as a proponent of getting the lowest draft pick available (so we can trade down to 6th and give it to the Giants for a bag) I worry about this game. It has a lot of bad elements for this team. Teams travelling from the west coast to the east coast usually have problems. And while it's going to be in the high 30's, that's still cold for a southern Cal team coming to NE. Then you add how easy it will be to overlook us and you are likely going to get a game that will be relatively close.
It hasn't been talked about much, but we are CONSTANTLY losing the TO battle and it has cost us a few games. But maybe this is the week where a deflected pass finds its way into OUR hands instead of hitting the ground, or fumbling and NOT recovering their own fumble, I can see us winning this game. Check out the teams who have all clinched PO berths. THEY are the teams who are consistently winning the TO battle. I'm not sure of the stats, but I can't think of a game this year when we won that particular battle.
ALL of our good teams were at the top of the league in the plus/minus of that particular stat.