Seattle Seahawks Blog:
Make no mistake, the Seattle crowd will be pumped up for this weekend's game. Let's hope Holmgren has the troops ready for action and won't lay a dude as we have done the last 2 years first games.
Here's the article form the Sports Guy on ESPN....it couldn't be more dead on. Sent by a fellow Seattle Sports Blog fan from the Bay Area:
I wrote it last week, I'll write it again: Everyone is sleeping on these
guys. They finished 9-7 during a season when nearly everything went wrong;
now they're healthy and happy; they dumped their clubhouse cancer guys; they
added a pass rusher (Patrick Kerney) and an overqualified defensive
assistant (Jim Mora Jr., who nearly made the Super Bowl 30 months ago);
they're playing in one of the easiest divisions (the NFC West); and they'll
probably be favored in every 2007 game except Pittsburgh in Week 5 and
Philly in Week 12. And it's not like they haven't done it before. Throw in
their homefield advantage and skill position guys and they seem like the
safest bet in the NFC.
So why can you currently get 25-to-1 Super Bowl odds for them in Vegas?
Because it's no fun to pick the Seahawks. They've been there before, they
play in a smaller market, they have a bald quarterback, their uniforms are
boring, their best player is boring, their coach looks like he should be
wearing a sheriff's outfit and buying donuts, and if you say you've met more
than three Seahawks fans in your entire life and you're not from Seattle,
you're lying. Really, the only thing that stands out about them is their
crowd. Switch their roster with Dallas' roster and they'd be 7-to-1 odds
right now. Since they're in Seattle, nobody cares yet. But you will. Give it
a couple of months.
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