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Here is why we should absolutely root for the Seahawks tonight

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Let's go through this.

 

SEAHAWKS WIN PROS:

- Moves us one step closer to winning the division which would give us a bye and a home game.

- It gives everyone a warm feeling in the loins when the Saints lose.

 

SEAHAWKS WIN CONS:

- Makes the chances of us winning homefield advantage throughout the playoffs even more remote.

- Might make the Saints more likely to win against us the following week (pissed off with something to prove, hard to imagine the Saints losing twice in a row)

 

Here is why those "cons" are bogus and if you think you're being smart by rooting for the Saints tonight, you're wrong.

 

1.) Homefield advantage is already gone. Counting tonight, the Seahawks have 5 games left:

 

NEW ORLEANS

@ San Francisco

@ NY Giants

ARIZONA

ST. LOUIS

 

The Seahawks have a 2 game lead on us right now plus the tiebreaker. That means we would have to win out and the Seahawks would have to go 0-5, 1-4, or 2-3 in these last 5 for us to gain homefield. The odds of that happening are extremely tiny, not much better than us hoping they go 0-4 or 1-3 after this week. No one knew it at the time, but DeAngelo fumbling in Week 1 cost us a chance at homefield advantage. Instead of being down by basically 3, we'd be a half game up (We would be 10-2 and the Seahawks 9-2) and we would own the tiebreaker.

 

2.) If you believe the Panthers are truly a Super Bowl team and are worthy of this 8 game winning streak, then you should have no fear about another team's mentality when they play us. Beating the Saints on the road next week is already going to be a difficult task going off stats: Drew Brees has never lost in the Superdome on Sunday Night Football. He's undefeated. We're already facing something that's supposed to be impossible. If the Saints lose tonight, Riverboat and the coaching staff can see what Seattle did successfully and see what kinds of wrinkles they can put into their own gameplan on Sunday night. Lesser teams are the ones that worry about another team's "mentality". If we're good enough to beat the Saints, then we're good enough to beat the Saints.

 

And I think we will.

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Pro: Seattle and Carolina run a similar offense. Pound the rock and playaction your face. The Saints get to enjoy Beastmode tonight for 4 hours, then hope on a plane and fly half way across the country, take a day off and then start prepping for the Panthers run game this coming Sunday.

 

 

I hope Seattle bloodies their nose something fierce.   

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I still dont understand why we shOuld be rooting for NO......

Sent from my SGH-T399 using CarolinaHuddle mobile app

 

 

only one reason and it is definitely a long shot.

 

Our only hope for Home Field Advantage throughout the playoffs are for Seattle to stumble.  Taking the lead over the taints in our division is in the players hands on the field.  For us to get HFA a lot of things have to happen.

 

FWIW, I am rooting for Seattle.

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Yeah anyway you slice it in order for us to win the Division we need to sweep the saints regardless of the outcome of this game. Unless of course u think the Saints may lose to a terrible Rams team or Bucs team.

I watched STL and SF yesterday over Den/KC since it affected us. And I wouldn't feel confident relying on the Rams if we needed them to beat Jax let alone NO.

As for as tonight goes I hope both teams just beat the living poo out of each other.

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I posted two days ago that when adding up all the pros/cons, that a Seahawks loss would be better. I changed my mind. While true that a Saints loss tonight only means something to us if they also lose to the Rams, that is quite possible. I'm pulling for the Seahawks tonight.

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