I have always been loath to give game predictions not because there isn’t some good analysis involved but because there is a reason that the players actually walk out on the field and play. That being said, the Super Bowl is all about predictions and so every season I take the time to make mine.
The predictions that I have heard thus far (and that is not very many) seem to draw a dichotomy between “head” and “heart”. The reasoning is this; ‘The Colts are obviously the best team in football so my head tells me that they are going to win this game but there is some part of me (heart) that really wants the Saints to win…for the town’. This line of thinking is absolute horse puckey and though I don’t want to set up a straw man here I have heard these sentiments too much to let them go on any longer so I will break it down here and then give you my prediction:
The Packers 2009 season, though it started rough, ended up being a success though many fans thought the team should have gone farther. Here is a “laundry list” of what the team accomplished and where they need improvement:
OFFENSE
- Aaron Rodgers - we spent a whole QuickSlant on him already
- Sixth best overall offense
- Seventh best passing offense
- 14th best rushing offense
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Before the kickoff of the 2009 season one of the questions bandied about was whether Aaron Rodgers could go from being a very good to being an elite quarterback in the league. Asked by ESPN and NFL Network analysts as well as Packer fans and reporters this question seemed to be everywhere. Could A-Rod be more than just really good? Could he be one of the greats? This question, of course was totally unfounded if one looks at the fact that Aaron Rodgers was the sixth best passer in the league in his first year as a starter in 2008. But people wanted to know if A-Rod could crack the top five and the question came about more because of the Packers final record in the 2008 season than because of Rodgers's final passing stats. People wanted to know if Aaron Rodgers could lead the Packers into the playoffs and ultimately to the promised land.
Let's take a quick glance at A-Rod's last passing stats from 2008:
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