Sometimes a team will leave everything on the field to GET to a Superbowl. When the big game arrives they have nothing left. It looked like that yesterday. It wasnt Manning that lost the game, the whole team looked like they were just going through the motions.
IMO you nailed it. What was clear to me yesterday was that the Seahawks wisely spent every second of the last two weeks studying Broncos footage. They had the Broncos figured out, down to the timing of their plays.
What was equally clear was that the Broncos had not done their homework, didn't think they needed to, or else five of them were still experiencing jet lag after their trip to the Pro Bowl.