Bleacher Report: Why the Indianapolis Colts Are Guaranteed To Win
February 8th, 2010
by Kevin Roberts at Bleacher Report
Forget about trends and rankings. They don’t do a whole lot of good in helping us predict Super Bowl winners.
Just look back to Super Bowl XXIV, when Joe Montana and Jerry Rice dominated the league’s top scoring defense, the Denver Broncos, in the most lop-sided Super Bowl in NFL History, winning 55-10.
We’ve even seen the regular season trends backfire on our predictions and game analysis in these very playoffs, as Minnesota’s league-leading pass rush failed to rattle Drew Brees, which gave the Saints an advantage that many experts didn’t necessarily expect them to have.
While rankings can help us assess how a team may match up or perform in different areas on the field, it’s ultimately anyone’s guess as to which team will show up in the Super Bowl: the dominant offense/defense that ruled the regular season, or the team that somehow found it’s way through the playoffs, and is on its last leg?
While both Indianapolis and New Orleans have the tools (and elite quarterbacks) to give us one of the best Super Bowls ever seen, there is also the possibility that we see exactly what we saw in that 49ers/Broncos match back in 1990.
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