Felger & Mazz: Super Bowl XLIX Could Be Game For The Ages
BOSTON (CBS) - With the Celtics broadcast taking over at 3pm on this Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, it was an abbreviated version of Felger & Massarotti on 98.5 The Sports Hub Monday afternoon.
Tony Massarotti began the show with a public admittal.
"Cleary, when you look at the landscape of the AFC, I had [the Championship] nailed huh?" Mazz said sarcastically. "I thought it was going to be reasonably competitive. What a joke."
The Patriots (once again) demolished Andrew Luck and the Colts, this time to the tune of 45-7, marking the team's largest margin of victory in their postseason history.
So here we are, two weeks away from the biggest game on the biggest stage. New England travels to Glendale to take on the defending champion Seahawks, in what Felger & Mazz believe is the best possible matchup the league could have gotten.
"How could you want anything else [besides Patriots-Seahawks]?" asked Mazz.
"It's the best matchup, for sure," Felger responded.
"No question. This will be a fabulous, fabulous Super Bowl. This one has the making of a great game, a great matchup -- the whole nine yards," said Mazz. "The Patriots deserve to be there. This is the best Patriots team I've seen in a long time."
This marks the sixth Super Bowl appearance for the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick duo, who are 3-2 combined in the previous five big games. Felger has long advocated that Brady and Belichick need one more ring for their legacy, and to finally put the stink of Spygate behind them.
"The stakes here for this Patriots team are not just for this week and this championship -- as if that's not big enough -- it's, you win this game and you deserve to be talked about as the greatest team of all time. Those are high stakes," said Felger.
"They're already in that conversation, but if they lose their last three Super Bowls and don't get the fourth, I don't think they quite reach that level of [Joe] Montana and the 49ers, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 70's or the Packers of the 60's. They would be that next rung below, which is still a great place to be."
But standing in the way of that fourth ring are the Seahawks, the defending champions.
"[Patriots] are gonna have to earn it. You have a team and a program there [in Seattle] that's been ascending now for a couple years, they won it all last year; the [Seahawks] are at this specific moment the most dominant team the last two years, and now they're going up against a team that has been [the standard] over a 15-year period. Could you ask for a better storyline?" asked Mazz.
"This to me has the makings of a game for the ages."
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