, no, I don't care.

I just want to, I want Dugie to confirm or deny that he actually got a ring. All right. Doogie, you can look that up. Where is Al's bro? Does you, as you take, you mean, you guys were awful to playoff. You won't see him until kickoff, 2006. Come on, man. You want to talk about accountability?

He's like the groundhog. Like, he comes out around the Super Bowl just disappears. Him and Yoko were back on a cruise. Like, that's it. More so than the waiver wire, I do think the whole Yoko thing might have thrown us off substantially. I planted that seed and it just grew like a beautiful tree. because all of a sudden Al's brother was off. Dude, he was off.

I'm trying to make picks, and there's like someone playing the accordion in the background singing. Exactly. O'Dong had his number. Early in the playoffs, if you guys would have listened to O'Dong and on Al's brother, you would have been there. You would have been there. He put a diaper on and absolutely soiled himself every week. And I don't want to be disrespectful.

No, we're still working out the wedding details. We'll figure that out and we'll let people know. Yeah. Well, Seattle, I mean, that was a brutal game. It was an awful game. It was not a fun watch. Yeah, New England was awful. And honestly, I didn't think Seattle's run game was awesome.

Yes. But I didn't think Sam Darnel played particularly well either. I thought there was a lot of tight window throws that you just kind of missed a little bit. But it was not a fun watch. I'll say this, though, Hayes, the biggest takeaway that I cook from the whole Super Bowl win is that John Snyder is going to the Hall of Fame. Their GM, president of football Here's a few. Here's a few for you guys.

And it's, I don't think it's being talked about enough. Let's go back to the Russell Wilson trade. Especially now that we know what we know, the draft picks from that trade. Derek Hall, Devin Witherspoon, Boye Moffey, Charles Cross.

Like, come on now. For Russ. Come on now. To get off of Russ. Yes. And, and Then you look at that position. Okay, the Gino Smith and the Sam Darnold worked out was cheaper and worked out. Brilliant. But the other one we're not talking about here is the D.K. Metcalf trade.

They got, I think, a fifth and a seventh. They traded a sixth in D.K. Excuse me. They got a second and a fifth and traded a six in DK, I believe. The second round pick they got from Pittsburgh, they flipped on the draft to move up and draft Nick Eamon Worry. Parts, what was the main reason D.K. going out the door? Can you just

explain that quickly? I think it's a combination of things, and even being on the field talking to I was pretty, I was pretty, we got some good guests in the post game PSN show. You guys crushed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's almost like somebody knew their PR staff. Who could have that of them?

Super Bowl champ. So, I think you know, talking to the guys on camera, even off camera, a bit like I play with Jaron Reed. I don't really think D.K. would have been a great fit

in that locker room with what Mike McDonald was trying to do. You know, D.K., and I, this isn't a shot of D.K., I loved playing with him. But he's more of a Pete Carroll guy to me, meaning like, Pete ran a very liberal locker room, very loose, kind of guys, do whatever you want, as long as you show up on game

day, almost to a fault. I think later in that, in Pete's tenure there, and I think, I know, it became a detriment. I was younger, we had vets kind of police the locker room. Pete did zero policing. When we got older, we didn't really have those vets that were doing the same thing. And it got a little wild. And it's like, you know, when you have a guy like D.K. who's had the success he's had in that style, it's going to be hard to kind of be like, hey,

we've got to lock back in here and like, you know, it's a little more military-style disciplined locker room. So that would be my guess. You know, I think you see that this year. some of the emotion, you know, D.K. punching the one fan. Like, let's go to Tarek Wollin on the Seahawks. When he got a penalty in the game for talking smack against the Rams, even worry is having an out with him on the sideline right there. Like, beyond the talent of Seattle, the selflessness that that team showed, all the way JSN's interviews, like, they were just all beaten to the same drum.

And I thought that was pretty special. Yeah, they had a great run, man. like that it was it was not a great Super Bowl uh it wasn't a crazy build up to the Super Bowl I think because of you know partially the teams involved you know just and what I mean by that is they weren't expected to do this this year and you know the suit the quarterbacks are cool stories but they're not superstars they're not you know marquee guys I also this is a bit of a crazy take case but I thought it was a bit of a down year in general for the NFL when it comes to great teams.

Yes. Like when you look at the AFC this year, the one seed was Denver, quite honestly, didn't have very many games where you're like, wow, this is team is incredible. You know, the two seed was New England who just got shellacked in the Super Bowl and had the weakest schedule since I don't remember the year, whatever that stat was. And it's like you'd go down the list. And honestly, I thought there was an argument that the best overall team was Jacksonville. I thought like coming into this thing I'm like Jacksonville might be the best team in there and they get bumped in the first round by Buffalo

you know Buffalo had holes in their roster like I don't think there was any team or you're like wow this team is amazing and I would say it was similar for the NFC outside of Seattle you know Seattle was by far the most complete team you go to L.A. Offense was unbelievable secondary special I mean especially for the Rams

like down the stretch the RAMs secondary was torched. Yeah they were getting beat up bad, man. Beat up bad. You know, San Francisco. You know, you're not really buying. Yes, the Bears. I mean, again, if you're Captain Ben Johnson, the Bears.

They weren't Super Bowl caliber, though. Not even close. You know, Green Bay is another one where it's like, I probably think Green Bay should have been in that conversation, but they just found ways to lose games. Yeah. And when Parsons went down, it was over. Yeah. So I do think that was a bit tough for the NFL this year.

And I'm going to have my own conspiracies of how college football and what's going on there is going to continue to, you know, degrade the quality of NFL football, at least for young kids, but I'll spare you those on today's show. Okay. Well, we're into the offseason now. What a run for you guys. Got to give credit words to Al's brother. I'm sure we'll pop up and congratulate you at some point. We had a good run. Yeah, he had a good run. And now we reset and we see where we go next year, man. We got seven months until we play football again. Six and a half. It's depressing. But Big off season coming up.

We'll get you on a bunch and enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself. Noodles. It's an absolute pleasure. One last. One last pro athlete salute. I just got to say this, you'll always be my party, man. I don't care about anything else.

All right. Great stuff. Ors that was brother when I meet him. I'm on an island here. I can do this for you, Hayes. Yeah. We'll give you the consolation prize. One last time.

One last time is we ride off into the sunset. Luke Wilson. All right, buddy. We'll chat soon. There he is. Luke Wilson joining us. I'm Dylan Playfair. And I'm Tyler Smith.

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