After this weekend we will officially know the Super Bowl teams. The Seattle Seahawks play the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle on Sundayand the Denver Broncos play the New England Patriots in Denver on Sunday. There are a lot of debates on who will win but my bet is on the Seahawks and the Patriots.
In the Wild Card round The Philadelphia Eagles lost to the New Orleans Saints in Philadelphia 26-24 with a game winning field goal. The Green Bay Packers fell to the San Francisco 49ers in Green Bay 23-20 with a game winning field goal. The Indianapolis Colts came back from a twenty eight point deficit making the second biggest comeback in NFL playoff history to the Kansas City Chiefs with a final score of 45-44. The San Diego Chargers beat the Cincinnati Bengals pretty easily with some help from a few mistakes from the Bengals 27-10.
In the Divisional Round The Denver Broncos beat the San Diego Chargers with some clutch plays by Peyton Manning in the last 3 minutes of the game winning 24-17. The New England Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts easily with a score of 43-22 with an outstanding game by LaGarrette Blount with a 73 yard run which is the second longest run in playoff history. The Seattle Seahawks beat the New Orleans Saints 23-15 while holding Jimmy Graham to one catch the whole game. The San Francisco 49ers knocked off the number two seed, the Carolina Panthers, pretty easily with a final score of 23-10.
I pick the Seattle Seahawks to go to the Super Bowl because they are an amazing home team with a home record of 16-1 in the past 17 games at home. The Seahawks have an elite defense and will shut down Frank Gore and Colin Kaepernick while their offense will dominate in either the passing or running game. The San Francisco 49ers will attempt to shut down either the Seattle Seahawks passing or running game, but they can't shut down both against the Seahawks offense.
I chose the New England Patriots to go to the Super Bowl because Peyton Manning does not have a very good playoff history. Not only that but the New England Patriots are the underdog and that gives Tom Brady another reason to perform well and silence the critics. The Denver Broncos don't have the best defense and the New England Patriots don't have a bad defense even though they don't have Jerod Mayo and Vince Wilfork.
After the Final Four I predict that the New England Patriots will beat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl mostly because it is in New York and it will be extremely cold. The New England Patriots are used to the cold in New England as the Seattle Seahawks are not accustomed to that kind of cold weather in Seattle. Tom Brady has been on the big stage before, where Russel Wilson is a young quarterback but will surely have at least one ring when he retires. Even though the Seattle Seahawks have one of the top three defenses in the NFL (probably the best) they are not used to playing against quarterbacks like Tom Brady. Once again the cold, in my opinion, is the biggest factor. In all the New England Patriots will reign Super Bowl Champions.
By: Emilio Suarez
