This is an amazing match-up stylistically. The Eagles Offensive philosophy is completely opposite of what teams have been trying to do against us all year.
I think that their fast paced Offense with a ton of pass attempts is a disaster waiting to happen against the Seahawks, it's probably the worst strategy imaginable. Maybe they will try to focus even more on running the ball to make things easier for Sanchez? They are a pretty balanced offense ranked 5th in passing yards and 6th in rushing yards...
I'm just not sure about their strategy to go fast paced with presumably more of a focus on the running game against us... if we can stop them just a few times early in the game they might realize how much time we are killing with our drives and how their Defense is getting gassed. They could find themselves in a situation where they are forced to throw the ball if we take a 2 score lead and then Sanchez could really make things messy for them.
No matter how I think about the Eagle's Offense I just don't see their strategy working against the Seahawks unless we totally poop the bed like against the Chargers or Dallas which I don't see happening after our last 2 games. To me it seems like the Eagles need to abandon their fast paced style and play a more cautious, methodical, time of possession war.
I am very interested to see if they do slow down their pace (which to me seems like the only way they would have a chance), or if Chip Kelly is so foolishly confident/arrogant that he will try to force his style against us even though it contradicts all common sense against our Defense (for what most likely results in an embarrassing beat down exposing his Offense).
The least amount of points the Eagles have scored this year is 20 against Arizona and Green Bay. They also scored 21 against San Fransisco. I believe the Seahawks Defense in their current form are far superior to any of those 3 teams so I must conclude the Eagles will score less than 20 points.
Common Opponents: Packers, Redskins, Cowboys, Rams, Panthers, Giants, Cardinals, 49ers
Points scored against common opponents:
Seahawks = 201 points (25.125 points a game)
Eagles = 237 points (29.625 points a game)
Points allowed against common opponents:
Seahawks = 123 points (15.375 points a game)
Eagles = 196 points (24.5 points a game)
Average score against common opponents:
Seahawks win 25-15 (+10 margin of victory)
Eagles win 30-25 (+5 margin of victory)
Notice how on average the Seahawks score 25 points, that is the exact amount the Eagles allow.
On average the Eagles score 30 points, which is twice as much as the Seahawks allow.
I must conclude that the Seahawks are the better team based on common opponents (among many other factors). The Seahawks margin of victory is twice as big.
According to this common opponent data, mathematically the score would be 25-23 in favor of the Seahawks.
But when factoring in the Seahawks 5 point advantage in margin of victory and converting that into the average outcome of 25-23 you get something along the lines of 28-21, 27-20, 24-17, 23-16 etc...
No matter how you wanna slice this data it seems like Seahawks should win by 7.
However at the end of the day you can't always rely on pure mathematical statistics to determine the outcome of such a complex game. Although any of those scores are probably very good picks I think the way the Seahawks Defense is playing right now and facing a questionable error-prone QB like Sanchez... I think we win by even a larger margin than all my nerdy math stuff would predicate.
FINAL PREDICTION:
Seahawks win 30-17!
Record: 7-4 (missed Oakland prediction)
