Geography aside, it's difficult to abstain the parallels amid the Seattle Seahawks and Macklemore. Both accustomed on the civic date in 2013, acutely out of nowhere, sported ambiguous hairstyles and some of their greatest triumphs – like acceptable conference championships or Grammys – had association up in arms.
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Now, both accept to amount out what to do for an encore. Because if there is one affair success does not guarantee, it's added success. "What accept you done for me lately?" has bound angry into "What will you do for me tomorrow?" so while acceptable a championship or hitting the amount one atom on the archive is nice, the joy can abandoned endure so long.
So whether it's recording the aftereffect to The Heist, or addition out how to get accomplished the 49ers already again, both accept their plan cut out for them. Luckily, Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson and the "Legion of Boom" aegis accept been appetite arise a echo aback aboriginal in the year, aggravating to abstain one-hit admiration status, with the ultimate ambition of acceptable a absolutism remembered for decades to come.
Good luck. For some reason, accepting aback to the Super Bowl has been a cipher that's abuse abreast absurd to able for contempo ascendant NFL champions: Dating aback to the 2006 Steelers, none of the endure eight Super Bowl champions accept won a playoff bold the afterward year. Half of them bootless to even accomplish a echo actualization in the postseason. No aggregation has appeared in back-to-back Super Bowls aback the 2003-2004 Patriots, who aswell arise to be the endure echo champions.
Why can't teams acquisition their way aback to the top, and why will Seattle breach that trend? Well, for starters, the endure decade has been a fluke.
Over the aboriginal 14 Super Bowls, there were four echo winners: The 1967-8 Packers, 1973-4 Dolphins, 1975-6 Steelers and 1979-80 Steelers. In the eighties, the 49ers won three titles, and the Redskins and Raiders anniversary won two. The Niners won two more in the nineties, while the Cowboys won three and the Broncos won two. And even if the Bills accept won as abounding Super Bowls as Adam Sandler has won Oscars, they did arise in four-straight.
In added words, repeating has continued been an NFL staple, and there's a accepted altercation to be fabricated that the Seahawks can animate the tradition. It's accessible that they've been the best aggregation in the NFL in anniversary of the endure two years, admitting rarely does the best aggregation win it all.
Perhaps a bigger augur of success would be DVOA, an avant-garde defensive-efficiency carbon created at Football Outsiders.
In 2005, the Colts were the top aggregation in DVOA, and the afterward season, they'd win Super Bowl XLI. The 2007 Patriots aggregation that went best in the approved division (and fell one David Tyree accession abbreviate of a championship) was acme in DVOA that year. The Packers were additional in DVOA in 2009, fourth in 2010 and aboriginal in 2011, and won Super Bowl XLV. And assuredly there's Seattle, the aggregation that has accomplished aboriginal in DVOA in anniversary of the endure two seasons.
Seattle's aegis accustomed the atomic credibility and yards in 2013, while banishment the a lot of turnovers. They affected at atomic two turnovers in 14 of 19 games, captivated opponents to single-digit point totals seven times, and angry the brawl over themselves just 5 times over their final 10 games, including playoffs. In the postseason they faced the Saints, 49ers and Broncos and captivated them to 40 credibility total, which is three beneath than what Seattle denticulate in the Super Bowl alone.
In a 34-7 Week 13 win over the Saints, they captivated Drew Brees to 3.87 yards per attempt, the third-lowest absolute of his career. It was the aboriginal time New Orleans was captivated to seven credibility or beneath aback 2008. Colin Kaepernick faced the Seahawks three times endure year and accomplished with two touchdowns and six interceptions. And in the Super Bowl, they captivated Peyton Manning to 5.71 yards per attempt, one touchdown and two interceptions. Up to that point, Manning had been averaging 3.27 touchdowns per game.
On Thursday, Seattle faces Aaron Rodgers and the Packers for the aboriginal time aback the "Fail Mary" bold of 2012. That arguable alarm overshadowed the actuality that Rodgers, conceivably the best quarterback in the NFL over the endure 5 years, was captivated after a touchdown pass, had just 5.72 yards per attack and was sacked eight times in the Packers 14-12 loss. A Rodgers-led breach has abandoned been captivated to 12 credibility or beneath alert in the endure three years.
And appealing abundant all of the apparatus from the aegis that fabricated it arise are still in Seattle, including the three All-Pro accessory associates who are now bound into abiding extensions. While some accomplished champions suffered cogent losses due to retirement, chargeless agency, shrinking cap amplitude or injury, Seattle faces about none of those issues in 2014.
Their better accident is arch receiver and punt returner Golden Tate, who active with Detroit, but his backup is Percy Harvin, who is basically what you would get if Tate got covered in the Ooze from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II. After demography a lot of of 2013 off to balance from hip surgery, Harvin looks healthy, which agency that the best aggregation from a year ago could in actuality be adding one of the best players in the aboriginal bisected of 2012, if Harvin had 1,374 yards from flat in nine games.
In fact, the Seahawks are as advantageous as they've anytime been beneath Carroll.
Left accouterment Russell Okung absent eight amateur endure year, but has remained off the abrasion address so far. It's not something any NFL aggregation can realistically calculation on – to break absolutely advantageous for an absolute division – but Seattle was decidedly banged up endure year and they still begin their way to the Super Bowl for a 43-8 win over "the greatest breach of all-time."
Can they do it again?
There is no catechism that the Seahawks are traveling to be good, and assume like a lock for the playoffs, area annihilation is possible. But in adjustment to win a championship in any accustomed season, getting "good" or even "great" is abandoned one allotment of a aggregate of necessities. Just like an artisan who hustles for years adorning their skills, affairs CDs out of a block and announcement bootleg YouTube clips for 301 views, you aswell accept to get lucky.
The aftereffect is in actuality no altered than the original. All you've done is displace the bold so you can play it all over.
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