NFC West 2015

And.....Here we go again folks!  The NFC West will once again be the premier conference to watch in the NFL, just as it was last year.  The aging Manning's and Brady era will continue to age and then fade away if those organizations don't start propagating new talent to take their place and lead these teams.  It's called Brand Management Destruction to build a brand around one player and not do the Due Diligence to find another source of branding to act as a supplement for their main effort, growing and collecting an audience so that when the day comes for Tom Brady to retire, the organization does not tank with his departure.

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Seattle Sea Chickens

The Seattle Sea Chickens had a great year last year, winning the Super Bowl, and driving home the idea that they had a program that was on the rise, except, so did the Houston Texans when they made their run for title in their rookie season, and then went flat for the next three years after.  In fact, it seems that most of the teams that win the Super Bowl either lose players, or the players themselves lose their hunger for the title the following year.  Hopefully for Seattle, their team does not go the same route as the Texans or the USC Trojans, as their coach Pete Carroll, who has shot the team into meteorite noteriety has been in this position before, and each of the teams he has coached to this level has fallen into the sphere of 5 year irrelevancy.


 
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San Francisco 49ers

Having had a better year last year than most teams, and beating the Seattle Seahawks at the end of the season, the 49ers, are on the rise.  Colin Kaepernick is back, Michael Crabtree is back, Aldon Smith and his brother from another mother Justin Smith are back, as well as Anquan Boldin, the trash talking receiver that mentally destroys his competition with thrashing output is back.    I have the 49ers winning the NFC West this year, but, having to fight Arizona and Seattle in nail biting, jaw clenching games of sheer brute force trauma.


Arizona Cardinals

Drew Stanton is preparing to lead a team that is an under ranked 11 seed in the race for the 2015 Super Bowl win.  The Arizona Cardinals have been making steady gains the past few years and are now in the position of being a variable opponent, with nobody having any idea if they are going to beat them or not.  With growth as a team comes a need for consistency, which is where you end up immediately after a decade of reorganization has taken place.  Now that the Arizona Cardinals are out of the NFL sandbox, there will be a much bigger focus on building a franchise of consistent high placement.  I look to the Arizona Cardinals to be the first team to draw first blood with the Seattle Seahawks, followed by the 49ers, and then Baltimore.

NFL Post Season Matchups: Redskins vs. Seahawks

Seattle vs. Washington

Seattle and Washington are both being led by Rookie QB's, but the supporting cast is far different.  Washington, I feel has the advantage by having all the right veterans in all the right places for success.  Seattle, led by Wilson has motivation and Pete Carroll, who, after leaving USC, has everything to gain, and nothing left to lose, by winning.  I expect to see Washington play a tactically correct game, and Seattle leave it all on the field, making a great game come forth, but with Washington the victor.

The second half is on the horizon with Washington leading by one point.  Key areas that will be addressed have to include that RGIII is still injured, and now Hauschka fro Seattle is too.  Impact, RGIII is injured and may have to alternate snaps with Cousins, who has proved that he is effective as a backup.  Hauschka on the other side, and with Seattle, isn't so lucky, with his backup having not been involved in the season, other than as holdier, due to the fact that kickers don't normally get injured, or can go years without one.

Superbowl Travel

Due to a lack of mobility by RGIII, the receivers have to break free, and I would suggest a short yardage, 12 yards per play offense for the Redskins.

On the Seattle side of things, Russell Wilson's mobility needs to be exercised more in order to keep the Washington secondary in check, forcing them to stay close to the line.