Super Bowl teams offseason lessons: Spending pays off for Patriots, Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots are the matchup in Super Bowl LX. It has been settling in my head for more than a day, and I still can’t fully wrap my mind around it. Both the Seahawks and the Patriots had preseason odds of 25-1 to win their respective conferences, making them the biggest underdogs to make a Super Bowl since the 2021 Bengals -- tied for the fourth-biggest odds for any teams of the past 20 years. That they are here is a surprise and an achievement. Had the preseason favorites made the Super Bowl -- Bills vs. Eagles, Chiefs vs. Lions, etc. -- there wouldn’t be too much worth examining in the “how” of their ascension. We knew how that would go ... had it gone...