Nearly a week after the Seahawks and Patriots clinched spots in Super Bowl LX, the matchup still doesn’t make much sense.
The Seahawks entered the year as a +6000 Super Bowl longshot, holding worse odds than every other team in the NFC West. They had not won a playoff game in six years and added a quarterback (Sam Darnold) who would be joining his fifth team in six season, having most recently faceplanted in Minnesota in the two biggest games of his career.
Only eight teams in the NFL had worse preseason title odds than the Patriots (+8000), who were coming off back-to-back four-win seasons — finishing behind the Jets each year — and returned a 23-year-old quarterback with 12 career starts.
Now the Patriots and Seahawks have combined to create the most unexpected Super Bowl matchup of all time, certain to end with either Drake Maye becoming the youngest starting quarterback to win the title or Darnold, the former Jets bust, on top of the world.
