Who you got winning the 2015 Super Bowl: Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, or Russell Wilson and the NFL's defending champion Seattle Seahawks? As Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's Patriots recover from DeflateGate and enter their sixth Super Bowl in the last 14 years -- having already won three -- while the Seahawks try to be the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls since the 2003-2004 Patriots, analysts and NFL experts weigh in with their Super Bowl 49 predictions. Will Tom Brady win his fourth NFL Super Bowl and third Super Bowl MVP? Or will Russell Wilson go back-to-back? Who's mad, bro?
ESPN's analysts as a group are 13-8 in favor of a Patriots win, with Sports Nation also predicting Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's fourth Super Bowl triumph.
In favor of the Patriots are: Tedy Bruschi, Frank Caliendo, Ryan Clark, Colin Cowherd, Jay Crawford, Mike Ditka, Merril Hoge, Chris Mortensen, Ryen Russillo, Adam Schefter, Mark Schlereth, Mike Tirico and Trey Wingo.
Backing a Seahawks win are John Anderson, Chris Carter, Lindsay Czarniak, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, Ray Lewis, Hannah Storm and bald eagle Scott Van Pelt.
Says Mortensen, "The Patriots will have more answers for the Seahawks' offense, while LeGarrette Blount will present problems for Seattle. Still a pick 'em game."
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The experts for the league's official site, NFL.com, have offered their predictions the game, and of the 13 analysts seven -- Aditi Kinkhabwala, Charley Casserly, Gil Brandt, Kevin Patra, Charles Davis, Brian Billick and Conor Orr -- are in favor of the Seahawks, and six -- Adam Schein, Marc Sessler, Chris Wesseling, Dave Dameshek, Gregg Rosenthal and Elliot Harrison -- are picking the Patriots.
As NFL.com's Dave Dameshek says, "Sorry to lean on the deflated-ball scandal, but as noted Patriots wonk Gregg Rosenthal pointed out last week, Belichick's gang responded to Spygate by obliterating all comers for the next three months. I suspect this team will show up with not just a chip on its shoulder, but a whole bag of chips."
Yahoo! Sports report that the Predictalator has simulate the Super Bowl over 50,000 times and has the Seahawks winning 57.5% of the time, with the most likely winning score being 24-20.
As SB Nation's Katie Sharp reports, "There appears to be little consensus on who will win this game among our resident NFL experts. The OddsShark computer is taking New England, but the other guys on our panel are basically split even between the Seahawks and the Patriots."
Seattle are predicted to win by SB Nation writers Ryan Van Bibber, Stephen White, David Fucillo and Danny Kelly, while New England are favored by Joel Thorman, PFT Commenter, Matt Ufford and the OddsShark Computer.
11 of The Bleacher Report's NFL experts predict a Seattle Seahawks win, with the other five opting for the Patriots.
The NFL experts at CBS Sports, however, swing more in the Patriots direction, with five of their eight writers opting for Tom Brady and co.... but their prediction machine still, er, predicts a Seattle win.
The Washington Post's sporting statistician Neil Greenberg crunches the numbers and predicts a 23-20 win for the New England Patriots, saying: "The key for New England will be to keep the pressure off Brady and for him to complete the short passes while getting the ball to their best playmaker, tight end Rob Gronkowski."
And, as Mstars News reported, EA Games also ran an entire game simulation to predict the winner the 2015 Super Bowl. You can watch it below:
As Sports Illustrated reported, it was good news for Patriots fans, as "In this year's simulation, the Seahawks led 24-14 in the third quarter following a Marshawn Lynch touchdown run, but the Patriots dug deep and came storming back to win 28-24."
"Computer Tom Brady threw for all four of the Patriots touchdowns in the simulation and was awarded his third Super Bowl MVP award."
Here's hoping for a similar result on Sunday.
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