That said, Seattle will not win a shootout with Denver, so their defense will need to be even better than it was tonight.
“The Hawks/Niners games looked “sloppier” because both of the NFC teams have much better defenses. Good defense is disruptive and makes offensive execution suffer. “
And yet the score was basically the same in the Denver/New England game without any of the turnovers and penalties in the SF/Seattle game. So looks to me like the Denver/New England game had the better defenses.
Kapernick’s turnovers were almost exclusively about extremely stupid decisions rather than brilliant defensive plays. A smarter quarterback would have never made those throws in the first place. And Wilson running all over heck and back and fumbling on the first play, getting called for intentional grounding, all the sloppy hanoffs by both teams was sloppy play. Almost nothing like any of that happened to either Denver or New England.