It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello, good everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network, as we put the finishing touches on the NFL season, with Seattle's dominant performance against New England.

Hey, this was a year where the consensus was right.

You know, more times than not, if you center in on a team that is vulnerable on the offensive line to the other team's pass rush, you usually can solve the game very easily. That was the case

last year with Philadelphia. That was the case this year. I thought Seattle's defense would

dominate the New England offensive line. I talked at length about the 15 sacks and the six

fumbles that may have had had in the postseason.

And look what happened today.

I mean, it was a more of the same and even a more dominant performance.

The one surprise here was how much trouble that Donald had in the passing game.

Obviously, you know, JSN got banged up.

They thought he had a concussion for a while.

He targeted him with a lot of passes that were badly thrown.

Let's be honest.

Sam didn't throw the ball well today.

Walker, I'm sure will be the MVP. I didn't wait around for the MVP, but I'm not giving

it to the kicker. I'm giving it to Walker. He was the MVP. The defense was brilliant.

You know, Seattle wasn't a team that blitzed a lot. It was a team that liked to get there

with four men, but they blitzed a lot and effectively this evening.

Obviously got some big plays and comfortably won the game going away in what was in really an overwhelming defensive effort.

The better team won.

Listen, Buffalo should have got here this year.

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