PHOENIX—On Monday afternoon at the famous Arizona Biltmore hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald made his way to the McArthur Ballroom for his car wash of media requests and sit-down interviews that included EPSN, the Up & Adams show, and Movin' The Chains on SiriusXM.

Macdonald donned a navy-blue crewneck-style shirt, grey pants, a pair of P448 sneakers and a silver watch on his left wrist.

He entered a large, dimly lit, conference room for a sit-down interview, which would be a feature for ESPN. Macdonald began walking towards the set of the interview, but stopped and turned to Seahawks chief communications officer, Dave Pearson, to ask what exactly the interview would be about.

Pearson responded, "It's a feature."

"On who?" Macdonald asked.

"You." Pearson responded, as the room full of camera operators, producers and public relations staff laughed at the interaction.

The interaction, while simple and seemingly mindless, demonstrated just how "normal" Macdonald has tried to treat everything, since winning Super Bowl LX on February 8, not thinking twice about the fact that the interview could be about himself rather than someone else. And while Macdonald has tried to keep everything as routine as possible, everyone around him has not.

Just two years ago, Macdonald was at his first NFL Annual Meetings as head coach of the Seahawks and taking questions about who would be the Seahawks quarterback that season.

Last season, the talk was all about receiver DK Metcalf and quarterback Geno Smith.

This season, it's all the the latest Super Bowl champion.

Macdonald said the sheer volume of media requests increased this year.

"It's just more," he said.

As he sat down in an oversized leather armchair, in a space with moody lighting, for his ESPN interview with Lindsey Thiry, it took Macdonald a few minutes to get settled in the chair, questioning whether to rest one arm on the armrest, clasp both hands in his lap, or put both arms on each armrest. He decided his left arm on the armrest was the most comfortable and natural.

"How's your son?" Thiry asked as Macdonald was getting settled.

"He doesn't love me yet, but he likes me," Macdonald joked back.

At 1:05 p.m. Macdonald's first interview began, and Macdonald was asked about his childhood, high school, and college days.

Macdonald shared that his sisters are his superheroes, that he and his dad would break down film of his 7^th grade football games and that while in high school, on the drive to school, he would watch America's Game on his phone rather than listen to music.

At 1:18 Thiry was given the nod to wrap the interview, and by 1:23 Macdonald was preparing to leave the ballroom.

To his surprise when he walked out of the ballroom, New York Giants head coach and a mentor to Macdonald, John Harbaugh, was waiting outside the room for his interview with ESPN. Macdonald and Harbaugh chatted for a few quick minutes before Harbaugh was whisked away.

Macdonald's next stop was an interview with longtime New York Daily News reporter Gary Myers, who is currently writing a book about both John and Jim Harbaugh and wanted to talk with Macdonald who has a good relationship with the brothers and family in general.

His interview with Myers was less than 10 minutes.

After that Macdonald was escorted to another end of the conference space for an interview with podcaster and former reporter for The Ringer, Kevin Clark. The video interview ended at 1:43 p.m.

Macdonald's next stop wasn't until 2 p.m. so he checked his phone, drank some water and chatted with people passing through the building.

At 1:58 p.m. Macdonald and Pearson walked outside to the set of Up & Adams with Kay Adams, who was wrapping up an interview as Macdonald arrived. The producer of the show greeted Macdonald and Pearson and asked, "How long do we have?"

Pearson let the producer know that Macdonald had another interview at 2:15 p.m.

Adams talked with Macdonald about rewatching the Super Bowl, which he's only done once, Jaxon Smith-Njigba's extension, as well as Macdonald's sneaky good talent being thumb wars of all things.

After Macdonald's interview with Adams finished, he and Pearson began walking back toward the Biltmore hotel entrance. Macdonald thought he was finished for the day, but Pearson let Macdonald know that he had one more interview for the day, and the interview ended up being one of Macdonald's favorites.

"Oh the radio?" Macdonald asked as they were walking towards the set.

At 2:15 p.m. Macdonald was putting on his headset and getting settled across from Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller of Movin' The Chains on Sirius XM.

Kirwan, Miller and Macdonald chatted about the Smith-Njigba extension, when Witherspoon's extension would get done and the sped-up timeline of the offseason before they wrapped up at 2:28 p.m.

After his hour-and-a-half whirlwind of media obligations, Macdonald headed back to the hotel to return to his room.

The Super Bowl-winning head coach feels like the same person he was before he won the big game, even if the interview requests and attention he's getting now reflect otherwise.

"You know what's funny, it's really cool," Macdonald said. "But I don't really think about it until somebody brings it up to me. I feel like I'm the same person, I think that puts everything in perspective. Why are we actually doing what we do? It's really just to defend our way of life, that we can be Seahawks and put great emphasis on people and enjoy how we go about our business and the people we're with every day. If we would have lost the game, I would have hopefully felt the same and felt the same about our team, have the same amount of pride in what we were able to accomplish last year."