ivotuk":1lxkld2i said:
Popeyejones":1lxkld2i said:
I wonder if Dallas (not the fans) is in danger of looking past Detroit a little too much?
What indication do we have that anyone on the team is looking past anyone?
If any team is looking past anyone I'd guess it would be the Hawks given that their first playoff matchup is going to come against a team that's seriously outclassed by the rest of the NFC playoff teams, and probably even a fair number of teams which missed the playoffs (the below .500 Panthers, or 3rd string QB Cardinals who they recently obliterated).
I don't think any team is looking past anyone (that's something that fans do, IMO), but the Super Bowl champ Hawks looking past the Cardinals or Panthers makes a lot more sense than the Cowboys looking past the Lions, IMO.
You couldn't be more wrong. This team is the epitome of "going 1-0 every week" and how you could come off saying the Cowboys are more likely to take a game seriously than the Seahawks is beyond me.

ukeface:
What other banal old sports cliches are the Seahawks the living embodiment of?
Why do you guys keep on intentionally ignoring that I clearly stated that I don't think anyone is looking past anyone else? Is the problem that if you acknowledged it you wouldn't have anything to pretend to feel disrespected about?
Think about it this way: the likelihood of a team being overlooked has as much or more to do with that team than it does with the team they're playing. This is the way we talk about it ALL THE TIME (e.g. trap games, etc.) because it makes sense to do so. All things being equal which two NFC playoff teams are most likely to be overlooked? It's obvious. One of them is the only team in the playoffs below.500 and the other one has gone 1-4 since being down to their third string QB. Focusing on the teams which might be overlooked means we don't have to rely on magical thinking or stupid old sports cliches.
And despite all that, I still don't think anyone is overlooking anyone else.
Get it together, man.