Bob Ryan: "Seahawks will be double digit favorites over anyone in Super Bowl"

[supafly]

Poor journalism, considering that many sports books have already posted Super Bowl point spreads for each matchup.

Seattle would be 2.5-3 point favorites over New England and 7 point favorites over Indianapolis.

Both N.England and Seattle are clearly favored this weekend, and the early SB line is NFC -3, so yes....you're logic is correct that Seattle would be -3 point favorites over N.England.

Should Indy win, on the other hand, I would expect the line to be much higher than 7. I'd have to agree that it'd clearly be in the double digits, as we've seen with many other SB's in the past.

 

[RxJock1120]

for those who follow Football Outsiders, the Seahawks faced the (out of 44 qualified);

36th ranked- newton
37th ranked- Carr
11th ranked- Eli
13th ranked- Alex Smith
20th ranked- Stanton
28th ranked- Kaep
24th ranked- Sanchez
28th ranked- Kaep
31st ranked- Lindley
35th ranked- Hill
36th ranked- newton

So, the DEFENSE OF THE CENTURY didnt play one qb who could tie his own shoes.

Pats over the same time frame?

3rd ranked- peyton
10th ranked- luck
15th rank- Stafford
2nd rank- rodgers
9th rank- rivers
12th rank- tannehill
32nd rank- geno
26th rank- orton
8th rank- Flacco

So seattle has played TWO Qbs who have been even average at the position since Halloween, and lost one of them.

I dont mind our chances as underdogs in that situation.

You make a good point. Then again Geno did a lot better against our D than he should have.

 

[PatsBoy12]

I'd prefer it this way and everyone else on the board should too.