Before heading to the Seattle Seahawks’ championship ceremony and parade on Wednesday morning, outspoken linebacker Ernest Jones IV joined “Up & Adams” and had a message for all the doubters.
Host Kay Adams noticed Jones’ shirt during the interview and asked what he was wearing when he tilted his camera to give a full frontal view of Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold flipping the bird. Jones and a couple of other Seahawks wore the shirts to the ceremony with Darnold’s blessing as a statement to all who doubted the QB and the Seahawks all season.
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Jones doubled down on his message on stage during the ceremony.
“If you got anything to say about my QB, if you got anything to say about my defense, if you got anything to say about our O-line, and you got anything to say about the city of Seattle … I got two words for you … F**k you!”
Few outside the Seahawks believed in Darnold to this point. Even after leading the Minnesota Vikings to 14 wins in 2024, Minnesota opted to let Darnold enter free agency. That’s when the Seahawks swooped in to sign him, and the rest is history. Not only was Darnold an underdog, but this Seahawks team was an underdog all season.
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Keeping with the theme of having smoke for everybody, Jones took a shot at Rams wideout Puka Nacua following the Super Bowl victory in defense of Darnold. Nacua took to social media and mocked Darnold in a social media post, which prompted an immediate response from Jones to his former teammate. Jones won a Super Bowl in 2021 as a rookie with the Rams.
Seattle capped a 10-game winning streak to end the season, defeating the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, 29-13. Even as Seattle was in the midst of finishing the regular season on a seven-game winning streak, capturing the NFC’s No. 1 seed and home-field advantage in the NFL playoffs, the Seahawks remained overlooked by many.
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It wasn’t until Seattle beat San Francisco with a dominant defensive performance in Week 18 to lock up home-field advantage that the Seahawks began to open the eyes of pundits and fans on the national scene. For Darnold, this Super Bowl is vindication, a middle finger in the face of everyone who’d written his NFL career off as a bust.
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