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Seattle Seahawks (-4.5) vs. New England Patriots | 45.5 O/U

Seahawks: 25.0 Implied Points | Patriots: 20.5 Implied Points

Notable Skill Position Injuries: SEA RB Zach Charbonnet – OUT/IR

Showdown Roster Construction (in order of preference): 4-2 Seahawks, 4-2 Patriots, 3-3 Balanced

Super Bowl LX Preview

Levi’s Stadium | Santa Clara, CA

Sunday, February 8^th | 6:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM PT

Watch/Stream: NBC/Peacock

Weather: 60 degrees, light ~5 mph winds, no rain expected.

Once again, we find ourselves at the final stop of the NFL season. Another long year is in the books, another Super Bowl is upon us, and before we all officially pivot toward the offseason grind, we get one last, massive stage to enjoy. As always, thank you for reading along throughout the season – hopefully it’s been an entertaining and profitable ride on the DFS and betting fronts.

Super Bowl LX brings us a familiar matchup wrapped in very unfamiliar circumstances. The Seahawks and Patriots will meet in the Super Bowl for the second time, a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX that still lives vividly in NFL lore. While the uniforms are the same, almost everything else has changed.

Seattle enters this game as one of the most surprising juggernauts of the 2025 season. What was expected to be a retooling year following the departure of Geno Smith instead turned into a dominant run through the NFC. Under Mike Macdonald, the Seahawks paired one of the league’s most explosive offenses with a defense that was elite at preventing exactly that. Their explosive-play differential during the regular season ranked not only first in the NFL, but among the best marks the league has seen in the past 25 years.

Sam Darnold’s resurgence has been one of the defining storylines of the season. After years of uneven play and short leashes, he has steadied himself in Seattle and delivered the most efficient football of his career when it mattered most. His postseason performance has been a reminder that variance cuts both ways – and when Darnold plays within structure and avoids turnovers, this offense becomes extremely difficult to slow down. Jaxon Smith-Njigba has been the centerpiece, finishing the regular season as the league’s leading receiver and giving Seattle a true matchup problem at all three levels of the field. JSN’s stellar season earned him NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors and he will be the most electric player to watch on Sunday.

Defensively, the Seahawks are built to win this type of game. Macdonald’s unit excelled at limiting explosive passes all season, forcing opponents to sustain long drives and eventually make mistakes. That approach will be tested against a Patriots offense that thrives on efficiency rather than volume.

New England’s return to the Super Bowl has been every bit as unexpected, if not more so. After finishing last in their division just one season ago, the Patriots have flipped the script under first-year head coach Mike Vrabel. The roster doesn’t overwhelm you with star power, but it has been disciplined, physical, and opportunistic throughout the postseason.

Drake Maye has been the revelation of the year. At just 23 years old playing in his second NFL season, he narrowly lost out to Rams QB Matthew Stafford for NFL MVP honors. He’s already shown poise well beyond his experience, guiding one of the league’s most efficient offenses through the regular season and into the playoffs. The Patriots have leaned on balance, pairing Maye’s playmaking ability with a run game that keeps defenses honest and allows them to control tempo. That approach has helped New England “win ugly” at times, particularly in weather-impacted postseason games where defense and field position mattered most.

On the other side of the ball, the Patriots’ defense has quietly been one of the league’s most consistent units. They finished the regular season among the top teams in both scoring offense and scoring defense – a rare combination – and they’ve ramped up the aggression in the playoffs. Increased blitz rates and timely pressure have forced turnovers and stalled drives, allowing New England to survive even when the offense hasn’t been at its best.

Ultimately, this game feels like a clash between two teams that win in vastly different ways. New England will want to shorten the game, force Seattle to earn every yard, and hope to swing the outcome with one or two timely defensive plays. Seattle, meanwhile, has the ability to flip the field in an instant and punish even minor breakdowns with explosive gains.

If this game stays clean and relatively turnover-free, the advantage tilts toward the Seahawks. Their ability to generate chunk plays – and their defense’s ability to prevent them – gives them more margin for error. That doesn’t mean the Patriots can’t win; it just means they’ll likely need to manufacture a few high-leverage moments to do so.

No matter the outcome, this sets up as a compelling, tightly contested Super Bowl with plenty of narrative weight on both sides. It’s a rematch years in the making, featuring two franchises that took very different paths back to the sport’s biggest stage – and both have earned their place here.

Score Prediction: Seahawks – 27, Patriots – 20

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Once again, if you have any questions, DM me on Twitter or hit me up in LineStar chat @Ryan_Humphries. Good luck this Sunday!