Broncos' cheating accusation against Seahawks almost led to lawsuit in 2024, according to Mike Macdonald

This is one of the wildest stories you’ll ever hear in the NFL

This is one of the wildest stories you Last season almost ended with the Denver Broncos facing the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl, and if that game would have happened, there likely would have been some serious drama, because it seems the two head coaches don't like each other very much. "He's not my biggest fan," Macdonald recently said of Broncos' coach Sean Payton. During a recent interview with Graham Bensinger, Macdonald spilled the details on a wild story from 2024 involving Payton. In his first game ever as a head coach, Macdonald led his team to a 26-20 road win over the Broncos to open the 2024 season.

During the game, the Seahawks' defense seemed to always be one step ahead of Denver's offense: They forced three turnovers while holding the Broncos to just 231 yards. Since it was Week 1, Macdonald didn't have a lot of film on the Broncos, so he decided to turn to Twitter to see if he could find some plays they might use. "Fans will tape and post plays from training camp on Twitter, so it's public knowledge, so we took like a 100 plays from their training camp," Macdonald said. "We're scouting them." At some point after the game was played, Payton somehow found out about the Seahawks' social media scouting