Predict the Score Contest, AFC Championship NE@DEN

Patriots: 30

Denver: 27

Pats 35 - Bronkosaurs 19

Good guys come out and play smart ball control patriot football with Brady in shotgun spread and take the 4-6 yard chunk plays that are there against the one real weakness of the Denver D the linebackers. Someone of eldeman amendola gronk or white WILL be open. Brady just needs to find and hit the open guy and there is no one better at that then Brady. They open a comfortable lead as manning gets sacked a bunch but by the 4th the defense is gassed and let's the donkeys back into the game with the help of some shady reffing. On a final make or break drive the d comes up with a play to seal it
Pats 27
Broncos 23

Pats 31
Broncos 19

Patriots 24

Broncos 13

Tom's Team 34
Trash talkers 17

Pats 24 - 16

Predicted a win last time and got a loss...feeling inclined to pick against us this time but my brain just tells me things will be different with Edelman and Amendola.

27-24, Patriots.

The G.O.A.T. 31

MEGA Forehead 23

Patriots 59
HGH cheapshot artists 20

HGH leads the donkeys to 2 Field goals. Gostkowski kicks a 65 yard FG with no time left at half after HGH fumbles the ball after Chandler Jones delivers a diabolical sack reminscent of his first sack. HGH is benched.

Brock Osweiler leads the donkeys to 2 touchdowns with flukey deep catches like the first game. Only this time the Patriots respond each time. Von Miller throws a tamper tantrum as he's unable to sack Brady in 1 second. He attempts to go after Brady's knees but misses as Brady steps up in the pocket and slams his head straight into blitzing TJ Ward's head at the end of the game. Neither of them remember what happened and claims it's not possible that they were beaten and that we cheated. The fuhrer launches a 25 million dollar investigation into Brady stepping up in the pocket illegally.

Patriots 35

Whiny Fing Dinks 17 (Including two garbage time TD's)

Pats: 43
Broncos: 8

24-17 Pats

Pats 24
Donks 21

Pats 31

Broncos 21

Pats 31
Donk 24

Patriots 27
Denver 16

Predictions

Brady has a solid game with 2 TDs 1 Int 300 yards going 30/45. 1 TD to Gronk and 1 TD to Edelman. The Patriots get down inside the 5 and Jackson runs in a TD. They are helped by a Peyton Int that puts the on a short field on which they get a touchdown and from that point on have complete control of the game and never get up the 2 score lead. Brady's int is probably on Denver's side of the field and does not turn into a TD but with all the bounces the Pats got last game they are due for a bad break this one.

The run game is mostly ignored though.

Manning has a pretty decent game for him.. 25/40 280 yards 1 TD 1 Int. I do think he will hit a deep pass somewhere (probably against Ryan) and one of his WRs will break one for a TD. He does well converting on 3rd but not well enough. to sustain most drives and the ones he does mostly failed when in the red zone.

The Denver running game is good and breaks a few decent ones but is generally held to about 100 yards on 25 carries or so and the team needs to put more on Manning than they would like. He int will be a back breaker that probably puts the ball inside FG range to start.

Both defenses show up and play well the Denver D has no answer for Edelman and James White breaks out this game on the LBs. Gronk will be fairly silent in comparison to last game but still important in taking away 2 guys and he does get his TD. The Denver D pass rush is fairly effect and the Pats OL has a down game compared to the last which stalls a few drives but unlike KC they don't convert as many 3rd downs so the Pats have more chances to score.

The Patriots defense is solid everywhere and Chung continues his excellent play shutting down the TEs. Butler does well but Ryan gets picked on a bit by DT. However with the containment of the run game and bring up a lot of 3rd downs the Pats are able to get a high % of stops. The playes who will stick out the most are Chung, Butler and Nink who continues his momentum from last game and completely shuts down his side as far as running goes. Of course Collins/Hightower do well as expected.

NWE 34 Den 17

Pats 35-21.

The score is 28-21 in the final 2-5 minutes of the 4th quarter. The Broncos start a drive from their own 10 yard line and move up the field at will. Anderson breaks out for a big 45 yard gain. They keep moving, and moving, until they are down to our 10 yard line. It's 3rd and 3... Manning throws for the end zone, and in typical Peyton Manning fashion, he is picked off and it is returned for a game sealing touchdown.

Pats 27
Broncos 19