Vegas says Seahawks win in week 17 and it won’t be close
By Lee Vowell
The Seahawks don’t need a win against the Cardinals to make the playoffs. But oddsmakers thinks they win on Sunday. Easily.
The Seahawks are going to the playoffs. The only question left for them is whether they will go into the postseason as a fifth-seed or a sixth-seed. A win over Arizona in week 17 will clinch a fifth-seed for Seattle.
The difference between a fifth-seed and a sixth-seed is nearly meaningless as both seeds would start on the road. But the biggest reason to try to earn the fifth-seed is a potential home game later in the playoffs should the fifth and sixth seeds meet late in the postseason. And anything is possible in the NFC.
Las Vegas has little doubt that the Seahawks will defeat the Cardinals on Sunday and do so with ease. According to Odds Shark, Seattle is favored by 13 points in week 17. There is one really good reason for the point-spread.
That reason is that the Cardinals are atrocious at stopping the run. And the Seahawks are very good at getting yards on the ground. Over the past three weeks the Cardinals have allowed – and I am not making this up – 202 yards per game rushing to opposing teams. Rams running back C.J. Anderson, who I am pretty sure retired sometime in the early 1980s, ran for – again, I am not making this up – 167 yards in week 16 against Arizona.
Of course, Seattle might decide to rest Chris Carson on Sunday. But someone is going to run the ball for the Seahawks and that someone is going to get a lot of yards. And hopefully a few touchdowns.
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Due to Seattle being really good at running the ball, the Seahawks should win even if they are resting most of their team. A fifth-seed should be clinched. Let’s hope it pays off late in the 2018 playoffs.