Three quick reasons the Seahawks will beat the Cowboys on Saturday

Wild Card weekend will not be easy but the Seahawks have reasons they should win. Here they three of them.

So, 12s, your Seahawks made the playoffs in 2018? Great. And for the record, I am also a 12. Am I surprised that Seattle made the playoffs this season? I was after week two. But just a bit. The rest of the NFL does not seem to know one can never truly discount Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson and especially when expectations are small.

Against the Cowboys on Saturday, Seattle is a 1.5-point underdog. While Dallas could just as easily defeat Seattle as Seattle does Dallas, I can think of three quick reasons why the Seahawks will beat the Cowboys and move on to the divisional round of the playoffs. Here are those reasons.

Russell Wilson is better than your team’s quarterback

Wilson is a winner. Seattle’s quarterback is 8-4 in the playoffs in his career with three of those wins coming away from CenturyLink. In fact, Wilson has played seven of his postseason games somewhere other than Seattle so Wilson knows what it is like to win on the road.

In three Wild Card games in his career, Wilson has thrown for four touchdowns against just one interception. Seattle has also never lost a Wild Card game with Wilson as quarterback. Why start on Saturday against Dallas?

And who would you rather have: Wilson or Dak Prescott? No offense to Prescott because there are worse quarterbacks, but Wilson is better.

Seattle has a bigger upside

Forget the Wilson versus Prescott matchup for a minute because Seattle should have the advantage there. If both teams were to play perfect football, Seattle should win. The Seahawks have the better punter (First Team All Pro Michael Dickson)and best defensive player in the game. Seattle’s receiving corps with Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett is better overall than Dallas’.

And while the defenses of each team are pretty good but not yet great, Seattle may have the best player on the field no matter the position in linebacker Bobby Wagner.

The Seahawks should be the less-stressed team

Seattle is playing with house money. Nobody expected the team to make the postseason. They also aren’t playing at home. Plus, Seattle will be better next year than they are this season.

Dallas on the other hand still has a coach in Jason Garrett who has to prove he can win in the postseason. And while Cowboys fans will be there to cheer their team on, if the game gets away from them they could be booing too.

All the stress of this game is on the Cowboys and not the Seahawks. If Seattle plays loose, a little like the Cardinals did against them in week 17, the Seahawks should win and move on. Every victory for Seattle is one more than anyone expected in 2018.