Tag: Marshawn Lynch

Marshawn Lynch says he laughed in Pete Carroll’s face after infamous Super Bowl INT

“You put us in the history books as the dumbest call in football history.”

Everything that comes out about the 2010s Seattle Seahawks’ fall from grace seems laced with drama. You have Marshawn Lynch revealing he doesn’t talk much to Russell Wilson anymore. There’s Pete Carroll discussing how furious some of his players were after a Super Bowl 49 pass play ended in disastrous fashion in the form of a game-clinching interception for the New England Patriots’ Malcolm Butler.

It’s that very sequence where Lynch recently decided to open up about on an episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast. After all, as the starting running back and the man who probably should’ve touched the ball near the goal line, Lynch was the one most directly affected. So, after ripping Carroll’s seemingly toxic positivity along the lines of “we’ll get it next time,” Lynch said he didn’t keep his cool.

He laughed right in Carroll’s face for “the dumbest call in football history.” Check it out below via a video from the Club Shay Shay podcast.

Honestly, I can’t blame Lynch. To lose the Super Bowl because your coach overthought the ending of the game is brutal. The Seahawks could’ve gone back to back and been immortalized as one of the greatest teams in NFL history. Instead, because of Carroll’s now-infamous call, they became a footnote in the Patriots’ run with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and have all of this inner drama to sort through to this day.

Marshawn Lynch sets record straight on relationship with Russell Wilson

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When the Seahawks were at their best, Marshawn Lynch was the beating heart of a locker room that was stacked with alpha dogs and at least one lion as Richard Sherman would put it. Who better to speak on what went wrong when those famous Legion of Boom teams finally broke up?

Lynch was a guest on Shannon Sharpe’s new show earlier this week and he was asked about the breakdown between Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll. Lynch admitted he didn’t really f— with either of them, so he couldn’t speak to that. Watch.

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Marshawn Lynch says he doesn’t have much of a relationship with Russell Wilson: ‘I don’t have his number’

Marshawn Lynch has given us some rich insight into playing with Russell Wilson with the Seahawks.

The Seattle Seahawks were one of the best teams of the 2010s, but the “Legion of Boom” days didn’t end on the best terms.

Much has been said over the years about how the Seahawks went from one of the best NFL teams of all time that could’ve won multiple Super Bowls to a squad that had tantalizing potential that it couldn’t fully realize.

The team’s disastrous finish to Super Bowl 49 where quarterback Russell Wilson threw a goal-line pick at the last minute recently got excavated by former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman and coach Pete Carroll as those two buried the hatched on the infamous sequence.

Well, former Seattle running back/franchise legend Marshawn Lynch talked with Shannon Sharpe on the latter’s Club Shay Shay program about playing with Wilson and why the dynamic there never fully gelled with the rest of the team.

It’s a fascinating 9-minute conversation between Lynch and Sharpe about Wilson’s personality and how it meshed with the rest of the Seahawks.

Their illuminating talk touches on the reported friction between Wilson and the Seahawks defensive backs room and a very strange story about how Wilson might’ve had Lynch’s number blocked when the latter tried to call the former to encourage him after a tough day playing the Tennessee Titans.

Lynch’s retelling of Wilson’s reaction to that seemingly innocuous call also raises some eyebrows. We’ll let you listen in as to why.

NSFW language to follow. 

This is as interesting a set of insights as we’ve heard from a former NFL player in some time, as Lynch really does a nice job of painting a picture of what life was like in Seattle at times during the team’s golden run.

It doesn’t sound like Lynch has any hard feelings toward Wilson, and he said he was happy to have had him as his quarterback. However, it really didn’t seem like the two had the type of off-field connection that you’d expect, and that might’ve stretched for how Wilson interacted with the rest of his teammates.

Wilson is now in Denver, where he’s had his fair share of awkward encounters with his fellow Broncos. If anything, Lynch’s fascinating comments help further shed light into what exactly happened during those Seahawks glory days, and why they didn’t last as long as suspected.

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‘Beast Mode’ can now be found in the dictionary

It’s officially been added by Merriam-Webster

Well, this is quite the fun bit of news this weekend. Fans of the Seattle Seahawks have become accustomed very well to the phrase “Beast Mode” thanks to the efforts of beloved star running back Marshawn Lynch. Now, fans can enjoy it as an actual word.

Yes, you read that right. It’s now an actual word/phrase that is now in the dictionary! Merriam-Webster added it, along with nearly 700 words and phrases.

Of course, the phrase came into the popular Seattle vernacular following Lynch’s iconic touchdown run in the 2010 Wild Card game against the New Orleans Saints. Leading 34-30, the Seahawks were on the verge of an upset, but still needed points to help ice the game. Enter: Lynch, who bulldozed his way into the end zone and NFL immortality.

Thanks to Lynch’s efforts, the Seahawks would hold on to upset the defending World Champion Saints 41-36 to become the first below-.500 team to win a playoff game.

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Marshawn Lynch watches film with Barry Sanders

Ask any NFL fan who their favorite player of all time is that didn’t play for their team and odds are the answer will be Barry Sanders.

Ask any NFL fan who their favorite player of all time is that didn’t play for their team and odds are the answer will be Barry Sanders. It sounds like you can count Marshawn Lynch among them.

Watch Lynch and Sanders breaking down some film together from last night’s Prime broadcast of the Lions vs. Packers game.

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Marshawn Lynch hanging out with Amish people is as hilarious as you think (video)

Marshawn remains one of a kind:

Horse and buggy, milking cows, and more. Former Bills and NFL running back turned hilarious media man Marshawn Lynch found himself in another fun video hat has hit the internet recently.

The feature comes from NFL on Prime and can be found below:

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5 hysterical Marshawn Lynch moments from him calling SlamBall games on ESPN

Marshawn Lynch broadcasting SlamBall games is as hysterical as it sounds.

Is there anything former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch can’t do?

He’s an NFL veteran. He’s an actor. Now, he’s a SlamBall broadcaster .

He’s expanding his wide array of talents to the broadcast booth as he provided commentary during ESPN’s airing of the SlamBall finale on Thursday night was as electric and gut-bustingly hysterical as you could imagine.

On one clip, Lynch found a phenomenal way to incorporate none other than Sonic the Hedgehog into one of his broadcast moments of one player knocking another on their rear end.

It really was absolutely glorious and the kind of signature moment you’re only going to get from Lynch.

You can check out that brilliant Sonic-inspired call and four other Lynch highlights below.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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Marshawn Lynch is at Detroit Lions training camp practice today

Here’s a look at former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch hanging out on the sidelines.

The Lions have a special guest at their training camp practice today.

Here’s a look at former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch hanging out on the sidelines.

It’s unclear why Lynch is in Detroit today specifically. However, it may have something to do with his segments for Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcasts. They have a regular bit during the season where Lynch visits different NFL cities and gets up to Marshawn-Lynch-type-things.

The Lions kickoff the 2023 season four weeks from Thursday on the road against the Chiefs. They’ll visit the Packers for another Thursday night road game in Week 4, but won’t have a home Thursday game until Week 12 – also against Green Bay. If the Amazon show is why he’s in town, there’s a chance we won’t get to see Lynch’s segment from Detroit until then.

With Aaron Rodgers now in the AFC, the Bears and Lions rising and the Vikings being the Vikings, the NFC North appears to be as wide open as it’s been in a long time. Our money is on Detroit winning the division, though.

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Taylor Swift’s Seattle show generated more seismic activity than Marshawn Lynch’s Beast Quake

Taylor Swift’s Seattle shows have officially topped the Beast Quake for seismic activity at Lumen Field.

Taylor Swift has overtaken a Seattle record at Lumen Field from Seahawks great Marshawn Lynch.

Indeed, CNN reported on Friday that Swift’s two shows in Seattle broke the seismic activity record originally set by Lynch’s famous “Beast Quake” run in the 2011 NFL playoffs against the New Orleans Saints.

After two nights of earth-shaking dancing at Swift’s Seattle “Eras” tour concert at Lumen Field, enthusiastic Swifties caused seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach.

The “Swift Quake” has been compared to the 2011 “Beast Quake,” when Seattle Seahawks fans erupted after an impressive touchdown by running back Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch. The ensuing celebration was detected on the same local seismometer as the Swift concert, Caplan-Auerbach told CNN.

Caplan-Auerbach explained the mathematical difference that gave Swift’s shows the edge over the historic Seahawks moment.

While the magnitude difference between “Beast Quake”
and “Swift Quake” is only 0.3, Caplan-Auerbach said the Swifties have the Seahawks fans beat. “The shaking was twice as strong as ‘Beast Quake.’ It absolutely doubled it.”

While Seahawks fans might be a bit bummed that Lynch’s run for the ages is now topped in seismic activity, they can rest assured that calling their fantasy football teams “Swift Quake” will be a very fair consolation prize.

Marcus Peters takes Raiders No 24 once worn by fellow Oakland native Marshawn Lynch

Marcus Peters chooses legendary No 24 which was once worn by his old friend Marshawn Lynch

Taking the field today for the Raiders was newly signed cornerback Marcus Peters. And he was wearing the number 24. The same number 24 that was worn by close friend and fellow Oakland native Marshawn Lynch when he signed with the Raiders back in 2017.

Wearing the same number as Marshawn probably gives the selection personal meaning for Peters. But the number holds a whole lot more meaning to the franchise.

No number in NFL history is more legendary to a team than the number 24 is to the Raiders.

Two Hall of Fame cornerbacks wore it in Charles Woodson and Willie Brown. Making for the greatest to ever wear the number 24 on any team, let alone in Silver & Black. Two fold.

It was two years after Woodson retired that Marshawn took it over.

The last Raiders player to wear the number was former first round pick Johnathan Abram. Needless to say, he didn’t live up to the legends before him to wear it. Peters surely hopes he can do it justice.