Calling all Mailbag questions!
That's a wrap on the 2025 season. Let's get to ALL of your lingering questions.
Good morning, readers! Here’s hoping all members of the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks loaded up on Pedialyte and Advil ahead of all parade festivities. Win it all and you deserve to throw back a beer (or 12).
What a season it was in the NFL.
It’s only fitting that the last team standing is one nobody saw coming.
My red-eye flight touched down Tuesday AM. Taking a few days to recharge the batteries but, rest assured, we’re back at it this coming week. New here? If anything, the “offseason” (Bennett Brauer air quotes) is our favorite time of year at Go Long. We’ll spend many hours working sources to see what’s cookin’ behind the scenes.
Fully expect more columns, profiles, features and podcasts. Of course, Bob McGinn also brings his unparalleled draft series once again to our pages. (Last I checked, Bob was immersed in Senior Bowl practice film.)
Next week, I’ll examine what lessons the rest of the NFL can glean from Seattle’s unlikely title run.
We are also overdue for a mailbag.
Fire away with any questions on any topic at golongtd@substack.com. You can also drop questions in the comment section below. For answers, I’ll reach people around the NFL. Mailbags are exclusive to our paid subscribers.
Miss anything from Super Bowl Week in the Bay Area? All links are here, including our longform piece on Sam Darnold.
Rare Hawks: Why Ty Okada & Jake Bobo embody the Seattle Seahawks
Pod: SI’s Conor Orr on Super Bowl LX & Ahman Green on the Green Bay Packers
Q&A: Seahawks QB coach Andrew Janocko on the ‘resiliency’ of Sam Darnold
Real Football: Seattle Seahawks-New England Patriots Super Bowl LX Preview!
Carlton Davis: ‘I feel like it’s going to be another surprise win’
Southern Comfort: Patriots’ gator-huntin’ rookie Will Campbell is 1 of 1
‘It’s incredible:’ Super Bowl LX’s roots are in Ron Wolf’s Green Bay Packers
Pod: Stevie Johnson has a PSA for Buffalo Bills WR Keon Coleman!
Best Super Bowl storyline? Terrell Williams is cancer-free, back on the Patriots sideline
1 on 1: Seahawks GM John Schneider on Packers roots, Sam Darnold, building a winner (again)
Our piece on what led the Buffalo Bills to Joe Brady is also open:
'He wants to win the whole damn thing:' Inside the Buffalo Bills' decision to hire Joe Brady as HC
ORCHARD PARK, NY — Before the news lit up your cell phone, Brandon Beane knew for damn sure many of you would not be happy. He was briefed on public perception. Many outsiders would inevitably view the announcement of Joe Brady as the next Buffalo Bills head coach as status quo. Safe. Brady was the familiar name, the author …
Do people around the NFL see Campbell as a Tackle or a Guard?
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