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Patriots Dynasty!!!!

Super Bowl XXXVI XXXVIII XXXIX Champs

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jcdavey

there's only one correct answer

the pats, they've never lost a home game with BB, in the playoffs

their problem is, the odds are they'll only get one home game

even though they're not as good this season as others, one thing on their side is that 2nd game (road game) will be vs a team they know very well (sd or indy)

Jangles

The Saints

eagle eye

A good team will always have a home advantage.

The Denver Broncos had a huge home advantage back in the day, the lighter air made it difficult for QBs to get their groove on, overthrowing and underthrowing was very common for an away QB in Mile High. Thats the old mile high but the newer one Invesco Field is not much easier.

Its between Invesco and Lambeau Field imo. How many teams have went to Green Bay on a hot streak and lost? I don't know exactly but its happened a lot.

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NEGoldenAge

It's a no-brainer. Denver.

WelshPat

The Saints would be up there

PatsFanSince74

Isn't there a Poll and thread on this already running?

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PatsFanSince74

Hard to tell because several of those teams don't have enough of a Playoff history in recent years to give us any indication.

I guess the CW would be that the Pats would be towards the top just based on not losing a home playoff game this decade in what can be miserable weather in January. Minnesota, New Orleans and Seattle are notoriously difficult for visiting teams, so they'd be up there as well, but none of those teams has enough playoff history to give us any real sense of what will happen. Indy used to have a big advantage, but the crowd noise and other conditions in their new stadium are not as bad for visitors as before. There's no indication that the new Cowboys stadium is all that unfriendly to visitors.

It's not clear what home field is really worth though. If we go back to 2005, the SB has been won by a number six, three, five (can't forget that one) and two seed respectively. The only number one seed to win the SB this decade was the Pats in 2003.

[Edit: another poster's comment reminds me that I would definitely put Denver on that list. If you don't have time to acclimate, it will get to every position player on the team.]

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upstater1

1. Denver
2. New England
3. New Orleans
4. Indy
5. KC
6. Miami
7. Buffalo
8. Washington
9. Dallas
10. Oakland

New England and Buffalo are purely because of the weather. Both places are not intimidating to visit in September.

Denver has the biggest advantage. Teams psyche themselves out, and if they ignore the air, they start feeling it regardless at some point.

New Orleans, KC, Washington and Dallas are loud.
At Oakland, your life is threatened.
Miami in the first two months of the season is way too hot for football.
Finally Indy. Piped-in noise, the heat turned up, food poisoned the night before at the hotel. Polian is like Red Auerbach when it comes to building a home field advantage.