St. Louis Rams @ Seattle Seahawks Sunday Night Football Pick

St. Louis Rams @ Seattle Seahawks Sunday Night Football Pick: The NFC West!!! Hooray! Listen, the AFC South hasn’t been all that much better. I know that any team form the AFC South would be a huge favorite in the NFC West, but the winning team from the South could be 9-7, and there’s really been nothing but disappointment from the division all year long – sounds like the NFC West to me! But nobody would talk junk about Peyton Manning’s division, oh no, that’s blasphemy. And since this is the only “winner in, loser out” game on the schedule this week, lets talk about this one instead of how bad the AFC South has been.

First off, the Rams are going to beat the Hawks in Seattle to go to the playoffs. Secondly, it will probably be more of the Hawks beating themselves than the Rams winning it outright. See, Matt Hasselbeck had some good games earlier in the season, and all of a sudden this is a pass-happy-Seahawks team that “doesn’t beat themselves” – whelp, now that’s all they’re doing because they don’t run the ball for junk, and they pass way too much for an old guy with a tired arm, and there’s no way that’s a recipe for success. But the Rams are just better. They are better on both sides of the ball, and if it weren’t for Olindo Mare and Leon Washington having awesome seasons, they’d be better on special teams as well.

The Hawks definitely have some experienced leadership on their side, but you know they’ve been dealing with a lot of this “a losing team could make the playoffs” crap, and that should be playing tricks on them mentally. It’s tough to win if you think you’re losers, and I don’t know how the Hawks can come in thinking anything different this Sunday Night.

The Rams have Sam Bradford, and they are happy about it. Against one of the league’s worst secondaries (a CB tandem of Trufant and Jennings leaves quarterbacks wondering which side they should throw to, because neither one is good enough to stay away from) Sam should have a consistent day throwing the football. Many Hawk fans are trying to talk up his youth, and how that gives the Hawks a huge advantage on Sunday – but let’s be honest, they’d all rather have Sam than Matt in this game.

The Rams are the better team, and they should get that NFC West playoff spot.

St. Louis Rams (-1) @ Seattle Seahawks