New England at Denver AFCCG pre game thread.

A Defiant Goose · Jan 20, 2016

It didn't work but thank you all for the honest effort

TinhWoodhead · Jan 20, 2016

where is the predict the score thread for this game.......

FourierSeries · Jan 20, 2016

A Defiant Goose said:
Can somebody talk me down a little and give me a few reasons why I shouldn't be so confident about NE winning Sunday? I really have never felt better about this team in the AFCCG before, again aside from last year. It makes me uncomfortable feeling so confident

You have every right to feel confident. If anything, you don't seem confident enough.

This will resemble the 2011 game we played in Denver.

RobertWeathers · Jan 20, 2016

Anybody else getting crickets from friends/co-workers who are Broncos fans?

I've been subtly trying to provoke them into a cordial discussion but they are not biting.

In 2013 they were relentless

RobertWeathers · Jan 20, 2016

Anyone else see the evidence of the "BSPN Excuse-making Machine" fully operational?

borisman · Jan 20, 2016

PatriotsPimp136 said:
Brady needs to exercise his demons in denver ths sunday. Needs to play well.

This.
As long the OL plays well he's good to go. We've seen what they're un-capable of in the past and this isn't the D you want to play poorly against.
The last AFCCG there was ugly for the whole team. They should all actually exercise some demons.

denverpatsfan · Jan 20, 2016

I am thinking we will see Brock if the Pats are up by a couple scores and the Donks O has been ineffective. Kubiak will be hailed as a genius.

Whitt25 · Jan 20, 2016

robertweathers said:
Anybody else getting crickets from friends/co-workers who are Broncos fans?

I've been subtly trying to provoke them into a cordial discussion but they are not biting.

In 2013 they were relentless

I've only got one around here, thank god. He predicted we'd play each other again after the L we took in the regular season. No crickets with him. Can't get em to shut up.

adster124 · Jan 20, 2016

The pats should win easily. They should. But at Denver is a weird spot. The pats were in control 21-7 through the first three quarters with no lewis, they weren't using j. white, no amendola, no edleman, and lost gronk for ot. The o-line is healthy and played well vs the chiefs d-lime (albeit j. houston was banged up). Edleman and amendola are back and hopefully gronk stays healthy for the full game. Talib or harris might shut down amendola but theyll struggle to stop edleman since he's at a whole other level. Bill is smart so he'll have the defense crowd the middle of the field to force peyton to consistently throw outside the numbers even though Peyton struggles to throw with velocity on those type of throws. The broncos don't have a tight end like as good as julius thomas (vernon davis sucks now) that can present mismatch problems for the pats linebackers and safeties. They won't have the corners like butler and ryan off from the receivers the way pittsburgh did so as a result, peyton won't be able to consistently get away will wobbly slow passes as completions to the outside like he did against the squeelers.

The Brandon Five · Jan 20, 2016

adster124 said:
The pats should win easily. They should. But at Denver is a weird spot. The pats were in control 21-7 through the first three quarters with no lewis, they weren't using j. white, no amendola, no edleman, and lost gronk for ot. The o-line is healthy and played well vs the chiefs d-lime (albeit j. houston was banged up). Edleman and amendola are back and hopefully gronk stays healthy for the full game. Talib or harris might shut down amendola but theyll struggle to stop edleman since he's at a whole other level. Bill is smart so he'll have the defense crowd the middle of the field to force peyton to consistently throw outside the numbers even though Peyton struggles to throw with velocity on those type of throws. The broncos don't have a tight end like as good as julius thomas (vernon davis sucks now) that can present mismatch problems for the pats linebackers and safeties. They won't have the corners like butler and ryan off from the receivers the way pittsburgh did so as a result, peyton won't be able to consistently get away will wobbly slow passes as completions to the outside like he did against the squeelers.

I am still amazed that Dontari Poe wound up with zero tackles.

PP2 · Jan 20, 2016

Whitt25 said:
3. NFL really wants Manning to go to another Super Bowl and win, because Father Time is now his roommate.

Ain't his roommate anymore- it's his daddy now.

Bradyking12 · Jan 20, 2016

We will be fine, this game is no different then the week leading up to the KC game all worrys everything working out in the end.

adster124 · Jan 20, 2016

The Brandon Five said:
I am still amazed that Dontari Poe wound up with zero tackles.

The o line was good. If they can do that along with brady getting the ball out of his hands quickly then I dont how Denver will stand a chance.

RobertWeathers · Jan 20, 2016

Whitt25 said:
I've only got one around here, thank god. He predicted we'd play each other again after the L we took in the regular season. No crickets with him. Can't get em to shut up.

I've got a bunch of buddies at Time Warner Cable and Level3 out there and they are being waaaay to nice.

My suspicion is that Sb 49 win + JE11 + DA + Collins + Gronk - a good Manning = Impending Doom.

PP2 · Jan 20, 2016

JarOfMayo51 · Jan 20, 2016

Its funny how things change... back in 2004 in the AFCCG, Belichick said he didn't care about giving up running yards to Edgerin James because it was better than Manning going thru the air.. but fast forward to 2016 and now its the opposite approach... shut down the run game of the Broncos and force the ball into Manning's hand.. then our defense has an immobile target to get after and won't sneak away ala Alex Smith... and a secondary that plays really well together and will most likely get some opportunities to make a play on a poorly/underthrown ball by Manning

The Broncos are a legitimate opponent and I'm pretty concerned about Ward and the secondaries plans for Gronks knee, since they've been obvious about hunting it for 3 years now... but I think with the offense clicking, they'll be able to exploit Denver's defense in more ways than they did last time they met and take home a win

TBR · Jan 20, 2016

robertweathers said:
Anyone else see the evidence of the "BSPN Excuse-making Machine" fully operational?
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Ridiculous.

The Pats actually finished the league with the most drops, if I'm not mistaken. Lol @ them cherry picking the "from weeks 9-17" stat. Did he even play during that time? Like 2 games at most?

Also, the Pats definitely had 6 drops against the Jets at Gillette this year (Edelman dropped a TD, most articles out there have LaFell dropping 5-6)

glm · Jan 20, 2016

Denver will win bc they stopped Brady in 2013. Sure, Brady didnt have Gronk or DA... But he had 3 better RB and a better OL.

Oh, and we stopped Brady that day with our JV defense... Sly and Malik were young backups then....

We didnt have Talib, Harris, Ward, or Stewart in the secondary... We didnt have Von Miller or D-Ware... Or Marshall... Or Smith... Or Walker... Or Roby... or Ray... Or Barrett.

Instead, we had Ayers and Phillips... Pot Roast... Mike Adams and Duke I. We had Tony Carter.

Look what we did to NE with that defense. All this talk anout NE getting Gronk for this game... Lol... Great... We got a brand new defense... Basically... Trevathon is the only player we had that day

Statistics don't lie and that is why Denver wins this game, sorry NE

My brain has an owie

RobertWeathers · Jan 20, 2016

TBR said:
Ridiculous.

The Pats actually finished the league with the most drops, if I'm not mistaken. Lol @ them cherry picking the "from weeks 9-17" stat. Did he even play during that time? Like 2 games at most?

Also, the Pats definitely had 6 drops against the Jets at Gillette this year (Edelman dropped a TD, most articles out there have LaFell dropping 5-6)

Pats finished 6th in drop %.....Stinkos finished 13th.

Team Dropped Passes: 2015 NFL Season

#protectpeyton

FreeCourtroomBrady · Jan 20, 2016

Deus Irae said:
Osweiller buckles under pressure.

Maybe that's why his knee hurts.

Sorry, couldn't avoid a knee slapping joke.

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