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They were also 1st in passing defense so it's not just the sacks that matter. They often only rush 4 but still manage to get the QB moving so they have to throw on the move or off balance. That is the key to their entire defense. The Pats ability to maintain the pocket will be the x factor imo. BB always manages to find a steller O line no matter what he is dealt so it will be no easy task for the Hawks D.

That's true, playing a team that only rushes 4 is interesting. The run doesn't really set up the pass, the pass would more so have to set up the run by getting the line backers to think "drop back" first and run draws.

Either way, tons of great matchups all over the field on both sides of the wall. Wilfork vs Unger should be good times.

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24 hours until I leave for Phoenix. Won't lie here I am pretty darn excited. Borrowing a Seahawks jersey from a friend. I just own a Burleson one. Thinking I'm gonna rock the Joey Galloway one.

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I have a Hasselbeck jersey. Dude was awesome. He should have had a superbowl ring instead of Rapistburger.

Hes still the backup QB in Indianapolis. $3.5M a year to mentor the neckbeard and toss a few balls now and then. Good deal all around.

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I have a Hasselbeck jersey. Dude was awesome. He should have had a superbowl ring instead of Rapistburger.

Hes still the backup QB in Indianapolis. $3.5M a year to mentor the neckbeard and toss a few balls now and then. Good deal all around.

Best Hasselback moment ever

Still lol to this day

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Pats had a false fire alarm go off in their hotel for 10 mins at 1 am the night they landed in Arizona and it happened again two days later today. Twice in three days...something's up lol :P

Definitely is Richard Sherman trolling your team.

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Lynch is the fracking man!! Sits down, tells off the media straight to the point. Says he told them he wouldn't talk and still they try to make something out of nothing. After about 1.5 mins, says he has 3 minutes left to be here and in that time he'll sit down and watch the media like they watch him.

He just finished...Lynch just went off..said whatever the frack he felt like, timer goes off, and he's gone. Beast.

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Lynch is the fracking man!! Sits down, tells off the media straight to the point. Says he told them he wouldn't talk and still they try to make something out of nothing. After about 1.5 mins, says he has 3 minutes left to be here and in that time he'll sit down and watch the media like they watch him.

He just finished...Lynch just went off..said whatever the frack he felt like, timer goes off, and he's gone. Beast.

yup hes the man all right. Just something to think about (i know lynch didn't)

According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 78% of National Football League players are either bankrupt or in financial trouble within two years of retirement. Many high profile players venture into broadcasting jobs after their career to keep the money flowing in. Who the hell would hire this guy After this stunt?

who votes in the nhl hall of Famers? I thought it was media personnel? If so who the hell in the media would vote for this clown?

lastly, what's the big deal? Why cant he talk to the media for 5 minutes. Just humour us. 99% of the other pro athletes in the world can manage it. I'd be embarrassed if a sedin pulled a stunt like this. But they dont because they're a little classier than Mr. Lynch over there.

One guy on this team won't talk. You can't stop another guy on the team from yapping about him being the best all day. There has to be a happy middle.

I hope they get destroyed on sunday.

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It's your second super bowl in 2 years. You've already won it. Your wife/girlfriend is pregnant with your first child. You find out Saturday night that the child is being born tomorrow.

1. Do you miss the game to be there to witness your first born and support your significant other?

2. If you do play, are you distracted the entire time wondering how it's going, if it's happened, if any complications emerged, is the baby healthy.

3. If your the teammate of the soon to be father, do you support his decision to miss the game or be upset he's leaving.

If there's any parents in this thread, care to share your opinion? I'm not a parent but I couldn't imagine not being there for my first born especially after I've already reached the pinnacle of my career.

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It's your second super bowl in 2 years. You've already won it. Your wife/girlfriend is pregnant with your first child. You find out Saturday night that the child is being born tomorrow.

1. Do you miss the game to be there to witness your first born and support your significant other?

2. If you do play, are you distracted the entire time wondering how it's going, if it's happened, if any complications emerged, is the baby healthy.

3. If your the teammate of the soon to be father, do you support his decision to miss the game or be upset he's leaving.

If there's any parents in this thread, care to share your opinion? I'm not a parent but I couldn't imagine not being there for my first born especially after I've already reached the pinnacle of my career.

I was there to see my children being born, however, I wasn't on a SB roster at the time.

I would be at the game.....and I'm positive my wife would understand.

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I was there to see my children being born, however, I wasn't on a SB roster at the time.

I would be at the game.....and I'm positive my wife would understand.

I think if it happens to be the situation, Sherman will either quickly run to the hospital briefly and then comeback in time for the game or he'll play the game and run to the hosptial depending on the timing of it happens. No way he misses the game and like you said, it'd be completely understandable.

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Lynch is the fracking man!! Sits down, tells off the media straight to the point. Says he told them he wouldn't talk and still they try to make something out of nothing. After about 1.5 mins, says he has 3 minutes left to be here and in that time he'll sit down and watch the media like they watch him.

He just finished...Lynch just went off..said whatever the frack he felt like, timer goes off, and he's gone. Beast.

If you ask me, he's a loser.

He's in the "entertainment" industry and like it or not, people want to know things about him.

He's a great player but he needs to be more approachable to the media, and fans and drop that bloody attitude...or chip on his shoulder or whatever he's got.

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Pats had a false fire alarm go off in their hotel for 10 mins at 1 am the night they landed in Arizona and it happened again two days later today. Twice in three days...something's up lol :P

That's an old trick. It's usually the fans that do it. They better not get caught.

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Interesting take on the Hawks - not that I care, well...I cared enough to share it:

Have we forgotten the Seahawks’ checkered relationship with ethics?
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Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll. USA TODAY Sports photo by Joe Nicholson.

It’s been a rough week to be a New England Patriots fan.

The day after handily defeating the Indianapolis Colts, when they should have been celebrating the team’s thunderous win in the AFC Championship game, fans instead instantly found themselves on defense thanks to a few deflated footballs. Instantly, the legions of bitter Patriots haters around the nation — both fans and members of the media themselves — went on the offensive. Suddenly, people who had been silent about the NFL’s other, more serious, scandals found their voice to attack the New England Patriots.

Of course, the hatred isn’t because the Patriots have really been proven to have done anything wrong. It’s really because of the team’s enormous success over the years that they are a target; the faux outrage is just a mask for jealousy. While it’s true that Bill Belichick was once caught violating the rules, he and the team were appropriately punished for it and have moved on. That is truly the only questionable behavior during Kraft-Belichick-Brady era; they have otherwise been model NFL citizens.

If the many newly discovered moral centers in football fans were real, the team they would be hating in this Super Bowl would be the Seattle Seahawks, not the New England Patriots.

After all, it was their players who failed drug tests and were suspended in 2012. One of the players who tested positive was Richard Sherman, their star cornerback, though his suspension was overturned on appeal. Indeed, under Pete Carroll, the Seattle Seahawks have led the league in drug-related suspensions. Yet, strangely, there have been no calls for a wider investigation into the franchise, or for Carroll himself to be penalized in any way for the drug epidemic in his locker room.

Of course, questionable ethics is nothing new for Pete Carroll, whose checkered past should always be part of any conversation about him. After all, Carroll ended up back in the National Football League after fleeing his job coaching the USC Trojans as scandal embroiled that team. The NCAA found the team, under Carroll’s control, guilty of multiple recruiting violations — such as cash kickbacks for a star tailback and his family — but Carroll had already leapt into a promotion with his golden parachute by the time the findings came down. The NCAA forced USC to vacate a number of its wins, barred the Trojans from bowl games and docked the team 30 scholarships.

None of this seems to bother anyone anymore. Just as we have dismissed Sean Payton’s role in Bountygate with the New Orleans Saints, football fans seem more than ready and willing to grant Carroll a clean slate. Belichick, though, made a mistake and was penalized once, and yet it seems to dog him forever. Why the double standard?

The answer, of course, is that all of this isn’t about what the Patriots may or may not have done with any footballs, but the fact that they’re winners. That’s reason enough for most fans to assume guilt, labeling the Patriots the villains of the contest, despite the Seahawks’ many sins.

Not only are the Seahawks troubled as a franchise, they have the less appealing players. Marshawn Lynch’s constant trolling of the press by refusing to even speak to them makes him appear to be an arrogant prima donna. While the Seahawks players are saying our players aren’t that great, bashing Rob Gronkowski and Tom Brady, our coach praises them.

So if you find Tom Brady’s success obnoxious rather than inspirational that’s up to you. If you think Belichick is annoying, you can root against the New England Patriots as much as you want. Just don’t pretend you’re making an ethical decision by choosing to root for a team with an endemic culture of corruption instead. That’s not only ridiculous; now that you’re aware of Seattle’s history and ignorance is no longer an excuse, it’s supremely hypocritical. So root for whichever team you want on Sunday, just be honest about your motivation.

http://red207.bangordailynews.com/2015/01/29/have-we-forgotten-the-seahawks-checkered-relationship-with-ethics/

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