PATRIOTSFANINPA

7-1 at home WOWEEEEE!!

Who did your team play at home ALL year?......IIAC there isn't ONE playoff team that your team beat in Denver......except the ONLY game with one playoff team .....and your freaking team LOST.

The Chargers,Raiders,Chiefs,Browns,Bucs ect ...... What a tough home schedule!

What makes YOU think YOUR team can beat a SB contender at home after beating scrubs at home all year and losing to the only talented team you faced?

Ivan

The Patriots beat the Ravens, the refs blew the call on the FG, and the Patriots blew out the Broncos, again, it's not their fault it was in Foxboro. What makes me think the Patriots will beat the Broncos is the fact that they have averaged almost 40 points a game against them the last 3 meetings, and Denver defenders came off the field saying they had no answers for the Patriots offesne, that they had tried practicing uptempo all week and it wasn't even close to good enough to slow them down. I know i wouldn't feel confident if the Patriots were going to face a team that had beaten them their last 3 meetings and scored 117 points in those 3 games.

AndyJohnson

I like the one that the Broncos havent beaten a team with a winning record at home, so what makes you think they can beat the Patriots, who already beat you handily?

We beat the 12-4 Texans who you lost to, and oh year, we beat the 13-3 Broncos.

PatsDeb

Who knows what will happen, but hopefully Denver will relax, thinking they are all that, and then be stunned when they get some competition finally. By the way, we are only 3-3 against playoff teams this year. What does that say about us? Not sure. We lost to Baltimore (maybe) and Seattle early and SF late (at home no less). I guess that's why they play the games!

Pat the Pats Fan

Broncos faced 3 playoff teams early, within the first 5 games and lost all three, then in the next 11 games, they faced only 2 playoff teams and won both. The Broncos handled the Ravens easily, but against a really beat up Ravens team. The Ravens limped into the playoffs, losing 4 of their last 5 games, so I would put much credance in the Broncos win. Should be an interesting playoffs. Let the games begin.

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A sarcastic Bill Belichick on Tom Brady's finger injury, "It's not life threatening."

DENVERBRONCOS2012

Yeah...It is suppose to be harder to beat better teams on the road than home so i do not follow that logic

But to bring up this who beat who thing...I could just respond with how Arizona beat the pats at home...losing to a bad team is something the broncos have yet to do.

However, all of this should easily disprove the broncos are easiest path to SB. The same argument can be made for the pats, who lose to bad teams and havent beat a good team on the road, which they must do to get to the SB. But I am not going to argue that the pats are easy to beat as the OP did with the broncos...that would be irrational

But what I am perplexed by is the fact that many posters here think the broncos are easy or not tested. The facts speak differently and the broncos are not the same team as they were in the first half of the season. Good teams not only beat bad teams or even average teams like the saints, panthers, Bucs and chargers (all 7-9), but do so with large margins (check that). Obviously you can take the winning percentage of the last half of football for the broncos but the KC team's record certainly makes the W/L record in the second half much more worse than it is. There were four 7-9 teams and two 10-6 playoff teams that got smoked.

Anybody want to consider the patriots second half opponents winning percentage with the 2-14 jags included? A second half that included a loss as well. but yeah, I still am not going to say the pats are easy. They will be a tough team in the playoffs but I dont think they are as complete as the broncos.

JMC00

I believe it was 31-7 with 2 minutes left in the 3rd. That was when the defense was bad, no Hernandez, Lloyd and Brady hadn't really gotten in rhythm, Vereen wasn't part of the offense as much as he is now (he got 1 carry in that game), no Gregory, no Hightower. Justin Francis & Brandon Deaderick had a combined 2 snaps in that game and the 2 were Deaderick.

Tavon Wilson and Pat Chung were the safeties playing 65 & 66 of the 66 snaps. Sterling Moore played half the defensive snaps.

And Belichick wasn't sending Linebackers and Defensive Backs on blitzes

josh24

Read the post again. I'm not talking about all the opponents, just the ones you beat. Your team made it the easy way because they lost to real threats (NE, HOU and ATL) and won against the easy ones.

Ivan

Denver may have had the easiest road to their seed, that's debatable, however they have the hardest road to winning the Super bowl, as to do so they have to win 14 in a row, and the only team to do that in the last 15 years was the 2003 Patriots. Long winning streaks entering the play-offs seem to be a real problem in terms of winning the tournament.

josh24

DEN went 7-1 at home. Those 7 teams they beat at home combined for a 17-39 record on the road (0.30357 W-L%).
NE went 6-2 at home. Those 6 teams they beat at home combined for a 23-25 record on the road (0.47917 W-L%).

DEN went 6-2 on the road. Those 6 teams they beat on the road combined for a 20-28 record at home (0.41667 W-L%).
NE went 6-2 on the road. Those 6 teams they beat on the road combined for a 21-27 record at home (0.43750 W-L%).

'Nuff said.