AFC Championship Game : Patriots vs. Colts -- Pre-Game Thread

I know the Colts played really well the last two weeks, but who did they face? The Bengals? The Broncos with a toast Manning? Let's not go overboard on them. They are a good team, but the Pats are significantly better and match up really well against them.

Rob0729 said:

This is this week's last team the Pats wanted to come to Foxboro. Funny, last week it was the Ravens even with the Colts being a possibility to come into Foxboro.

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I know .. Some folks didn't pick up the sarcasm, ..lol

Archeryaddict12 said:

Question now becomes, how banged up is stork? Ir, inactive or ready to go?

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Stork played very well week 11 vs the Colts too. Hope he can go. The line didn't skip a beat without him though. The replacements aren't great, but they are vets that have been here before.

Well...good, now Brady can rest some next week after going all crazy throwing the ball yesterday

Rob0729 said:

I know the Colts played really well the last two weeks, but who did they face? The Bengals? The Broncos with a toast Manning? Let's not go overboard on them. They are a good team, but the Pats are significantly better and match up really well against them.

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LOL, this is how you describe every opponent. This time, however, I actually agree with you!

Belichick rested up Jonas Gray cuz he knew this would happen. Haha

letekro said:

LOL, this is how you describe every opponent. This time, however, I actually agree with you!

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Most of the time I am right. Funny, I was right about the Ravens defense (they barely slowed down the Pats' offense for the most part), but like everyone else I underestimated the Ravens' offense vs. the Pats' defense.

Judging by what I saw tonight I would have rather had the Broncos.

I know everyone optimism is gonna be through the roof re: this match-up and although we played them well last time I just feel uncomfortable thinking the Colts are gonna automatically punch our ticket.

I think if we play well I like our chances...I hope the hoodie gets his staff to come up with all the reasons why we we need to play well.

I guess ultimately what the message needs to be is that since we are this close put that freaking pedal to the metal...

Some of y'all are fooling yourselves with Gray, and the running game .. We all have been around long enough to know that BB and McDaniels will outsmart themselves and go 5 wides all game .. save this post ..

Rob0729 said:

Most of the time I am right. Funny, I was right about the Ravens defense (they barely slowed down the Pats' offense for the most part), but like everyone else I underestimated the Ravens' offense vs. the Pats' defense.

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Haha. Yes most time you are right, as the Pats have won about 80% of their games since Brady took over.

Does anyone remember Lil Ronnie, the Colts fan?

so, do the Pats go with a power wishbone offense with Blount and Gray both on the field at the same time??

SunsOutGunsOut said:

I know .. Some folks didn't pick up the sarcasm, ..lol

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LOL, thank God that was sarcasm! You had me worried there...

Color me surprised. The Colts had issues in prior games that I did not see them curing in Denver. Good for them.

With that said, the Colts are not a bad matchup for the Pats (I don't know if it is a better matchup than Denver now, as the version of the Donkeys down the stretch was not the same as the dominant one the Pats beat in November (due to age, injury, etc.)). The Ravens were. As with most playoff games, the Pats need to execute and show fire right from the opening bell or they can easily lose this.

If stork can't go, hope the OL can hold up.

Having the ability to run against the Colts, will open up play-action for TomB.

The only thing which will make me cringe in this matchup how BB clams up scared vs mobile QBs . But 3 of the 4 Qbs in the final 4 are mobile so have other choice.

juny said:

If stork can't go, hope the OL can hold up.

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Highly doubt he plays based on everything I've heard, another reason Colts front are a good draw this week.

Hopefully he can go if they make SB

Who is legitimately injured for this one? For both teams?

Rob0729 said:

I know the Colts played really well the last two weeks, but who did they face? The Bengals? The Broncos with a toast Manning? Let's not go overboard on them. They are a good team, but the Pats are significantly better and match up really well against them.

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Your right because if manning hits 50% of the passes he overthrew or missed it would be a different game, Brady won't miss that many and Denver's receivers dropped a lot of them also.