The most awaited Big Game on Sunday is expected to become an offensive showdown between two high-scoring teams: New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons. As the much-anticipated Super Bowl LI main event comes close, experts gave their predictions on which team can win the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
Because both Patriots and Falcons have scored no less than 34 points in a game, sports fans and analysts are all eager to watch the exciting match-up, which is considered a well-deserved treat after the lackluster play-off games.
At a close margin, more NFL experts expect the Tom Brady's and Bill Belichick's squad will win the Super Bowl LI championship game against Dan Quinn's team, Sports Illustrated reported.
Ben Baskin believes that the Super Bowl LI game on Sunday will not be a shoot-out in favor of New England, but with the season's top quarterback on their side, the Patriots will be able to do a successful finish.
Greg Bedard also gave credit to both teams, most especially to their quarterbacks - Matt Ryan for Atlanta Falcons and Brady for New England Patriots, who have done splendid job during the play-offs. Bedard said the quality of defense will dictate the winner for this offensive match-up.
Greg Bishop, for his part, favors Patriots with its "underappreciated defense and versatile collection of skilled players." He also noted the interesting possibility that the league's Commisioner Roger Goodell will be giving the coveted trophy to the player he suspended before, who is New England's Brady.
Experts, including Chris Burke, Jacob Feldman, Melissa Jacobs, Bette Marston, Andrew Perloff, believes that Patriots, led by the praised quarterback skills of Brady and the experience of Belichick, will be able to end the season with flying colors.
On the other hand, Mitch Goldich said Atlanta Falcons can win the Super Bowl LI trophy against the crowd favorite Patriots because of Ryan, who the former predicts that will be named as the season's MVP.
Jonathan Jones also believes Ryan will spread the Falcon's wings towards the Super Bowl LI trophy so as Ammy Parlapiano, who said that the Atlanta squad will prove on the Big Game that they are not underdogs against New England. Eric Single also placed his bet on Falcons.
With all of these forecasts, it makes a 7 vs 5 predictions in favor of New England Patriots against Atlanta Falcons on the upcoming Super Bowl major event this Sunday.
Meanwhile, aside from NFL experts, a videogame which has been almost accurate in predicting results of Super Bowl main events predicts that the Lombardi trophy will be in the hands of the Patriots. "Madden NFL 17" has recently released its annual prediction and revealed that the New England will win at 27-24, CNBC reported.
The Super Bowl LI is set on Feb. 5, 6:30 PM Eastern time at NRG Stadium in Houston.