Broncos-Seahawks Super Dish matches top 'O,' top 'D'
Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos and Richard Sherman's Seattle Seahawks were the NFL's best all season, so it's fitting that they'll fulfill in the Super Dish.
No one racked up as lots of points or gained as numerous yards as the Broncos.
Nobody allowed as couple of points or quit as few yards as the Seahawks.
And no one succeeded as several games as those clubs, either.
Just what a means to complete the season. When the AFC champ Broncos (15-3) play the NFC champion Seahawks (15-3) on Feb. 2 at exactly what could be a freezing MetLife Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., it will be the initial Super Dish considering that 1991 pitting the organization's highest-scoring team in the regular season against the group that was scored on the least, baseding on STATISTICS.
It's additionally just the second time in the last 20 Super Bowls that the No. 1 seed in each conference got to the NFL championship game.
" It will certainly be a wonderful matchup," Seahawks trainer Pete Carroll claimed." I think it's an extraordinary opportunity to counteract an individual that established all the documents in the record of the game.".
That, obviously, would certainly be Manning, the 37-year-old quarterback who is the only four-time NFL MVP - and no one would certainly be surprised if No. 5 arrives the night prior to the Super Dish. He set up marks by throwing for 55 goals and 5,477 backyards, aiding Denver lead the organization with 37.9 factors and 457.3 lawns each game. Manning is an unavoidable pitchman, as well, seen Sunday after Sunday during TELEVISION commercials. Hey, there he was offering autos during breaks in the broadcast of the NFC title game. Anticipate more face time now.
Manning's oft-told story, certain to be repeated a million times in the coming days, features his return from a series of surgical procedures to his neck, tries to cure problems that led him to remain the entire 2011 period. That likewise led the Indianapolis Colts to send him loading regardless of two Super Dish appearances with that club, including a title in 2007.
" It's certainly well-documented exactly what my journey the past 2 1/2 years has been," said Manning, who might become the initial starting QB to lead 2 franchises to titles," however this group's conquered a great deal of obstacles this year.".
None more severe, possibly, compared to coach John Fox's lack for about a month due to a heart procedure. Various other issues consisted of the fax synthetic pas that dispatched the retirement of pass rusher Elvis Dumervil, superstar linebacker Von Miller's drug-testing suspension and season-ending knee injury, and the losses of a handful of various other beginners on defense.
" Being in my 16th period, visiting my third Super Dish - I know how hard it is to buy there," Manning claimed.
He threw for 400 lawns and 2 goals in a 26-16 triumph over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the AFC national championship Sunday. Manning's offense scored on six successive properties, made up more than 500 yards, had no turnovers and zero sacks.
Ol' No. 18's opposite number in 2 weeks, Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson, offers a real contrast as he finds his - and the Seahawks' - very first Super Bowl trophy.
Wilson is 6 inches shorter, 12 years younger, an experienced scrambler in only his second pro period after sliding to the 3rd round of the draft; he's an individual that needed to move universities to buy playing time and thought of pursuing a baseball occupation as an alternative.
" Whenever you have the ability to the Super Bowl," Wilson claimed after Seattle beat the San Francisco 49ers 23-17 on Sunday," it's an unique time.".
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Other members of the Seahawks getting the opportunity to present themselves to a broad audience feature rugged running back Marshawn Lynch - followers tossed packs of his preferred sweet, Skittles, onto the field after a 40-yard TD run in the 3rd quarter - and Carroll, a rah-rah sort that was a title-winning college train at Southern The golden state of california.
And maybe, simply maybe, a few of Manning's less-heralded defensive colleagues - the ones that clamped down on New England's running game Sunday and restricted Brady much of the mid-day - will certainly get their opportunity to sparkle, also.
Seattle's defense, led by Sherman, allowed around 14.4 factors and 273.6 lawns, and topped the NFL in takeaways.
On Sunday, the Seahawks obliged three turn overs in the 4th quarter alone, featuring a victory-sealing interception by Malcolm Smith after Sherman extended his left hand to tip Colin Kaepernick's die from receiver Michael Crabtree in the long run zone.
" I'm the best edge in the game," claimed Sherman, an All-Pro." When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're going to get.".
Seattle's only other travel to the big game finished with a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006. Denver will certainly be playing in its seventh Super Bowl and eyeing a 3rd title, to go with those from 1998 and 1999, when present executive John Elway was the QB.
In addition to Elway, Manning could match his more youthful bro Eli with a second Super Bowl crown. Eli, a spectator on Sunday in Denver, triumphed two prizes with the New York Giants, whose stadium hosts this year's Super Dish, the initial to be played outdoors at a cold-weather site.
