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One word: Indianapolis Colts..............oops! LOL

Meh. You're entitled to your opinion, I suppose...

And you're entitled to support your favorite team...



At least you claim to be a Cubs fan.

I'm talking too much...

one injury to tom brady and they're cooked

One injury to Peyton Manning and Indy is cooked.
One injury to Brett Favre and Pack is cooked.
One injury to Romo and Dallas is cooked.
One injury to Eli Manning and Giants are cooked.

Shall I go on? Why state the obvious ?

Indy and the Pats each have three possible losses on their schedule.

1. The most obvious and enevitable - one will lose when they play.
2. Indy will have a tough game with the Jags, especially if the Jags come in healthy.
3. Indy has 3 physical games right before they travel to San Diego - S.D. will pose a big hurdle at home for Indy.
4. The Pats play the Ravens in Baltimore in December. Regardless of the rRvens record at that time, Baltimore will be sky high to knock off the Pats.
5. If the Pats have locked up home field advantage, then their last game with the Giants will be a test, especially if NY is fighting for a playoff spot.

The Pats will get exposed against the STEELERS!!! (or colts)

Lets think about this. The weather will be cold and snowy taking the passing attack out of the game. The Pats have established little to know running game. Who do you think is going to better control the game Willie Parker or Maroney? Come on now.

Im not saying the only possibilty is the Steelers. Any given Sunday. The Pats will face a huge struggle when Brady litterally cant pass. The snow will be way too heavy to even attempt.

Too early to decide this since they have had a cupcake schedule in the pass defense area. So far Brady has played 5 of the bottom 6 ranked pass defenses.
coming into last Sunday the Steelers were ranked 1st in points per game allowed, 2nd in total yards allowed, 2nd in rush defense and 4th in the pass. So, yes I think the Steelers will tear them down.

The Pats stats are misleading, so dont look them up. They run the score up.
They were up 10 with 51 seconds left in the 4th quarter and on 4th down they threw for the end-zone? PADDING STATS!
Peyton is the best QB PERIOD!

Take away the pass from the Pats and they got NOTHING
Im going to take this piece by piece.

"But they have to be able to stop the run ."

Dude, no one runs on the Steelers. NO ONE! We have one of the best rush defenses in the league. Ranked 3rd in yards given up per game with 75.5.

"and the defensive backs have to cover Randy Moss,Wes Welker,Ben Watson and Donte Stallworth."

No, acctually we will have to stop Brady. And, we are getting a LOT of help with the weather conditions. Take Brady out of the game, and you beat the Pats. My main argument is whether it will snow hard enough to throw off Brady. Usually the heavy weather affects it. Take this too, Brady has played 5 of the bottom 6 pass defenses in the league and from here on out he plays the Ravens and Steelers. It only gets tougher.

"but Lawyrence Maroney is going to tear up the defense."

Maroney sucks. Reason why the Pats dont run; they cant. Simple as that. Until they prove that they can controll the game with both the RUSH and the PASS, they are'nt going any where.

"The Pats also have a great defense,it will be a close game but the Pats will come out on top."

True, the Pats have a great defense, but look at who theyve played so far.
Jets
Chargers
Bil Bills
Bengals
Browns
Cowboys
Dolphins
The only real O they have played this year, they gave up 27 points.

Wait, who are you quoting, ef?

I didn't say any of that.

I know I took that from my last TD. Sorry about that.

denver is the only team that can stop them. haha, thats my bias. but chrono is right

Well, DJ, I said in my first argument that I don't think the Pats will go undefeated. I thought I made it clear enough that "will not be stopped" meant that no one would stop them from the ultimate goal: a Super Bowl victory.

Maybe I should have read that.

efbasketball5, snow improves the game for passing. It doesn't allow the team to throw the ball down the field, but it does benefit a short passing attack. What happens is that the defensive backs start to slip and they can't stay with the wide receivers on the quick ins, quick outs, quick slants, etc. As we have seen, the Patriots can throw the ball downfield as well as they throw the ball short. Another thing, contrary to popular belief, the Patriots can run the ball too and Josh McDaniels stays balanced in his playcalling. They're pass to run ratio is generally 50-50, the one exception was when the Patriots played Dallas.

I think you can scratch Washington off the lost of teams possibly beating the Pats

miamis gona pull the upset

Also, efbasketball5, you said the Patriots defense hasn't really played any good offenses, not true. They've played Dallas, Cleveland, and the Chargers. They gave up 27 to Dallas, 7 of which came off a defensive score, they gave up 17 to Cleveland, and they gave up 14 to the Chargers.

The team that will stop the Patriots will be the Colts. Let's remember the Colts are the defending Super Bowl champions. They have not lost a game since Week 16 of last year against the Texans. And let's not forget the Colts have won the last 3 meetings agaisnt the Patriots including last year's AFC Championship game in Indianapolis. And one more thing, in my own opinion, the Colts are the only team that can stood toe to toe with the Patriots.

38-0 against one of the best teams in the NFC right now...Tom Brady's picked apart the No.1 pass defense in the league going into this game...they really do look unstoppable.