Seahawks vs Broncos in the Superbowl

[BlueStreak]

14. That's how I see it also.

Seattle has the best defense, but you don't sack Manning. He gets rid of the ball as quickly as he has to to avoid the sack, and more often than not, he completes the pass when there is a hard rush.

Living in Indy, I have watched a whole lot of Manning's games. It almost never works to blitz him. He hopes you do blitz because that means there will be somebody open and he is uncanny about finding the guy left uncovered by the blitz. Over the course of the game, if you blitz 8 times, that might work twice, but Manning will sting you bad 3 of the other 6 times. It is not a good bet to blitz him very often.

I can't see Denver being very successful running, but they have gone against conventional wisdom. Most people say, "Establish the run to open up the play action passing game". With Manning, it works just as well (or better) to say "Establish the pass to loosen up the defense for your running game". Basically there are two ways to wear down the defense. Most people want to talk about pounding and pounding with the run so that the defense can't stop much by the 4th quarter. Well, it takes a lot out of players to have to chase down receivers every play, especially against a hurry-up offense.

I think this is the worst possible match-up for the Seattle defense.

If SF had won, I'd call this a pick-em game because Kaepernick can be so explosive as a runner. He is very hard to contain. But I don't see this as such a close game.

P.S. Andrew luck beat Manning, Wilson, AND Kaepernick this year in their match-ups.