Give Russell His Due

After the highly touted and gifted Robert Griffin the third jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the 1st quarter of last week's Wild Card game at home, the nation's capital was booking it's trip to New Orleans. RG3 landed awkwardly late in the 1st quarter and preceded to gut it out and reducing his mobility to on par with Drew Bledsoe. The Redskins would lose the game 24-14 and the buzz around the game was whether Redskins coach Mike Shanahan should have pulled RG3 for the very capable Kirk Cousins, who has recently lead the Redskins to a victory a few weeks prior. Not how Russell Wilson calmly chipped the lead away and managed the Seahawks on the road to its first road playoff win in 29 years.
Growing up in the Northeast, I grew accustomed to the East Coast Bias from the media and understand why the rest of the country hates the Red Sox/Yankees hype. So with much of the talk all year around RG3 and Andrew Luck in Indianapolis, Seattle has relatively quietly pieced together a top 10 defense (6th against the pass and 10th against the run) and a viable offense. Maybe Seattlonians rather discuss their team's success in a quiet coffee shop rather than over every AM sports radio show that covers everything from shirtless Tim Tebow to Tom Brady's sleeping patterns with a new born.  3rd Round Draft pick Russell Wilson supplanted the highest paid backup QB, Matt Flynn for the  starting QB job in the summer. The Seahawks relied on beast running back Marshawn Lynch from the early weeks in the season. After Wilson demonstrated his ability to succeed on the play action and pass to his 2nd and 3rd option, few have been better than Wilson. Since the beginning of November, he has lead his team to 8 wins in 9 outings in throwing for 17 TDS and 2 INTs and smartly accumulating 428 rushing yards & 4 TDs. Seattle comes back to the East Coast this weekend to face the San Jose Sharks of the NFL, Atlanta Falcons. A team that is allergic to winning in the postseason.
This team reminds me alot of the Patriots in the early oughts. Great defense with nobodies and QB that quietly manages his team to wins. To be frank, I do not know how Bill Simmons does not stop gloating about his Seahawks to the super bowl prediction in the preseason. I do not think the Seahawks mind all the focus on the 49ers/Packers game in the other divisional round. They will continue to quietly sip their coffee all the way to New Orleans. Hell.... I traded my cup of Dunkin in for Starbucks a long time ago.