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The Super Bowl Documentary Is Here. It’s Free. It Has The Most Wired Sound In NFL Films History. Go Watch It.
It’s today. Right now. The 75-minute NFL Films documentary chronicling the 2025 Seattle Seahawks’ championship season is streaming for free on The Roku Channel as of this morning, and you have absolutely no excuse not to clear your evening.
Super Bowl Champions: The 2025 Seattle Seahawks is narrated by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who is not just a famous actor but one of the most aggressively online Seahawks fans alive. The man used his social media platform to cheer on the team all season, and now he’s lending that unmistakable Negan voice to the story of how a defense nicknamed “The Dark Side” dismantled the NFL. If that doesn’t do it for you, nothing will.
The content itself sounds absurd in the best way. NFL Films says this documentary contains “the largest compilation of player and coach wired sound from throughout the season ever” for a championship special. Every Macdonald sideline call, every DeMarcus Lawrence growl, every Sam Darnold audible from the 29-13 demolition of New England in Super Bowl LX. Extended game highlights. Locker room footage. Championship parade coverage. It is, essentially, 75 minutes of pure serotonin for anyone who watched this team claw through a wild-card-free postseason without committing a single turnover.
The film was produced by NFL Films in association with BD4 and directed by James Weiner. It is Roku’s second championship documentary production with the NFL, following last year’s Eagles film. This one should, to put it clinically, hit different.
You can stream it for free in the U.S. and Canada on The Roku Channel. If you’re outside North America, well, that’s what VPNs are for. We don’t make the rules. We just watch the documentaries.
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Scheduling
Wednesday Night Football Is Real. The Seahawks Are Hosting The NFL’s Opening Game On A School Night.
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The reason is wonderfully convoluted. The NFL scheduled its first-ever regular-season game in Melbourne, Australia, for that same week: the 49ers vs. the Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday, September 10. Because the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 prohibits the NFL from airing games on Friday or Saturday from mid-September through mid-December, the league couldn’t just bump the opener to Friday. So they went the other direction. Wednesday it is.
CBS Sports reports the game would kick off at 8:20 p.m. ET. The last time the NFL opened on a Wednesday was 2012, when the Giants hosted the Cowboys to avoid a conflict with the Democratic National Convention. So this is genuinely rare territory. FOX 13 Seattle notes it would be the Seahawks’ first Wednesday game in franchise history.
There’s a logistical wrinkle, naturally. The Mariners have a 6:40 p.m. home game against the Rangers that night at T-Mobile Park, and the Sounders are scheduled to host Sporting Kansas City at Lumen Field. Something has to move. But Seattle’s sports teams have navigated this before. When the Mariners had a playoff game last October, the Seahawks adjusted their start time. Expect similar cooperation here, because nobody is getting in the way of a banner-raising ceremony.
As for the opponent? We won’t know until May. The possibilities include a Super Bowl rematch against the Patriots, the Chiefs with a potentially healthy Patrick Mahomes, the Cowboys, Bears, Giants, Chargers, or Cardinals. The smart money is on New England. The emotional money is also on New England.
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Edge Watch
The Greenard Trade Has Entered Week Three. The Eagles Are Still First In Line. Seattle’s Still Holding.
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The facts remain unchanged in the ways that matter. Greenard has two years left on his four-year, $76 million contract with a $22.15 million cap hit. All $38 million in guarantees have been paid out. He posted just 3 sacks in 12 games last season before undergoing shoulder surgery. His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, is pushing for a raise. The asking price from Minnesota remains a Day 2 pick.
The Eagles continue to be the most aggressive suitor. Per The Athletic’s Dianna Russini, Philadelphia “continues to inquire” and is “in contact with his agent about a potential extension if a deal were to be struck.” The Vikings have Dallas Turner waiting in the wings after his 8-sack, 15-QB-hit season in 2025, which makes moving Greenard logical if the return is right.
Seattle’s position hasn’t changed either, which is the problem. The Seahawks are confirmed in the mix alongside the Colts, Cowboys, and Eagles per Evan Sidery. But the Eagles have more draft capital (four compensatory picks this year), more urgency (they lost Jaelan Phillips to Carolina’s $120 million deal), and a GM in Howie Roseman who trades like he’s playing a speed round of Monopoly. If Philly closes this deal, the Seahawks’ edge plan in 2026 becomes Nwosu, Hall, and whatever they can find in the draft at picks 32, 64, or 96. The room isn’t bare. But it isn’t deep, either.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
The Seahawks re-signed inside linebacker and special teams ace Chazz Surratt to a one-year deal. Surratt played 60 percent of the team’s special teams snaps before going on IR with an ankle injury, and has logged over 700 career special teams snaps. With Surratt, D’Anthony Bell, and Brady Russell all back, Schneider has quietly reassembled the entire core of a special teams unit that went from laughingstock to championship-caliber in one year. The boring moves win rings. Write that down. NBC Sports
SI reports the Seahawks have roughly $40.3 million remaining in effective cap space for 2026, per Over The Cap. That’s after every re-signing so far this offseason. The only unsigned free agent from the 53-man roster is wide receiver Cody White, who probably isn’t keeping Schneider up at night. The roster is functionally complete outside of the draft and whatever move Schneider makes at edge and running back. This is the quiet part of the offseason. The calm before the April storm. SI on Seahawks
Pete Carroll broke his silence. In his first interview since being fired by the Raiders, Carroll spoke exclusively about Geno Smith’s trade to the Jets, taking the blame for Geno’s 17-interception nightmare in Las Vegas. He did not mention the Seahawks, the team he built into a Super Bowl champion. He did not congratulate anyone publicly. He just said he had to “chuckle” that Geno ended up back in New York. Pete Carroll: silent on the ring, loud about Geno Smith. Some things never change. ESPN
Field Gulls points out that with Surratt’s return, nearly every free agent special teamer is set to return to Seattle in 2026. The big names left: Ken Walker, Coby Bryant, Tariq Woolen, Boye Mafe. The special teams core that actually won playoff games? All back. Jay Harbaugh went from “fire this man” trending on Seahawks Twitter in 2024 to running a championship-caliber unit in 2025. A full 365-degree career arc, if career arcs went in circles, which in Seattle sports they absolutely do. Field Gulls
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
The Rams tried to trade for A.J. Brown, failed, almost traded Davante Adams to make room for the trade that failed, and then watched Adams’ $6 million roster bonus vest on Sunday, locking him into the 2026 roster. Mike Florio reported that the Rams “tapped out of the talks” with Philadelphia. The good news for Sean McVay is he still has Nacua and Adams. The bad news is everyone now knows he was actively trying to replace Adams, which is the kind of thing receivers tend to notice. Also, they’re playing the 49ers in Melbourne in Week 1. At 10:20 a.m. local time on a Friday morning. In a cricket stadium. On the other side of the planet. The NFL’s commitment to “growing the game” apparently means growing it at times and places where no human being would voluntarily watch football.
NINERS
The 49ers signed Christian Kirk to a one-year, $6 million deal, adding him to a receiver room that already includes Mike Evans (32, played eight games in 2025), Ricky Pearsall, and the ghost of Brandon Aiyuk, who apparently stopped going to meetings, stopped going to the training room, and eventually stopped going to the building entirely before being fined into oblivion. George Kittle described visiting Aiyuk in the weight room like it was a prison visitation. Kyle Shanahan’s 2026 strategy continues to be “collect enough complicated situations and hope the talent outweighs the chaos.” They finished with 20 sacks last year. Adding Christian Kirk does not fix that.
CARDINALS
Aaron Rodgers is still a free agent. The Cardinals still need a quarterback. SI on Cardinals floated the possibility that Arizona could “kick the tires” on a Rodgers signing thanks to OC Nathaniel Hackett, who coached Rodgers during his back-to-back MVP seasons in Green Bay. Rodgers himself said on Pat McAfee that there’s “no contract offer or anything” from anyone. The Cardinals’ 2026 quarterback situation is Jacoby Brissett and Gardner Minshew, and the franchise’s big free-agent pitch is apparently “remember when you liked your coordinator 5 years ago?” SI noted Arizona’s season is “rapidly projecting like it could be a repeat of 2025.” Their record in 2025 was 3-14. That’s not a projection. That’s a diagnosis.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
The Seahawks’ 2025 Super Bowl run featured a defense that allowed a league-low 3.7 yards per carry. But the franchise’s first truly dominant defense came in 1984, when the Seahawks led the NFL in total defense and sacks. That unit was anchored by a fearsome defensive tackle who would go on to record 116 career sacks over 14 seasons. Who was that player?
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Jacob Green. The defensive end (often listed at DT in early years of his career) was drafted by Seattle in the first round of the 1980 draft out of Texas A&M and spent his entire 12-year career with the Seahawks, recording 97.5 sacks as a Seahawk (116 total is sometimes cited with unofficial totals). He was inducted into the Seahawks Ring of Honor.
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