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"He's all wrong for us, baby. I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you. Now we don't need no man like that in our lives." --- Duke (Apollo's trainer to Apollo regarding a rematch with Rocky.
The Seahawks didn't start well and were punched hard by Falcons, who saw a Clemens-less D-Line, prepped well and executed extremely well.
Since '98, as far back as I have looked so far, only 5 west coast teams have had to play the 10am game. All five have been losses and the 'Hawks have been in 4 of them. It's been a demonstrated advantage for east coast teams in the regular season - a disproportionate number of east coast teams win the early games versus west coast teams, when compared to travel in the other direction. In my mind, that should not exist in the playoffs.
That said, you need to win to eliminate that disadvantage, so it's not an excuse. None of the players and coaches would ever say it was. But the NFL really ought to consider not allowing a demonstrated disadvantage to affect only the Seahawks, Chargers, Raiders and 49ers.
In the context of the game though, the Seahawks demonstrated again that when you hit them, they are "like a piece of iron". They keep coming after you. If they bottle that up and add a weapon or two, it'll be twice the team that was the NFL's best in 2005.
It'll be great ride...