But who do you think WILL win, pal?
The Broncos because Peyton Manning is their quarterback.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. â [U]Russell Wilson[/U]âs 37th NFL game will be the Super Bowl, but when the game begins, Wilson will have an advantage: He has already watched it.
âI visualize sequences,â he said Thursday. âI visualize certain plays. I visualize red zone. I visualize the game being played out in my head. I even visualize myself going to the line and making checks ⌠I visualize the stadium âŚâ
Sometimes he takes the visualization to extremes. This week, Wilson was talking to his roommate, running back [U]Robert Turbin[/U], about what he called âthe moment.â As Wilson says: âYou do the national anthem, and you are (standing) there and youâve got the patch on your chest, and you think about everything you have done individually to this point to get to the Super Bowl, and all of a sudden the ball is kicked off and youâve got those flashing lights. And then you really realize that youâre here. Thatâs a great feeling.â
Many NFL players would react to a speech like that from their roommate by nodding uncomfortably and saying âUh, thatâs great. Pass the Doritos.â But this is Wilson. He has a purity of purpose that is disarming. He answers questions patiently and speaks earnestly. He just gives you a sense that he believes, without trying too hard to prove it. This helps explain why a man who was considered a reach in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft could win Super Bowl MVP fewer than two years later.
A few years from now â heck, a few days from now â we may look back at Wilsonâs draft position the way we look at [U]Tom Brady[/U] being drafted 199th in 2000. We may wonder how he lasted that long. But at the time of the draft, the Wilson pick was controversial because people thought he went too early.
He is a small quarterback in a league of rather large men. The Seahawksâ general manager, John Schneider, explained the pick in an interesting way. Schneider didnât just say he liked Wilson, or that it is worth risking a third-round pick for a potential starter at the gameâs most important position. No, Schneider said Wilson was one of the three best players he scouted that season.
That was a bold comment. But if you watched Wilson in his lone year at Wisconsin, it made sense. Wilson was that good. Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, a former Badger, saw it.
âI was just watching as a fan,â Bevell said. âI couldnât believe how poised this guy was. It was like he was doing Pat And Go. Everything is storming around him, and he was just like, âOK,â pat (the ball) and go (throw down field). It was like he was doing a warm-up drill.â
The only question was whether Wilsonâs skills would translate in a league of bigger, stronger and faster players. A lot of teams obviously questioned that. They didnât see what Schneider saw. But their bigger mistake was that they didnât see what Wilson sees.
Teammates talk about Wilsonâs poise and command of the huddle. But he also has that purity of purpose after the ball is snapped. Wilson doesnât panic. He doesnât hurry or freeze. He is one of the best athletes playing quarterback in the NFL, and Bevell has designed some plays to âGet him out on the edge,â where he can take advantage of open space. But most Seattle passing plays are more conventional, and when the rush comes, Wilson does not tuck the ball and run.
âWhen he gets out of the pocket he is still looking downfield to make plays in the passing game,â receiver [U]Doug Baldwin[/U] said. âThat leaves big opportunities for us to get open. Itâs a little bit difficult for the receivers because at times we might be open and then he scrambles another way and we have to kind of run into coverage. Sometimes the plays donât always go as planned.â
Wilson is so good at extending plays, and so creative when he does it, that Bevell gives his guys routes after their routes â places to run when the play breaks down and Wilson scrambles.
âWe have our guidelines, our rules, specific to each play, where we are in the vicinity of Russell,â Baldwin says. âIf he is across the field from us, we have to do a certain thing in order to get his attention and get in his line of vision. There are rules. Youâve gotta know where everybody else is, and you canât go to the same spot.â
This is the hardest part of projecting quarterbacks. You can measure size, strength and speed. You can ask him what kind of tree he would be, whether he would rather be a cat or dog, and if he has ever been in a room with somebody who smoked a joint. But in the speed and abbreviated mayhem of every NFL play, how will the quarterback react? It is so hard to know. Most of the NFL did not see Russell Wilson coming. But Wilson always did.
I donât rate Wilson at all - for his sake I hope Lynch has the game of his life.
I donât rate your opinion
Clear day-broncos, snow bowl-Seahawks. Peyton is my favourite ever qb and Iâm sick of this 12th man shite, but the prospect of a certain gimp cheering like a simpleton on here with inane posts is disconcerting, so Iâm backing the team from the damp temperate climate like our own. Anyone ever watch it in sinnotts? Thinking of heading there
Hawks, no contest.
18,000 tickets or something unsold or available for Sunday. Seems 2 small time West Coast teams donât capture the imagination of your average Joe New Yorker.
Most low key bowl ever. Like you said, who gives a fuck about either of these franchises.
Thats mental. Hardly go on general sale?
Anything from $1k to $17k
Iâve already piled into the 23/20 Boylesports were giving about the Seahawks earlier in the week. It should be a very close game, but Manning hasnât faced anything near as good as our D and Iâm backing them to get us over the line.
Iâve had a few MVP bets too. The two QBS are rightly very short prices but there may be value elsewhere at big odds.
Wes Welker 40/1. Manning wonât try and bomb it out in tricky conditions against a D that is an interception machine, especially in this weather. He will have to beat the Hawks on intermediate passes and this is where Welker excels.
Julius Thomas 66/1. Ditto above. If Denver are to win the TEs must step up, it wouldnât surprise me to see Jacob Tamme have the game of his life either at 200/1.
Bobby Wagner 150/1. He will be the key man on the Seahawks D, other big name players will get the pre-match headlines but this war will be fought out on Wagnerâs field. An interception here or a fumble there will make odds of 150/1 look ridiculous.
Itâs hard to pick a team to support here.
Two cunts, @croppy_boy[/USER] & @[USER=1074]Sandymount Red, who is the lesser of 2 evils?
[quote=âFran, post: 896067, member: 110â]Itâs hard to pick a team to support here.
Two cunts, @croppy_boy[/USER] & @[USER=1074]Sandymount Red, who is the lesser of 2 evils?[/quote]
@Sandymount Red is probably the more tolerable as a fully signed up member of the horsey brigade.
A yes, that definitely swings it in the Seahawks favour
oxymoron.