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With the game coming up, it's always practical to try to get to know the opponent as much as possible. Grantland has a pretty good read on him and just what kind of impact those kind of hits have in a game...
http://grantland.com/features/kam-chancellor-seattle-seahawks-super-bowl/?ex_cid=espnFB
http://grantland.com/features/kam-chancellor-seattle-seahawks-super-bowl/?ex_cid=espnFB
Demaryius Thomas saw him coming. They usually do. No one goes very long without looking for Kam Chancellor. And as Thomas sprinted across the field, there he was — the bad man in the dark visor who lurks in the depths of football’s best defense. Thomas had one thought as Peyton Manning let go and Chancellor let loose: Hold on to the ball.
He did, somehow, even as Chancellor lowered a shoulder and sent him sprawling.
Not that it mattered. It was the Broncos’ first completion, down just 5-0 with nearly 55 minutes left, but for Seattle, Super Bowl XLVIII was already over.
“To me,” says Chris Clemons,1 “that hit solidified the game for us. They didn’t run routes the same.”
Byron Maxwell, only a couple of yards away, had the best view. “I was just lookin’ at Demaryius’s face,” Maxwell says, “and I could see that he’d been hurt. I saw a little pain on there.” Earl Thomas leaped into Chancellor’s arms. Richard Sherman slapped him on the helmet.
“It wasn’t just him making noise,” Demaryius Thomas says about the aftermath of the hit. “It was a couple of other guys making noise. Basically saying they were there, and it was going to be like that all night.”