Looking at the weapons more accurately....
Denver
Thomas #1, Manny Sanders, Thomas #2 vs. Gronk, Edelman and LaFell
Fully healthy, I may grant Denver the edge here, but it isn't by very much. Gronk is the biggest dual threat and match up advantage, Thomas #1 the best pure receiver. Sanders and Edelman are pretty much a wash. Thomas #2 is basically a large receiver, though he sees some favorable coverage because most teams don't have the depth NE has at CB.
Where do you go from there? Welker? He's no better than Amendola at this point. CJ Anderson? I like him, but much of his success was due to teams overplaying the pass and Virgil Green's blocking. Buffalo and SD held him to under 3 ypc and Cincy contained him (even though his stats were pretty solid). Definitely as asset, but not someone you have to game plan for and certainly no bigger a problem than any of NE's RBs. Even if you put Anderson at the top, NE has much better depth.
So, basically, NE is no worse than marginally worse than the depth chart that is supposedly "MUCH better."
I intended on breaking it down for every team, but I'm not sure that's necessary any more. The Steelers are basically the Bell/Brown show, who account for a ridiculous 58% of the team's total yardage between them. From there you have a bunch of good guys, but none that are at the Edelman level. Maybe Miller is a LaFell caliber TE, but I'd say he is a little lower and all the receivers certainly are. NE definitely has the edge in top three, but Pitt has a sizable advantage in depth.
Baltimore has little other than their top two wideouts. Forsett has had a nice year, but he's got to play some truly terrible run defenses and the run blocking deserves a great deal of credit.
The fact that he even tried to make a case for the Colts being comparable to NE illuminates the bias in his argument. Cincy might have a case with the emergence of Hill, but the QB is awful.
