Last February fortune and possibly a season of soft easy to grip footballs propelled the Pats and Tommy Brady to the Super Bowl and their last ring with Brady as QB.
That won't be the case this season. Ya....they have a weak division and will make it to the playoffs. The Colts have had a great off season ...the Pats... a horrible one with Browner and Revis both leaving so the AFC Championship game will be nothing like last season's blowout. It will be close. I am hoping that the Pats DO make it past Indy to a spot in the big show.
That said the Seahawks will absolutely CRUSH the Patriots in Super Bowl 50. Green Bay and Dallas should beat the Seahawks in their regular season matchups. Both get to play the Hawks at home in the regular season but those two will not stop the Seahawks in the NFC playoffs. AZ might give the Hawks a go for it in one of their two meetings.
ESPN rates the Hawks #1 and New England #2 after the draft and the bulk of free agency. Personally I believe that they are being kind to NE because they DID win the SB last season although by the slimmest of margins. Intercepting a team that by all other measures was certain to take the ball in from the 1 yard line with three tries left was a miracle and had up til that point never been done in a Super Bowl. The Patriots will be fortunate this season to make it through the playoffs. The loss of their two best DBs will be difficult to overcome as was seen by Seattle's struggles against inferior teams when both are healthy in Green Bay and NE.
Sorry Tommy...No More Soup For YOU!
Here's something to mull over this summer, Huggy...
How many teams have gone to three Super Bowls in three consecutive years...as you predict the Seahawks will...and what was their combined Super Bowl record?
That would be the Buffalo Bills who went to 4 in a row, losing them all...and the Miami Dolphins who went to three in a row with a record of 1-2. That's a combined record of 1 - 6.
As the saying goes...don't be counting your chickens before they hatch...
It's what we like to call A PREDICTION. Not an actual COUNTING.
Maybe you should be more concerned with the people that have already thrown down millions at the betting windows wagering that the Hawks will be back and win this season's Super Bowl.
I just analyze the players that come and go from what success they had last season adding to that the draft.
The Seahawks had the best off season in the NFL by the pundits agreement with my assessment. The Pats had one of the worst by many accounts.
A lot can and will happen between now and then but as they all prepare to blast through the gates a very young and strong Seahawk team got even stronger and better. An aging Pats team got weaker. I won't go on and on about the Hawks getting Jimmy Graham but he will add an element the already dependable Hawk offense lacked. The Seahawks suffered mightily with KO and Punt returns last year making the distance to score unusually long for the entire 2014 season. Tyler Lockette, possibly the fastest player in the NFL, will change that. It's a BIG deal to start from the 30-50 instead of from the 10-20 every exchange of possession.
Having a team that most of the NFL world considers #1 is hardly just me personally fantasizing. I like to break it all down as much as I can and it just so happens that I agree with the so-called experts.
Whether a team goes to one SB in a row or three is just coincidence and the results of factors that have nothing to do with historical repetition. Injuries, other teams getting stronger, fluke plays against close opponents, are all taken into account when a team finally makes it to a Super Bowl. Green Bay could have easily made it instead of Seattle last season but NOT for the
one lucky catch on
one play like the GB fans would have you believe. What REALLY made the NFC game as close as it was was for the same reason the SB was close. The HUGE number of Seattle's injuries on defense was the real reason GB was even able to keep the game within reach.
