PATRIOT64
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No longer do you see visiting teams fearing coming into Gillette,That is evidenced by the 4 games we have played at home thus far..The first game we were lucky to get out alive by beating Buffalo with a safety...The second game at home against Miami we won by 10 but the game was much closer than the score,Harrington looked like Dan Marino for much of the game and Wes Welker was having Hobbs for breakfast till the rest of the defense saved the day with some crucial solid play to save victory....The last 2 games were simply putrid and we were overmatched and the scores could have been more lopsided than they actually were.
It looks as if we will once again have a winning home record since the teams we play for the rest of the season are creampuffs (except Chicago)
That brings up the question would you rather the team be in the playoffs at home against Denver,Indianapolis,San Diego or Baltimore or on the road where we dominated Minnesota,Buffalo,Cincinnati and the Jets-I know those teams are not that good but in truth they are all NFL teams and were at thier house where no matter how lousy a team is as the 4 teams we beat,ALL NFL teams are still tougher to beat in THEIR stadium (unless you are the Patriots who look to thrive when away this year)- Those games were all wins and we won by no less than 7 points...So it appears this team seems unprepared more so at home than on the road or simply just do not play as well..Sounds crazy but look at the games..Look at the scores...If this keeps up I say it might be an advantage for us is to be away in the AFC playoffs (of course that only matters if we win after the first divisional game which WILL be at home) - I don't care about what the cold weather or whatever it is when winter arrives NFL teams get ready for all weather related elements,thats what they get paid for.
This years version of the Patriots can be titled as 'Road Warriors' and agree or not I say we can still win even with losing the top seed home field advantage which appears to me to be an apparent irrelevant thing with the 2006 Patriots,we can win anywhere,but even better chances to on the road thus far where we remain undefeated.