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What will happen in Super Bowl XLIX?

ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly from training camp through Super Bowl with answers to a new question being posted Thursday morning. How the guest experts responded when we asked them: What will happen in Super Bowl XLIX?

SAM HENDRICKS

The first quarter will be slow and dull as both teams spar trying to find weaknesses. Score: NE 7-SEA 0. The 2nd quarter will see Brady connect with Gronk for their second TD and Seattle kick 2 field goals. Score: NE 14-SEA 6. The halftime show with Katy Perry will be a smash hit and the Victoria Secret commercial will win best commercial of the Super Bowl. The Seahawks explode for two TDs from Marshawn Lynch in the third quarter to take a slim lead. Score: SEA 20-NE 17. Seattle extends their lead midway in the fourth with a long field goal but lose in the final two minutes as LeGarrette Blount scores a short-yardage rushing TD. Final Score: NE 24-SEA 23. MVP Tom Brady with 317 passing yards and 2 TDs

Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Basics, all available at ExtraPointPress.com, at all major bookstores, and at Amazon and BN.com. He is a 20-plus year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 competitors) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

ALAN SATTERLEE

I could see this going any number of ways. I see New England ultimately sealing the deal, but again, this one is really tough to call in my opinion. If so, Tom Brady joins a very short list (Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana) as 4-time Super Bowl champions.

Satterlee is Co-Owner and Chief Editor/COO of FantasyFootballWarehouse.com. FFW features comprehensive profiles for all the major 2013 skill-position rookies, its Trading Spaces series, the team Deep Dives, the Speed Bump competition plus draft strategies, rankings, projections and more. FFW runs in tandem with its dynasty site DynastyFootballWarehouse.com.

JAMES SELTZER

This is the closest Super Bowl matchup I can remember, and is brimming with storylines. We can only hope the game lives up to all the hype, and I believe that it will. Bill Belichick is a master of getting his team to rally together when everyone is against them, so I believe that DeflateGate will not be too much of a distraction for the Pats on Sunday. Furthermore, giving Belichick two weeks to prepare for a team (any team) seems like an unfair advantage. However, having said all that, I think Seattle is just the better team. Seattle's defense is a matchup nightmare for any offense, because they come out and punch you in the mouth. They force offense's to play their game, and few have found a way to beat them at said game. As a result, I think the Seahawks win a close one (24-21), on the backs of their defense yet again, becoming the first repeat champ in a decade.

Seltzer is a writer of NFL content for Rotowire.com. Since 1997, RotoWire.com has been one of the leading fantasy sports resources on the web. Seltzer can be found on Twitter @JamesSeltzer975.

DAVID DOREY

The Patriots will dissect the Seahawks' game against the Packers to see just how to slow down that Seattle offense again – though there are no secrets. The Seahawks have some injuries on defense that may impact the game but these two teams don’t match up well. Seattle is far better at home and is not used to multi-pronged attacks like the Pats have. It should be a good game to watch but the Patriots should take this one when the Seahawks' challenges to pass come to hurt them.

Dorey is the co-founder and lead NFL analyst for The Huddle and author of Fantasy Football: The Next Level. He has projected and predicted every NFL game and player performance since 1997 and has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, radio and television.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

Seattle 27, New England 20.

Nazarek is the CEO of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc. His company offers a preseason draft guide, customizable cheat sheets, a multi-use fantasy drafting program including auction values, weekly in-season fantasy newsletters, injury reports and free NFL news (updated daily) at its web site. He has been playing fantasy football since 1988 and is a four-peat champion of the SI.com Experts Fantasy League, a nationally published writer in several fantasy magazines and a former columnist for SI.com. For more info go to www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

ANDY RICHARDSON

I am thinking of New England's meeting with the Giants after the 2007 season, also in Arizona, won by New York 17-14. Like that matchup, these are two teams with very good defenses, that will make moving the ball tough for opposing offenses. Neither team has an elite receiving corps, and I don't think LeGarrette Blount is good enough to really do much against Seattle's run defense. Should be a good, low-scoring game with turnovers key, and I simply have seen Seattle pull out too many of these kinds of games in recent years to bet against them. I'm calling it Seattle 23, New England 17.

Richardson has been a contributor and editor to the Fantasy Football Index magazine and www.fantasyindex.com since 2002. His responsibilities include team defense and IDP projections and various site features, and he has run the magazine's annual experts draft and auction leagues since their inception. He previews all the NFL games on Saturdays and writes a wrap-up column on Mondays during the NFL season.

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