LOB

LOB saves the day again ! For those who don't know what LOB stands for it means Legion of Boom. Legion of Boom is a term for the Seattle defense. While Russel Wilson was struggling and everything  seemed to be going Green Bay way but the defense stopped the Packers two drives in the red zone in the first quarter and forced them to kick a field goal. If it wasn't for LOB stopping Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay offense the score could of been much worse then it was in the first quarter. The only downfall for LOB in the first quarter was the touchdown Aaron Rodgers threw to Randall Cobb. So although it looked bad for the Seahawks to be down 16-0 at halftime.

But the second half was the Seahawks half. The Seahawks outscored the Packers 22 to 6 in the second half not even including overtime. The turnaround for the Seahawks was the fake field goal that turned into a 19 yard touchdown from the punter Jon Ryan to rookie lineman Gary Gilliam that probably fooled just about everyone in the world and it looked like it didn't phase Pete Carroll at all. From there that is when the momentum shifted to Seattle. In the fourth quarter Seattle forced the Packers to kick yet another field goal to make the score 19-7 with the Packers leading. Usually when a team has a lead like that late  in the 4th quarter you would think that team will have that game in the bag well that clearly wasn't the case in today's game.

The next drive for Seattle only took 7 plays for 69 that lead to a 1 yard touchdown for Russell Wilson that took only 1 minute and 43 seconds.  If that wasn't enough Seattle went for an onside kick and got the bounce they needed and recovered the onside kick. Once Seattle got the ball back from the onside kick they marched down field which lead to a Marshawn Lynch 24 yard touchdown. Then if that wasn't enough they went for two where Russell Wilson just chucked the ball up and prayed one of his receivers caught it and his prayers were answered it fell right into Luke Wilson hands. At this point Seattle had their first lead of the game up 22 to 19 with just a minute and some change left. But, that was just enough time for Aaron Rodgers he got the offense down in field goal real quickly which lead to Mason Crosby making his fifth field goal to force overtime. But the Seahawks won the coin toss and elected to receive which lead to a 35 yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson to Jermaine Kearse to end the game with Seattle Seahawks beating the Green Bay Packers 28 to 22 which makes them the only team other then the 2003 & 2004 New England Patriots to go to back to back Super Bowls.

LOB dominated Aaron Rodgers and the Packers explosive offense picking off Aaron Rodgers twice. Even with Russel Wilson horrible performance in the game of 4 interceptions LOB kept Seattle in the game which later lead to Seattle winning. All that talk all year that Seattle needs a #1 wide receiver I believe their wide receiver core held up well. Doug Baldwin had 6 catches for 106 yards. Although Jermaine Kearse only had 1 catch even though he was thrown to 5 times that one catch was the biggest catch of the game which lead to a touchdown in overtime that sends Seattle back to the Super Bowl. Also you never really need a powerful receiver when you have a beast mode running back like Marshawn Lynch who carried the ball 25 times for 157 yards and 1 touchdown. But will LOB be enough to beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl we will find out February 1st.