Luck is a phenom. He will be the highest paid player in the league soon enough. Book it. He has a comparable team to the Dolphins in some sense and he elevates the players around him. But what these 2 championship games showed is that having a talent loaded team with coaching players can rally around is essential to being a top team. Seattle's current core of players is physical, they buy into the system, they believe in each other, they believe in the coaching, they trust that the organization is doing everything to make sure they are winners. Luck has a team that is full of holes. The coaching is above average. He has every intangible you can want, but great teams know how to shut him down because they know he only has so much to work with.
The Patriots and the Seahawks on the other hand are just beasts. They go into every play believing they are going to get what they want. You see a coach that doesn't even second guess going for it on 4th down every single time. You see teams that are not content with FG's after good drives. They will fail miserably and not take points than just settle for some points. It's incredible to watch. Sadly, I have very low expectations with the current core of the Dolphins. I believe Tannehill has what it takes and he needs help from somewhere. When Wilson can play the absolute worst game of his career and the whole team puts their entire faith in him that they will find a way to win, it's just beautiful.
We would hear stories from ****ing Miko that the team was split on the QB. The only guy that would show up, take a beating on every down, and keep getting back up. The most pathetic mindset I've ever seen on a team. The Pats put pieces around Brady that compliment what they need and they have THE best redzone threat maybe ever in Gronk. What we witnessed is two organizations going all out to give the fans and the players on the team a reason to fight for their spot amongst the NFL's elite. The Dolphins organization brings in favoritist employees because of close personal connections like Tannenbaum so that we can have a team that rivals the dysfunction of the Jets. ****ing sickening. The Dolphins scrap great players because of personality qualms (Davis, Dansby, Marshall, Bush, Odrick soon enough) and don't replace them adequately. The Pats get rid of players for business decisions and they find players with a slew of personality issues and they all buy into a system. If anyone wants to talk trash about how the Pats are cheap, they can go ahead and argue all they want. When a team finds every single angle and fights for every inch both within the letter of the NFL law and on the field, that's when you have a team that that goes for broke to make sure they are winners.
In the past couple of years the Pats and Seahawks have shown what it is to transcend the traditional conventions of the NFL. Seattle has a historically good defense when historically good offenses are commonplace, and the Pats will win how ever they choose to win.
It's so tough to be a Dolfan because the only thing we know how to transcend is the ability to be amazingly mediocre year in and year out.
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