coolguy

How on earth does benching your best offensive weapon prove you take a opponent seriously?

shmessy

Denver will have 24 hours more rest than NE.

Plus NE has to spend a day traveling to Denver.

Plus the Mile High altitude adjustment is worse in the colder weather.

I'm rooting for Baltimore to win their next two games.

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zipster9

The Bengals are average team at best. Yet, they held the Texans to 1 TD all game.

That alone, tells you that the Texans has not really improved from their miserable limping into playoffs.

IMO - I dont see the Texans going any further. Patriots will win. No doubt.

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titletownpats

The Bengals offense is not good, but their defense is much better than you think

coolguy

I'm glad everyone here cleared up the fact that benching your best/most reliable offensive weapon during a playoff game doesn't mean you're over confident in your team.



I hope more coaches (or one more) uses this measure against the patriots.

zipster9

True, but, Texans D is not far off from Patriots D for the 2012 year...


DEFENSIVE RANKINGS
TEAM SCORE Y/PL FD RA RY YR PA PY YP TY TIME TO PEN
Seattle 15.3 5.1 18.4 23.0 103.1 4.5 35.3 203.1 9.9 306.2 29:37 1.9 6.4
San Francisco 17.1 4.7 17.8 25.4 94.2 3.7 35.4 200.2 9.5 294.4 30:04 1.6 5.8
Chicago 17.3 5.0 17.9 24.3 101.7 4.2 37.0 213.9 9.8 315.6 29:40 2.8 4.9
Denver 18.1 4.6 17.9 25.3 91.1 3.6 34.9 199.6 10.0 290.8 29:43 1.5 7.7
Atlanta 18.7 5.9 18.6 25.7 123.2 4.8 34.4 242.4 11.5 365.6 29:07 1.9 5.2
Pittsburgh 19.6 4.6 17.1 24.4 90.6 3.7 32.7 185.2 9.9 275.8 28:57 1.3 6.3
Miami 19.8 5.3 20.0 26.9 108.4 4.0 37.5 248.4 11.3 356.8 32:58 1.0 7.6
Cincinnati 20.0 5.0 19.2 26.4 107.2 4.1 35.0 212.5 9.8 319.7 30:33 1.9 5.6
New England 20.7 5.7 21.3 25.9 101.9 3.9 37.1 271.4 11.8 373.3 30:32 2.6 6.3
Houston 20.7 5.1 18.3 24.4 97.5 4.0 36.3 225.8 11.7 323.3 28:49 1.8 5.6
Green Bay 21.0 5.2 19.3 26.1 118.5 4.5 35.5 218.3 11.2 336.8 30:33 1.4 7.7
NY Giants 21.5 6.0 19.8 28.1 129.1 4.6 33.4 254.3 11.9 383.4 31:49 2.2 6.4
Baltimore 21.5 5.2 20.4 30.8 122.8 4.0 34.8 228.1 10.9 350.9 32:25 1.6 6.7
Minnesota 21.8 5.2 21.6 26.7 105.8 4.0 38.3 244.3 10.0 350.0 32:33 1.4 6.9
St. Louis 21.8 5.3 20.4 27.6 117.5 4.3 34.2 225.1 10.0 342.6 32:03 1.3 5.6
San Diego 21.9 5.2 19.8 25.4 96.4 3.8 35.5 230.1 10.6 326.4 29:14 1.8 6.4
Arizona 22.3 5.2 18.0 31.6 137.0 4.3 31.1 200.8 11.9 337.8 31:19 2.1 6.3
Carolina 22.7 5.3 20.4 26.0 110.1 4.2 34.7 223.0 9.6 333.1 30:24 1.4 5.4
League Average 22.8 5.4 19.9 27.2 115.9 4.3 34.7 231.3 10.9 347.2 30:18 1.6 6.3

ctpatsfan77

As I've said before. . . . imagine making Gillette a domed stadium. . . . a domed stadium where it snows every single home game.

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zipster9

Sadly, 10-day forecast for Foxboro, MA is low-40s.. No snow.

But, the 12th-man MUST show up @ Foxboro...

coolguy

Anything would be better than that sunshine the ravens beat the patriots in.