Which team will win Super Bowl LX?

[Maxperson]

So is Seattle's defensive rush that good, the Patriot's offensive line that bad, or was it a coaching issue? Seattle made New England look like children trying to play ball.

 

[Maxperson]

I’m going with (checking the final score) the Seahawks.

You could replace (checking the final score) with, (looking at the first 5 minutes of play) and come away with the same level of certainty.

 

[Maxperson]

From what I understand, the lip syncing was sooooo bad with Kid Rock. Worse than anything Mili Vanilli ever did.

From what I've seen, the preliminary numbers were 135-142 million watching the Superbowl Halftime show, and 5-6 million watching the alternative show. Not a resounding success for the alternative.

 

[payn]

So is Seattle's defensive rush that good, the Patriot's offensive line that bad, or was it a coaching issue? Seattle made New England look like children trying to play ball.

I think its more of Seattle's D and plan were so good. This had "coach stuck to game plan until they were forced to abandon game plan" written all over it for the Pats.

 

[Sacrosanct]

MVP is a regular-season award. Using playoff results to justify a selection is bad post-hoc rationalization.

This is true, but I think the playoffs exposed that Maye had a cakewalk schedule. He wasn't playing the competition that Stafford was playing, so really it shouldn't have been close. We shouldn't need the playoffs to know that a QB against weak teams is gonna have good stats. Stafford had great stats against the hardest teams in the league. I say this as a Seahawks fan who hates the Rams

Wearing my little Seahawk fan hat, I'd be overjoyed with that defense, and happy with how Darnold and his O line and special teams were able to just keep chipping away against a strong defense, doing was was needed to get the win. Kenneth Walker III is also a monster (especially for 5' 9"). Total stud.

I had this hat on. It says the Seahawks Superbowl Champions. Which means I've had it since the last SB win. I only wear it when the Hawks are in the SB, so this was only the second time I wore it in 11 years.

 

[Scribe]

Maye has the chance to develop after this.

I just wonder if whatever he was getting his shoulder shot up/frozen for, requires some offseason surgery.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

From what I've seen, the preliminary numbers were 135-142 million watching the Superbowl Halftime show, and 5-6 million watching the alternative show. Not a resounding success for the alternative.

Even ignoring political aspects and people not wanting to channel switch, I think that also reflects the relative popularity of the acts involved. Is Bad Bunny at least 25x more popular by all possible measurements than Kid Rock in 2026 AD? Yeah probably. I'm pretty sure even at Kid Rock's height of popularity in say, 2005 (distant days), if Bad Bunny had existed then he'd still have been many times more popular.

(As an aside, man, "Kid" Rock, you're 55, you're literally a grandad, you can't keep calling yourself that! He wasn't even really a "kid" by the time he got popular, he was 35 in 2005!)

 

[GreyLord]

This is true, but I think the playoffs exposed that Maye had a cakewalk schedule. He wasn't playing the competition that Stafford was playing, so really it shouldn't have been close. We shouldn't need the playoffs to know that a QB against weak teams is gonna have good stats. Stafford had great stats against the hardest teams in the league. I say this as a Seahawks fan who hates the Rams

I had this hat on. It says the Seahawks Superbowl Champions. Which means I've had it since the last SB win. I only wear it when the Hawks are in the SB, so this was only the second time I wore it in 11 years.

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Two things on the picture...

That look your dog is giving you...

and Two...I want a closer look at the bookshelf in the background!

 

[Mannahnin]

So is Seattle's defensive rush that good, the Patriot's offensive line that bad, or was it a coaching issue?

I think a little from column A, a little from column B.

Both defenses were excellent and aggressive.

Seattle's O line, Darnold, and Walker were just good enough to make yards and get four field goals in the first three quarters. Maye and his were just not quite good enough to hold off the defenders and connect for receptions. Several missed opportunities off the hands of receivers or where there was an open man but Maye was just under too much pressure to find him. On the other side, Darnold was within a hair's breadth of being sacked several more times but kept escaping.

Seattle made New England look like children trying to play ball.

That's not the game I saw at all. The score difference was within 9 points in the first half and 12 until the 4th quarter! Though Maye is very young, and the panicked expression on his face during the replay of one (good!) scramble was pretty telling. I think if he had a couple more seasons under his belt this could have gone the other way.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Two things on the picture...

That look your dog is giving you...

He's wondering why I'm not on the couch snuggling with him.

and Two...I want a closer look at the bookshelf in the background!

An older pic, as I've added several books from Agatha Christie, Dragonlance, Dean Koontz, and Madeline Miller since then.

My gaming bookshelf is in my office, although I have plenty of non-gaming books here as well. I'm not very well organized lol.