by David Zizmor

It’s always tough at this stage it’s about one team that gets hot at the end of the season and into the playoffs and kind of rolls through the post season you saw the New York Giants a few years ago and the Baltimore Ravens which used to go in against the San Francisco 49ers teams that you don’t normally expect to go into the playoffs but end up getting there. We don’t know if we have that team yet and it’s tough to say when you have a divisional playoff game.

There are still four teams from the AFC and NFC of each conference that haven’t played yet. It’s tough to envision anyone knocking off the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC. They were just too good, they were just muddling along from the early part to the middle part of the season. Bobby Wagner came from an injury and a couple other guys came back.

The ball started going down hill and things didn’t start clicking for the Seahawks and you saw in late November starting with that 49ers game and through December the Hawks were just knocking everybody’s heads in. There was just no chance when you took the field against them, they played some teams that were just weak and the 49ers weren’t playing well.

The Hawks faced Arizona when the Cardinals quarterback Ryan Lindley was facing them and the Seahawks are playing as good of football as they have been all season. This is a team that gets their home field advantage and as good of a home field advantage as anybody has in the league and their playing the Carolina Panthers whose been despite their 7-8-1 record playing actually relatively well for the season.

The Hawks aren’t going to be scared by the playoffs because the Panthers had to play them the last two years and they were in the playoffs and it’s not something new to them anytime you got to play in Seattle in the post season it’s always a real uphill battle and I don’t think Carolina is talented enough to hang with the Seahawks. Whether it’s Green Bay or Dallas Seattle would end up facing one of them in the championship the Packers and the Cowboys are flawed teams.

Green Bay and Dallas have very strong offenses and very weak defenses and maybe Seattle is not as quite as dynamic as either of those teams they have an amazing defense that have an answer for the other teams offenses. The Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers is the best quarterback in the NFL right now but Rogers doesn’t have what it takes to get through the Seattle defense. I love Aaron Rogers if somehow Carolina knocks off the Seahawks then all bets are off.

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