Hunter Henry reveals one positive about reflecting on Patriots' Super Bowl loss to Seahawks

Earlier this offseason, New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye admitted that his team's 29-13 Super Bowl loss to the Seattle Seahawks this past February was a "humbling" experience. 

While speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Patriots tight end Hunter Henry revealed that he has gone back and "watched a little" of the championship defeat. 

Hunter Henry glad that Super Bowl loss still "stings"

"It still stings, to be honest with you," Henry admitted, per Mark Daniels of MassLive. "Obviously, we didn’t play to the capability that we wanted to play at all on the biggest stage, and that was very disappointing and hard to process for a while. Definitely has taken a while. It still stings. But I think that is good. That’s good that it stings. It’s good. It makes you want to work a little harder to get all the way to the end. To then not achieve it was hard."

The New England offense mostly had a night to forget on Feb. 8, as it was held scoreless for over three quarters of action. Seattle sacked Maye six times and forced him into committing three turnovers (one fumble, two interceptions), the last of which resulted in the Seahawks scoring a defensive touchdown late in the contest.

"Obviously, getting there was big, but we didn’t make it all the way. We didn’t do enough," Henry added. "So, you’ve got to look at yourself in the mirror. What can you do more? How can you be better? How can I be a better teammate? How can I be a better player so that at the end, we can hoist that trophy and not be the one to walk off the field?"

Losing the Super Bowl wasn't the ending to the story the Patriots had in mind

The New England defense produced a solid Super Bowl performance, as the Seahawks scored just 12 points over the game's first three quarters. Nevertheless, Patriots linebacker Robert Spillane seems to wish he and his teammates could have done more to potentially spark the team's offense at Levi's Stadium.

"It’s disappointing," Spillane said of the Super Bowl defeat. "It stings. It hurts. It feels like that wasn’t supposed to be a part of our journey, but obviously it is. All you can do from that is learn from it, grow as a person as a player, and that’s our focus."

Focusing on the task at hand could be difficult for Spillane and Co. amid the controversy involving head coach Mike Vrabel and longtime NFL reporter Dianna Russini that seemingly will hover over the Patriots for the foreseeable future.