Brady undefeated in domes......

[PATRIOT64]

Personally I think we lose this game as no matter what the players and coaches say about its 'just another game' and its 'one week at a time',The hidden fact remains that we can't help but look ahead to next weeks game against Indy which is the MOST important game remaining on the schedule for playoff position,if we don't win that game we will be hard pressed to get a top 2 seed spot,so I think we will be a bit less emotional than the past several weeks on this monday night,even though every win enhances your chances of best conference record,I just can't see a dominating performance,If we do get lucky with some big plays we can eek out a 1-3 point win but I think its gonna take at least 2 turnovers in our favor to win this one IMO​

To go against my prediction (BTW-I do hope I am wrong and we do win) - I have found that all odds are actually FOR US TO WIN THIS GAME WITH IT BEING PLAYED IN A DOME AND ON ARTIFICIAL SURFACE AND HERE'S WHY.....​

Tom Brady has NEVER lost in a dome in his NFL Career, He is 9-0 as starting Pats QB​

The Patriots have scored AT LEAST 31 POINTS in each of its past 4 games in domes so a good BET with your local bookie for the OVER if you go by these past stats.​

The last time the Patriots lost in a dome was on Thanksgiving Day 2000 to Detroit - thats 6 years ago-wow!​

The Patriots also have won 2 or their 3 SB Championships in Domes (Reliant Stadium in Houston and Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans)​

The Patriots are an unbelievable 18-1 on Artificial turf in the last 19 games!​

Tom Brady has thrown 35 TDs and just 15 Ints in Domes in his career.​

All these overwhelming stats show that I should be wrong about my prediction of this game and I truly hope so-those past stats are so one sided for the Patriots that it is very hard to ignore,but I still keep my prediction of Vikings 27 Patriots 14...so we will see....​

 

[TruthSeeker]

Personally I think we lose this game as no matter what the players and coaches say about its 'just another game' and its 'one week at a time',The hidden fact remains that we can't help but look ahead to next weeks game against Indy...
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I couldn't disagree more - not about losing the game, but about losing the game because the Patriots coaches and players are looking ahead to Indy.

Please, cite me just 1 game in the past 5 years - win or loss - where the Patriots were guilty as a team of looking ahead. I can't think of one. However, I can think of this charge being leveled at them multiple times every season.

The players and coaches of this team have gotten it right - the most important game is the next one. They not only say it; they believe it. The reason that they believe it is because it's true. They know what can/will happen if they don't focus on the upcoming game. The coaches preach it to them all the time. They see it happening to other teams. It's discussed in the media and by fans.

Fans project their thoughts and beliefs onto their teams all the time. Often this is warranted; sometimes it's not. This is one of those traps that I have never seen a BB team fall into. And I continue to believe that it is not one that they will fall into right up until (and perhaps even beyond) when they actually do fall into it. They know about the trap and they work incredibly hard to avoid it - not just by getting up to the edge of the trap, spotting it and then stepping around it, but rather by taking an entirely different trail taking the trap "out of play" (as they like to say in golf). Fans, on the other hand, fall into this trap all the time and project the trap onto the team.

I've never seen a group of athletes that believes their coach to the extent that the Patriots believe BB. They get to NE and it seems everyone drinks the Kool-aid. Rookies learn not to speak. Seymour gives a 10 minute interview about his injury and we know no more about what happened than before the interview started. The team focuses each week on what they need to do to play better and how to exploit the other team's weaknesses. You hear it every week in the post-game press conferences and from the team leaders (BB and TB, in particular). How can you not believe that this is truly what they are thinking? They know that their goal this week is to prepare to defeat the Vikings in Minnesota and I don't for a minute believe that anyone's focus this week is the Colts. There are far too many faults each individual player has to correct to worry about who they're playing some other week of the season.

I just don't see it happening.​

 

[SackMeIfYouCan]

Tom Brady has NEVER lost in a dome in his NFL Career, He is 9-0 as starting Pats QB


I keep reading this stat...
and it sucks...
I dont like it.

 

[Ice Cold Bruschi]

What the hell are the Krafts waiting for then? Bulldoze Gillette and build a dome for christs sake hahah!

 

[Lansdowne]

Brady was also undefeated in playoff games until the last one. This Vikings team will likely be among the toughest dome games Brady will play in his career. We'll have to see how it goes, but I'm reluctant to declare this an instant W just because of previous trends.

 

[Hok]

The last time the Patriots lost in a dome was on Thanksgiving Day 2000 to Detroit - thats 6 years ago-wow!

We won that game.

 

[Patriots4Ever]

This is quite a statistic.Im hoping we can pull off the win this week.It should be a pretty explosive Offensive showing

 

[Fanfrom1960]

Personally I think we lose this game as no matter what the players and coaches say about its 'just another game' and its 'one week at a time',The hidden fact remains that we can't help but look ahead to next weeks game against Indy which is the MOST important game remaining on the schedule for playoff position..​

Not that I expect them to win every game, but I would never predict that the Patriots lose a game. Well, that would apply to this generation team, but not to a Rod Rust one, e.g. Bad Karma, bad Mojo, and would a small part of me root against them so I could say I was right? Now, the game after Indy, assuming the Patriots win that game, could see a letdown. Jets at N.E., should be a win though.

 

[Lansdowne]

We won that game.

Nope, we lost that game. It was a blowout defeat, and it was also Brady's first action in the NFL. That was in 2000. In 2002, we won that game.