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aeneas1
so what are we looking at, the hawks throttling a top offensive team again in the super bowl, as they did last year? maybe the patriots throttling the hawks in a screw the detractors statement game? or a close game that goes down to the wire? seems that this game could go in a number of directions that wouldn’t be very surprising. except for the patriots hanging a bunch of offensive points on the hags, i think that would be pretty surprising.
the bills had the 3nd ranked defense in offensive points allowed this year and the pats hung 37 on them in the first meeting (brady sat out the second half in the second meeting, the last game of the season). the pats’ offense also hung 34 on the 2nd ranked defense (lions) and 35 on the 9th ranked defense (ravens). that said, i would be surprised if the pats’ offense hung a bunch of points on the hawks’ defense this weekend.
btw, the pats and seahawks have met once before since carroll has been the hags’ hc, in 2012… the patriots rolled up a bunch of offensive yards, a whopping 475, and a whopping 26 first downs, against seattle’s #1 ranked defense, and led 23-10 in the 4th quarter. but the seahawks rallied for 14 points behind two wilson td passes and won 24-23.[/quote]