Filed under: Saints, Seahawks, AFC West, NFC South, NFL Playoffs
Almost everything everyone thought about this game was wrong.The defending Super Bowl champions grabbed two early 10-point leads, then watched Matt Hasselbeck throw four touchdown passes as the Seattle Seahawks, 7-9 and winners of just three of their last 10 games coming into the playoffs, kept putting the pressure on the 11-win New Orleans Saints.
The game was in doubt until Marshawn Lynch came up with his biggest play as a Seahawk, breaking for a 67-yard touchdown run with 3:22 to play to push Seattle into a nearly unassailable 41-30 lead. Lynch's run will be shown on endless highlight films as he broke free of Saints' defenders time and again.
The Saints got a late touchdown, but it wasn't nearly enough as the Seahawks came away with a 41-36 win.
The Saints, who still have never won a road playoff game, nonetheless came in as a 10½ -point favorite, the biggest road favorite in the history of the playoffs. And the Seahawks, a 34-19 loser in New Orleans in November, seemed singularly unimpressed.
Some early thoughts about this one:
o. No defending Super Bowl championship team had ever lost a playoff game the next year after being ahead by 10 points. The Saints were up 10-0 and 17-7 before falling behind Seattle by two touchdowns in the third quarter.
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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/08/saints-vs-seahawks-marshawn-lynch-wraps-up-seattle-shocker/
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