I’ve been pretty silent about who I think will win the Super Bowl mostly out of respect for my friends lining up on either side of the equation. The fact is these teams are not actually evenly matched. The road to this disparity lies in their past schedule. You see it when you look at their loss to the Colts and again in the way they closed out the season. While the games were wins, and seemingly big wins, the team exposed their fatal weakness: The Seahawks cannot sustain offensive drives unless the passing game is effective.
I’ve heard all the talk about the weather and Manning (his accuracy supposedly dips in the cold), but i’m not convinced. The Legion of Boom is an awesome secondary that, despite this, will be hard pressed to cover the 3 star wide outs and the suddenly phenomenal TE that Manning has to work with. If that wasn’t enough, Knowshon Moreno isn’t just playing for a ring, he’s playing for his career. Moreno is set to become a free agent after the season, and given the arrival of Monte ‘can’t’ Ball, it is unlikely he will be resigned. As they said in Gladiator, “What we do here echoes in eternity.” or at least in the draft war rooms as the management teams decide to use Moreno as a stopgap or burn an early pick on an RB.
If there is anything that cements my pick it is the preseason thrashing the Broncos took at the hands of the Seahawks. I never made it to the pros–barely made it to college–but I understand the ego and pride that goes into playing and even coaching. See, the Broncos aren’t just here to win a game either. The Broncos came this far to lower the boom on the Legion.
Some Thoughts:
- In a week where news breaks of a young woman being beaten to death, ostensibly over a photobombing incident and another woman makes the news after her ex-husband requests that she stay on living in the family home with him and his new family as their housekeeper, there isn’t much of a wow factor I can add.