NFL SUPERBOWL XLIX ......Official thread

[The Moose]

Fas1975 said:

Finally dragged my butt out of bed. First thing that popped into my ahead upon awakening. One yard. One measly yard. One freaking measly yard.

A properly poor decision really. Somebody just fked up. I don't remember seeing Lynch around the QB at the snap to run it anyway.

Such a shame especially after that epic drive all the way up to half time.

[IanUAE]

Watched the game at the Hooters restaurant by the hotel in New York (mostly Seahawks supporters). The place went nuts when Seattle scored the touchdown right at the end of the 1st half and with that unbelievable juggling catch.

Nobody could understand why Wilson threw the ball rather than go with a run play. Still guess the sports networks will tell me all I need to know why over the next 5 days!

We have heavy sleet / snow today so been advised to work from the hotel room which will help the slightly "aching" head.

[unrepentant]

Challo said:

What did surprise me was that Seattle have such lowly ranked receivers with Baldwin at 42, Kearse at 85 and Wilson (TE) at 120.

Shows how much they rely on either Lynch or Wilson (QB) to gain the yards and get them up the field.

Lynch was the highest points score at 25 overall for players who are not a kicker with 102 points.

If you look at those stats it does the pressure on Lynch to score and the defense to shut teams out.

The Seagulls whole offensive game is built on the back of Lynch and Wilson's ability to scramble. Scrambling QB's have a short shelf life as sooner of later they get clattered and they lose the appetite for scrambling (see Vick, RG III, Kaepernick etc..). If Lynch goes they're screwed as they have a very second rate passing attack. Their D are good but over rated and Brady took them apart in Q4 and he was able to find Vereen and Edelman in the slot all night.

[Matt..]

Now we have a really long wait until it's all back again

[kazste]

Yes but on the plus side were only about halfway through the hockey season and as much as i love football it would lose out to hockey every night.

[Wadeski]

unrepentant said:

Challo said:

What did surprise me was that Seattle have such lowly ranked receivers with Baldwin at 42, Kearse at 85 and Wilson (TE) at 120.

Shows how much they rely on either Lynch or Wilson (QB) to gain the yards and get them up the field.

Lynch was the highest points score at 25 overall for players who are not a kicker with 102 points.

If you look at those stats it does the pressure on Lynch to score and the defense to shut teams out.

The Seagulls whole offensive game is built on the back of Lynch and Wilson's ability to scramble. Scrambling QB's have a short shelf life as sooner of later they get clattered and they lose the appetite for scrambling (see Vick, RG III, Kaepernick etc..). If Lynch goes they're screwed as they have a very second rate passing attack. Their D are good but over rated and Brady took them apart in Q4 and he was able to find Vereen and Edelman in the slot all night.

I think the issue with quarterbacks who like to run is they get out-thought by good Ds. They tempt the QB into falling back to running, not throwing the football. The Patriots showed a little bit of that last night - they had Wilson running a lot, but mostly backwards and not really gaining a whole lot of yards, outside of some extremely fortunate catches. Compare that to Brady whose short throws and occasional sneaks are probably the more reliable play - especially against quality opposition.

Wilson is arguably better than Vick and RGIII, but I wonder if he will stand the test of time.