A lot has been said over the past couple of weeks about Super Bowl XLIX from 2015, where the New England Patriots pulled off an improbable 28-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, and the fact that Super Bowl LX this Sunday may be seen as a chance for payback. This may be so for the Seattle fans, but for the players, no member of the current Patriots nor Seahawks squads was in the 2015 rosters, including quarterbacks (QBs) Tom Brady and Russell Wilson, and coaches Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll.

Truth be told, there is no connection in the locker rooms between the 2015 teams and the personnel this season, and the only existing resources from that time, still with an active role in the National Football League (NFL), is wide receiver Tyler Lockett, who was with Seattle up until last season, but is currently with the Las Vegas Raiders. Which leaves us with the Seattle fans, who will definitely remember the circumstances in 2015, and will make it their duty to remind all who might have forgotten or inform those who were not around to witness at the time.

That said, if this year’s Super Bowl between the Patriots and the Seahawks is anywhere close to the last time these two franchises met on this stage, it will be worth the price of admission. The Seahawks, similar to their previous three Super Bowl trips, have been buoyed by one of the best defences in the NFL, allowing the fewest points in the league this season and finished first in yards per pass attempt allowed and yards per rush attempt allowed. The Patriots were no slouch in the defensive department either and stepped up their game even more in the postseason, registering the best play-off run since the vaunted 2000 Baltimore Ravens, allowing just 26 points (average 8.7) through their three wins.

With a fairly level playing field defensively, the offence, particularly in the play-offs, is where there comes a bit of separation between the two teams. The Seahawks offence went through a rough patch down the stretch of the regular season, but found solid footing in the play-offs, scoring 72 points across the two wins, while the Patriots amassed 54 over their three postseason games. To be fair, the Patriots did play in a flurry of snow against the Denver Broncos, where they persevered 10-7.

The New England offence, which was the reason for much of the team’s regular-season success, has not fared as well as the defence in the play-offs. Their 18.0 postseason points per game is the fewest entering a Super Bowl appearance since the 1979 Los Angeles Rams and while QB Drake Maye has made a number of electric plays in this his first postseason, the Patriots offence needs to regain its regular season form if they have ambitions to cap off what has been a remarkable turnaround for the franchise, with a Super Bowl victory.

To say that the Patriots have overachieved this season is an understatement. The team was dismal over the last three seasons (8-9, 3-14, 3-14, respectively), but first-year Head Coach Mike Vrable, a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots, has lifted the team out of the depths of insignificance. He is now the second to make the Super Bowl as both a player and a coach of the same team, the other being Gary Subiak (Broncos), and if he wins, he will join Mike Ditka and Tom Flores as the only persons to win the Lombardi Trophy as both player and coach, but will be the first to win as player and coach of the same team.

JustBet offers the Patriots as underdogs entering the weekend and the path for them to eke out a win starts with stopping QB Sam Darnold, plus his cadre of offensive weapons, including receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who led the league in receiving yards (1,793) this season, and was named Offensive Player of the Year last week. Darnold, who joined Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to put together back-to-back 14-win seasons, led the league in turnovers (20) this season, including 14 interceptions, but has been turnover-free in the play-offs, which should be a concern for the New England defense. However, the Patriots have forced 10 turnovers in these play-offs and will be hoping to turn the table by forcing Darnold into untimely mistakes.

The Seattle offensive line has done a good job in providing their QB with a clean pocket, for the most part in the two play-off games, and protected him outside of the pocket during play action, but Milton Williams, who was impactful in last year’s Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles, K’Lavon Chaisson and other members of the New England front seven will hope to provide enough pressure to influence poor decisions by Darnold, and provide opportunities for their offence. Not that it will be a walk in the park for Maye, who has taken five sacks and had six fumbles (lost three) in the three games played, against three of the NFL’s best defences, but the Seahawks are the best defensive unit this year and it could spell trouble. The disruptive duo of Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy II, plus a plethora of edge rushers should keep the rushing numbers of the New England QB ticking over.

The Seahawks should win, but the Patriots didn’t come all this way to lay down and play dead. A battle is expected in California, but will it be sweet revenge for the Seattle faithful or a bit of history repeating itself. Speaking of which, along with the Lombardi Trophy, a lot of history is on the line. The Patriots are currently joint leaders in all-time Super Bowl wins with six, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and will sit atop the ladder with seven, if they win. Maye is the second youngest QB to start a Super Bowl (behind Dan Marino) and he is looking to become the youngest quarterback to win a Super Bowl, while Darnold is looking to become the first quarterback to win a Super Bowl after playing for at least five different teams. The stakes can’t get much higher and Sunday can’t come too soon. Are you ready for some football?

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Super Bowl LX Champion

– February 8, 2026

Team Odds

Seattle Seahawks 1.40

New England Patriots 2.75

*Note: Odds are subject to change

Dareke Young of the Seattle Seahawks takes the field during a practice ahead of Super Bowl LX at San Jose State University on February 04, 2026 in San Jose, California. (Photos: AFP)AFP