Football Outsiders' Preview (note Red Zone stats)

[BelichickFan]

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2007/01/19/ramblings/game-previews/4857/

Best preview you'll find (even though they're picking Indy).

Note their red zone rankings :

Patriot offense 2nd vs. Indy defense 29th
Indy offense 7th vs. Patriot defense 3rd.

I like those red zone stats A LOT.

 

[BradfordPatsFan]

Stats mean NOTHING. This is Peyton's time.

 

[CaffeineMan]

In those stats lie my greatest hope for this game, which I think will be close:

- Pats defense avoids giving up big plays outside the red zone.
- Pats defense holds them to FG's or stone them inside the red zone.
- Pats score TD's in their red zone appearances.
- Pats win a close one!

Of course, the preferred result is that they actually succeed in rattling Manning badly and Brady rediscovers his lost accuracy and the Pats win comfortably!
:singing:

But I can't force myself to be that optimistic.

 

[Kdo5]

Didnt the Colts get some early TD passes inside our redzone last time...

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

Didnt the Colts get some early TD passes inside our redzone last time...

The Colts got about 5-6 pass interference calls(illegal contact, holding, etc) to help them.

You're not gonna see that junk tomorrow.