{"id":8930,"date":"2014-02-02T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2014-02-02T22:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T03:17:43","slug":"malcolm-smith-wins-super-bowl-xlviii-mvp-award-as-seahawks-destroy-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/02\/malcolm-smith-wins-super-bowl-xlviii-mvp-award-as-seahawks-destroy-broncos\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Smith wins Super Bowl XLVIII MVP Award as Seahawks destroy Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/malcolmsmith.jpg\" alt=\"malcolmsmith\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/malcolmsmith.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/malcolmsmith-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/malcolmsmith-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nMalcolm Smith was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLVIII as the Seattle Seahawks thumped the Denver Broncos 43-8. Smith became the third linebacker to win the MVP Award after he <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/02\/manning-tosses-second-interception-returned-for-td-by-malcolm-smith-gif\/\" title=\"Manning tosses second interception, returned for TD by Malcolm Smith (GIF)\">ran a interception back<\/a> for a touchdown and later recovered a fumble.<\/p>\n<p>The game between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos turned into a let down quickly as the Seahawks jumped out to an early lead and never gave up.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Russell Wilson was removed from the game with just over two minutes left in the fourth quarter in favor of Tavaris Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>For the game Wilson was 18 of 25 for 206 yards and two touchdowns. He connected with eight different receives thoughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>With the win Pete Carroll becomes just the third coach to win the NCAA Championship and a Super Bowl. The other two were Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer, both who did so with the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>The 35 point win was the largest since the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills in 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Smith was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLVIII as the Seattle Seahawks thumped the Denver Broncos 43-8. Smith became the third linebacker to win the MVP Award after he ran a interception back for a touchdown and later recovered a fumble. The game between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos turned into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,633,216,429,631],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-malcolm-smith","tag-nfl","tag-russell-wilson","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}