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The Superbowl will be a pocket passer versus a scrambler.
And old vs young, passing the torch, etc.
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I would be cautious in judging Denver by the last few games simply because, even though many Pats fans constantly refuse to admit it, our offense is pretty damn good. I don't care who it was against, because they carried on the stats throughout the season. Prolonged offensive success doesn't just disappear. Opponents can game plan successfully to minimize it, and that's when they beat the Broncos, but to discount their offense would be setting yourself up for a disappointment.
And old vs young, passing the torch, etc.
So on espn boston patriots blog, there is a link to a video with the following description:
Peyton Manning talks about Denver's win against San Diego in the divisional round and the adversity the Broncos have overcome this season.
I'm not sure what kind of adversity they are referring to?
Denver's offense is really good, but the greatest of all time?
Who did the 2007 Patriots play when they went undefeated up until the Superbowl? What defenses did we shatter offensive records against?
Well, off the top of my head, there was the Jets, the Steelers, the Ravens, the Giants, the Colts. All wins for the Patriots.
Elite defenses being destroyed in record setting fashion.
Now compare this to the 2013 Broncos, who have been stat-padding against NOBODIES while LOSING to the good teams (the play off teams).
So you have a good offense. When people start calling it the best of all time, because you were throwing six touchdown passes against teams that have no idea how to play defense, who won't sniff a play off game for years, well....
You can see why Patriot fans aren't impressed.
You've had the highest offensive production in NFL history (with offensive happy rules), but the greatest offense ever?
"LOL"
'Bout the only way I can respond.
Our defense already stopped your offense. You ran for 280 yards, but did you run for touchdowns? No. You scored most of your points from defensive plays that followed a string of unfortunate turn overs not likely to repeat themselves.
Peyton, with all his offensive weapons, threw for about 150 yards, with 1 INT or 2?
It's just hard for me to be afraid.
I'm not saying anything is a foregone conclusion.
I'm just saying I'm honestly not worried.
Maybe your team will give me reason to after the game starts, but right now I feel pretty good. Gronk or no Gronk.
Sure, statistically the greatest of all time, but I would agree with you that it's not the scariest offense of all time. No argument there at all, and I'd probably put us at about 5 (yes, BEHIND the Pats of '07, greatest show on turf, etc.)
What makes us dangerous though is that our offense really doesn't have a weak point to try to focus on. If you only focus on stopping our running game, we'll just pass. If you focus on eliminating our top two wideouts, we'll throw to Decker or Julius Thomas. We've ran the ball very effectively this season, and Montee Ball has looked particularly strong towards the end of the season, giving us a true dual-back threat. The O-Line has it's moments where it's played VERY well (Peyton was barely touched tonight) and then it has it's moments where it looks beatable.
My point is, a successful plan of attack against us could stop us on a number of drives, but it gets hard to cover everyone all the time, and while I could certainly see you holding us under our seasonal averages (I would expect that, in fact), there's definitely cause for some fear of our offense. Yes, the point totals are exaggerated. Yes, we played a lot of bad defenses. But...we have 3 great WRs, a competent enough 4th WR who you can't just leave alone, an above-average receiving tight end, a respectable running game, and I like that Manning guy as our QB.
But really, I'm just trying to stress you out because I'll be absolutely devastated if we lose and I want you all to be worrying about this game too.
I'll put a prediction out there...Denver 27, New England 24. I think both teams try to establish the pass first, then move back towards the run as the game goes on, and the time of possession per drive drags out long enough that neither team gets TOO many possessions, making them all count. Denver kicks a FG with a minute left, Brady gets to the 50 with 20 seconds left...everyone's pissing themselves, but the game ends on a sack.
Off topic, I'm probably going to miss the first half of the game because of church lol. It starts at 1 pm mountain time, service is not done usually until 1:30 or 2.
On topic, I feel really confident that the patriots can win this game, have some faith people!! You just have to believe.
More like we celebrate Brady's sixth AFC Championship in your stadium and send our vast army of rookies and no-names to go out and dance on your logo before the cameras cut.
Off topic, I'm probably going to miss the first half of the game because of church lol. It starts at 1 pm mountain time, service is not done usually until 1:30 or 2.
Welker did NOT look like himself today...except for the TD...he just looked off
You can call bs all you want. You have no facts or logic just unsupported suppositions. The effects take days? Absolute nonsense. In days the body is already making more hemoglobin to make up for the lack of oxygen. That's why mountain climbers acclimate. They climb a couple thousand feet and wait for their bodies to adjust. That's how people climb everest or k2. According to you they should just go straight up as they wouldn't feel the effects for "a few days".
Off topic, I'm probably going to miss the first half of the game because of church lol. It starts at 1 pm mountain time, service is not done usually until 1:30 or 2.
On topic, I feel really confident that the patriots can win this game, have some faith people!! You just have to believe.