The Eagles last season had the 3rd best scoring offense in the league and were only one point behind the Patriots for 2nd in the league. I guess juggernaut may mean league’s best scoring offense in which case I think you have to go back to 2013 Broncos.
Was my allusion to the Steelers not obvious? Or are you too young to remember the 2001 playoffs? (That’s not a dig, and this could easily be in the Celebrating What Is thread, but’s it’s possible that one could be a serious, regular poster here at SOSH and still be young enough not to remember that team.)
It will certainly quiet the crowd. One of the things Pats fans have been accused of over the years is not making enough noise, but as someone who has been in the stadium hundreds of times, I can tell you a big reason is because when it gets cold, people wear gloves, and when you clap with gloves on, it's like a tree falling in the forest. Clapping is a big part of crowds making noise. The colder the better next week. Just gotta make sure someone remembers to pack Brady's SCUBA suit for him.
I certainly remember it, I was a senior in college but I was living in dc so that’s an anecdote that I wasn’t aware of as I wasn’t immersed in local media. Apologies.
Running the football and methodical drives will be paramount this week. They had a ton of success in the running game last time.
If they aren’t in zone, there won’t be as many holes forMahomes to throw off the RPOs. Hopefully Wise will be back because he’s done a good job setting the edge on his side.
All 3 of those games for the Patriots were at home where their defense has been light years better. I expect the Patriots defense to be a complete dumpster fire next week. The key will be getting a turnover or two and a couple red zone stops, but I don't expect more than 1 or 2 punts by KC. They will simply need to not blow their couple chances at INTs....Mahomes will likely have a couple that get away and they can't drop them.
i wish.
Yeah, that one sucked.
Max Kellerman is proof that an Ivy League education doesn't mean that you can't be on TV and demonstrate that you are a moron on a daily basis.
The 2001 Steelers turned in a dominant performance against the defending champion Ravens in the divisional round, while the Pats snuck past the Raiders in the “tuck rule” game. Goes to show the folly of drawing sweeping conclusions based on a single week’s games. Neither the Pats nor the Chiefs gets to bottle this week’s dominance and serve it up next week.
I tend to agree. The Pats absolutely can win but I don’t think it’s particularly likely given what we’ve seen in road games this year. They just haven’t executed very well and this upcoming game will be in a much tougher environment.
What does not particularly likely mean? A Bill Belichick team is very likely to be well positioned to compete in this game. They are on the road and 3 point underdogs. They are almost just as likely to win as they are to lose.
Yep.
I don't think it's straight "we're definitely gonna win" confidence. It's that the last 2 games they have played probably the 2 most complete games of the season. And are healthy.
A week from now we may be talking about how a 70-yard, multi-lateral TD with time expired cost the Pats a trip to the Super Bowl.
Or maybe we'll be talking about the fact that the Patriots could win 3 Super Bowls in 5 years, 13 years after they won 3 Super Bowls in 4 years.
This team went 3-5 on the road this year with 2 of those wins coming against the Jets and Bills. They just haven't played well on the road this year. Now they're facing the #1 team in the conference with the best QB in the league in an even tougher environment. For whatever reason, they have not been good on the road this year. I obviously hope that changes on Sunday.
I hear you, but both games were at home. I don't know why they struggled so badly on the road this year but they did, hopefully they can figure out why between now and Sunday. I'm not saying they can't win, but I'm not expecting it.
I guess its just a question of what inference do we draw from their road record this year. Many of the key players (and obviously, coaches) are the same as the last few years and this team went 15-1 on the road over the course of 2016-17.
I think this position is fair. To be clear, I think the Pats are certainly very capable of a 2001/2004 AFCCG performance. How they did in Jacksonville, Detroit, Tennessee earlier in the year is probably less relevant than how the team has looked over the past few games, which is quite good. I'm not sure if they're "better" without Josh Gordon on offense but the unit as a whole appears to be more cohesive now with him gone. On offense, I think they've found their identity a bit and the defense has looked much better lately, mostly because the front 7 is generating consistent pressure. The secondary has been pretty consistently good all year.
If they pull a repeat of the Pitt game and have a pile of presnap penalties, I'm going to lose it. Especially if its WR's false starting, which is inexcusable.
It's scheduled to be as low as -5 on Sunday in KC. I would imagine that would depress a lot of the crowd noise, as it's hard to clap when you're bundled up.
