The Seahawks’ title run is still giving fans something to hold onto, and before the 2026 season kicks off on 9/9, there are two new documentaries worth lining up.
First up is NFL Films’ “America’s Game: The 2025 Seattle Seahawks,” which is airing on YouTube TV. It’s a polished tribute to the championship season, and it leans hard into the voices that made the run feel so complete. Mike Macdonald, who was born in Boston, said he used to watch America’s Game in high school while the New England Patriots were building their dynasty.
The film gives a strong sense of how the season felt from inside the building. Ernest Jones IV, talking about Sam Darnold’s redemption arc at quarterback in Seattle, said: “I think he just models what everybody on that team’s been through. We’ve all been rejected, we’ve all… not been respected.”
Darnold, meanwhile, reflected on Jones IV’s expletive-laden support after his 4-INT game against the Rams: “He had my back. It’s what I’ve kinda been talking about with this whole team: everyone had each other’s backs throughout the season.
You come back into the locker room, and you just felt that brotherhood; we had a brotherhood, we had that love. And I felt that when E.J. said those things.”
He added: “I don’t think it was a coincidence that we didn’t lose a game the rest of the year.”
One of the more striking details in the documentary is that the “Dark Side” defense “actually ran out of blitzes in the 2nd quarter” of the big game.
The other watch is Roku’s “Super Bowl Champions: The 2025 Seattle Seahawks,” which has been available since March. That one takes a different approach, moving more like a game-by-game recap of the journey.
It also digs into the NFC Championship Game, where Rams head coach Sean McVay described the play when DeMarcus Lawrence dropped to the flats with Kyren Williams as a “fortuitous bust,” saying, “They kinda lucked into having two guys peel on Kyren right there I know that can’t be part of their design.” Macdonald admitted that “we actually didn’t even execute that play well on the fourth down.”
Lawrence had his own reaction to the description. “I’ll take it.
I’ll take it all day.” he said. He then broke down the sequence from his perspective: “playing football as long as I done played, I’ve seen so many formations and schemes.
The back is flaring out that fast, that means that’s his hot. He’s going to the back first.
If the back wasn’t his hot, the back would’ve waited to see if Julian was gonna rush versus the end flaring out. But he didn’t wait.”
Together, the two documentaries reinforce the same themes that showed up in Hard Knocks: resilience, brotherhood and resolve. They also put Mike Macdonald front and center. His media persona may be easygoing and a little quirky, but on the field he comes across as relentlessly dialed in.
In “Super Bowl Champions,” Macdonald says it plainly: “We did not care. It’s always been about us and what we do.”
That’s the thread running through both films. The 2025 Seahawks were about themselves, not the opponent across from them, and both documentaries capture that as the team looks ahead to what comes next.
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