SEATTLE - Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl two wins shy another coronation.
Saturday night demolition 31-17 divisional round of the Carolina Panthers moved seeded Seattle NFC championship Sunday against the winner of the Dallas-Green Bay on Sunday. The defeat was a presentation of the Seahawks football classic - fast lead a defense, hard drive and no one way to make a game that made the biggest difference time on the third try and recreate found.
His victory was the first for a reigning champion in a decade.
Three times in the third and long, large play any proven quarterback Russell Wilson, a receiver Doug Baldwin and Jermaine Kearse paths running freely in sewing found a pair of touchdowns in the first half. So Wilson sealed the deal with a 25-yard, fourth quarter scoring strike hit tight end Luke Wilson third and 10 bombings.
Once loaded, remove the Panthers Formula Marshawn Lynch, Wilson at a clinic that goes with his postseason performance even more effective. He finished 15 of 22 for 268 yards with three touchdowns to enter the seventh straight victory for the Seahawks.
Quarterback double threat on why the Seahawks seem to be the most complete team in the postseason after extending his great career 41-13 winningest quarterback in the league during the first three seasons were efficient and accurate.
Wilson, now 5-1 in the postseason, was on point from the start, hitting nine of his first 13 passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns in the first half.
So go ahead, keep mocking receiver Seahawks as a pedestrian. Seattle is two wins on the first repeat champion since 2004, the New England Patriots did because all Baldwin and Kearse did was play with an edge and walk right past some defensive rookies.
The Panthers 8-9-1 second team in league history in the playoffs with a losing record, hanging around, just 14-10 lag rest. They played with a feeling relieved to have something to lose after having saved their season with a streak after a 3-8-1 start five games.
But Wilson and narrower after cornerback Richard Sherman has receptors for their children this week, when in fact he said to call Seattle receptors fighter, pedestrians, but be sure to call them "masters".
On the third and seventh of his 37, Wilson fired a perfect shot Kearse, which had a step rookie corner BENE Benwikere. Kearse caught the ball with one hand, then dived into the end zone pylon left for a 63-yard touchdown. Touchdown pass longest in history after season of the series, has put the Seahawks up 14-7 at Century Field cheered.
A rapid flow Seahawks defense intercepted Cam Newton twice, making an exclamation point on the track when the safety Kam Chancellor fourth quarter uptake turned his playoff record 90-yard franchise.
