Seahawks WR Cooper Kupp Talks SB Repeat, Myles Garrett to Rams & More w/ Rich

Cooper Kupp checked in from Seattle a two-time Super Bowl champion, and Rich wanted to know how a defending champ avoids resting on its laurels. The receiver made clear the Seahawks have no interest in looking back.

Kupp speaks from fresh experience. You reach the mountaintop, he said, and a few days later everyone wants to talk about last year, but the only move is forward. That, to him, is why the NFL is the best league in the world: nothing stays still, every team adapts, and the moment you are stagnant, you get passed. So the Seahawks have treated OTAs as a competition, using every minute the rules allow.

The culture flows from head coach Mike McDonald, whose arrival speech has become the stuff of legend for how much of it came true. This year, Kupp said, McDonald simply doubled down, prophesizing the same universal truths about the game. Kupp reached for a line from an old Washington coach's book, the idea that you have to pay the awful price in the offseason, because anything worth achieving is hard. McDonald's plan, he stressed, is simple but not easy: show up, work, challenge each other, talk honestly, be one unit, and make Seattle a miserable place to visit.

On the offense, Kupp's warning was about complacency. With a new coordinator bringing fresh wrinkles, the trap is assuming you already know the playbook from last year and coasting through OTAs. There is enough new detail, he said, that a veteran has to stay locked into his study rather than lean on what he knew.

As for the quarterback, Rich asked whether a Super Bowl ring had changed Sam Darnold. Not really, Kupp reported. Darnold is the same robot he has always been, obsessed with getting things perfect, demanding the details and the why, always asking how much better the group can be. The only difference Kupp could find was that Darnold played a little more golf this spring, and claims his game is coming together. Allegedly.

Then came the Rams. Kupp's old team had just landed Myles Garrett, and he took the news in stride, noting the Rams are a very good team that made big moves, but insisting that every NFL opponent shows up wanting to beat you regardless of trades or reputations. The target, he said, comes with being champions, and the noise on top of it holds no weight.

The highlight was what came next. Rich floated the swirling idea that Aaron Donald might want to unretire and line up alongside Garrett. Kupp shut it down on the spot.

"I texted him and told him he's not allowed," Kupp said. "I already nipped it in the bud."

Asked if that meant the Avengers would not be uniting, Kupp softened only slightly. He loves Donald, loved sharing a field with him in Los Angeles, and knows that Aaron Donald is Aaron Donald regardless of age or time away. But the verdict stood: he already told him he cannot.

By the end, Rich had crowned him accordingly, the only man the show has ever found who could stop Aaron Donald from doing anything he wants.