Time to eat my words

So as you are all well aware, the Seattle Seahawks pulled off the upset and beat the defending Super Bowl champs, the New Orleans Saints. In my first blog, I wrote about why the Seahawks should have thrown the last game of the season, to avoid the playoffs, and get a much better draft pick. One of my reasons was because I believed that the Saints would just destroy the Seahawks....and then I was wrong. And holy crap, what a game. I don't know where that Seahawks team has been all year, but it was nice to finally see them.

Here are a couple notable fun facts for the game. The Saints have one of the better pass defenses in the league, and have only allowed 13 passing touchdowns all year. The Seahawks had four passing touchdowns in that game. A large part of that success was Matt Hasselbeck. He was on his game. A lot of Seahawks fans have grown to hate him over the past few losing seasons, but he just shut them up. He was fantastic. There was several passes that where so perfectly thrown, that no defenders could have stopped him. Another interested fact, yesterdays playoff game was the first time we had a 100 yard running back all season.  Marshawn Lynch ran for 131 yards and a touchdown. He had a 67 yard run in the last few minutes of the game to help secure the victory. And man, that was one of the best runs I have ever seem. He broke 8 tackles from seven different guys, stiff armed someone so bad that the defender flew five yards the opposite direction, and then scored. Man it was just an amazing game.

With this victory, people will stop mocking the Seahawks for not deserving to be in the playoffs. The NFC Division Champs just earned respect throughout the league. This win was something the city of Seattle needed. Congradulations to the entire team, as well as Pete Carroll.