Who wins the Super Bowl?

Blow out.

Noodle arm in the snow throwing ducks out there ... I agree with the Hawks winning rather easily ... say 34-17.

In all seriousness, the Hawks defense can and should be able to put pressure with the front 4 and marginal blitzes - they've done so all season.

Manning doesn't have the arm to be able to beat us down the field - particularly in what should be cold and probably windy conditions.

I expect that we'll roll our Cover 3 up a bit and make it not only hard, but extremely punishing on the Denver WRs for their short routes.

Denver's defense will probably be the worst that we've seen in well over a month. Beast should have a huge game and I expect that Wilson will make at least a handful of plays moving out of the pocket.

Denver will get their yards, but they will make more mistakes than we will ... it's part of the Manning legend in big games.

Is Eli playing in this game?

Last I checked, this Hawks team bitch slapped Eli 23-0 and forced him into 5 picks in the same building.

So if Eli is the more successful Manning in big games, then Peyton better start praying right now.

Anybody that has watched any number of Broncos games this year will realize that Manning doesn't have great arm strength anymore and that whatever he has left tends to go south in a hurry in cold weather. What he has left is the fact that he sees the game better than anybody else, is a tremendous field general, creates mismatches for his offense, and is able to anticipate throws better than anybody else.

Against the Seahawks, he's going to have a number of problems. First, unlike most teams, we are able to matchup with the Denver WRs as well as have a reasonable option to cover the TE. There was a great article last week that explained why our defense is so good (http://grantland.com/features/whos-laughing-now/) in that it combines the best elements of zone and man defense. Since Manning can't push the ball down the field effectively, we'll probably be able to play more of a Cover 1 w/ both man and zone principals against Denver instead of a Cover 3 in order to take away Manning's preferred short throws and force him into testing his arm against the best secondary in football. Third, because we don't have to cheat to stopping the passing game, we will still be able to employ the numbers needed to slow down the Denver running game. Finally, the biggest challenge in Denver's passing game IMO is contending with their screen game ... which is often neutralized by defenses that have significant speed.

Defensively, Denver's taken massive injury hits on the DL this season and good teams for the most part have been able to successfully run against them. Their secondary has been a massive failure most of the year and given our ability to run the ball straight downhill, I expect that we'll get more than a few opportunities to hit them deep in the game with play action passes. Moreover, without Von Miller, the Denver pass rush is really lacking in the edge passer department compared to most of the teams that we've played over the last month that have done a good job in containing Russell Wilson inside the pocket and limiting his ability to compromise defenses with his ability to scramble. I don't anticipate that Denver will be able to adequately contain Wilson.

Seattle's defense is in my opinion often underrated given that they play things close to the vest to ensure that they don't make turnovers that compromise their defense. Special teams is a tremendous weapon for this team. Forcing any team to go the length of the field consistently against this defense will not be a winning formula. However, one consistency that this offense shows is the ability to make a handful of big plays during the game that often lead to scores. Where this offense gets dangerous is if the opposition isn't able to contain the Hawks in scoring off of 10+ play drives. We'll score a handful of points off of big plays. But if we can get 2-3 drives in the Super Bowl that are 10+ play drives, we'll get close to 30 points - which I'll take my chances with that and this defense.

When people have pissed me off all weekend by basically saying "why" to the short responses, you get the long responses as a giant fuck you.

Tequilla said:

Chuck,

You want to take off the gloves? You want to roll?

Free Pub.

while I respect Denver's run defense, Lynch just ran for 100 on SF.
It's becoming clear Lynch dialed it back at the end of the regular season.
I think Lynch might run for 150, Wilson will make one or two big plays off of PA.
The defense will do just enough as well
Seattle 27 Denver 23.
The favorite doesn't always win the Super bowl BTW, Ravens, Giants, Saints, and giants were all dogs.
Steelers and Packers were favorites

phineas said:

if pete carroll wins the super bowl, what would be left to criticize him about?

Richard Sherman