Pats vs Texans: The buildup
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They are an incredibly awful team and 16 points is a comically large amount. Basically, it's a Cleveland Browns kind of line. Patriots would have to mess up 10 different things to lose this game.
It's about as easy a playoff game as we could have hoped for. I actually think the Texans are worse than Miami, or at least not that much better.
Shit can happen but it would take an epic series of Patriot fuck ups for the AFC title game to be anywhere other than in Foxboro in two weeks.
Shit can happen but it would take an epic series of Patriot fuck ups for the AFC title game to be anywhere other than in Foxboro in two weeks.
Sorry--I was kidding. Love these Divisional Round games against trash opponents at Gillette.
Of course, all week long this week they were calling for "< 1 inch" of snow in eastern Mass yesterday.
All week long, people will try to sell me on the fact that Houston has a very good defense, on how Ostelburgermystermysterburger is a good QB, any given Sunday, blah, blah, blah; sell it all you want, I'm not buying any of it.
They are pretty rare, so the are a break. Tebow is the holy grail of suck. But not all of these games are a piece of cake, in particular the game two years ago against the Ravens, that the Pats needed to do it all right to win.
The Ravens weren't trash. I'm thinking about Tebow's Broncos and the deflated Colts, in particular.
Deflated Colts was the Championship game. They did crush the Colts in a divisional game, too, but that wasn't the deflategate year.
These same teams in the same venue were pick 'em in the regular season. It's really amazing.
Is it really? They wouldn't have been anywhere near pick 'em with Brady in there in Week 3.
Two huge factors make the difference: Tom Brady and Brock Osweiler. Brady wasn't there and Osweiler hadn't been exposed as a fraud yet (though the cracks started to show in that game).
I don't want snow for this game. All things being neutral the pats are clearly the better team and should win this one going away. I would have complete faith in the pats handling the snow better then Houston but it's just one more uncontrollable variable. When you have the better team anything that introduces a degree of randomness is bad. I'd rather it be a calm night where the Texans can show up for their beating and then leave.
What the fuck is with the guy's hair behind him? It almost looks as if half of Bill's head was photoshopped in on top of the fat guy from Modern Family.Bill looks petrified...
Guys, I was watching TV and they told me it was the #1 defense and against a great offence, a classic battle!!!
Man, this is why you play through week 17 (unlike last year). What a difference in the 1 seed getting Houston and the 2 seed getting Pitt. I'm glad they finished strong this year.
Is this an unpopular opinion? Houston is a trash team, and any rooting for Miami I think was solely due to not having to play Pittsburgh in Championship weekend.
In the gamethread today the popular opinion seemed to be that Miami was the worst of all of the playoff teams.
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NFL Divisional Playoffs odds (updated 8:30 p.m. ET Sunday at Westgate): Saturday: Atlanta -4.5 vs. Seattle, over/under 51 New England -16 vs. Houston, over/under 45 Sunday: Kansas City -1.5 vs. Pittsburgh, over/under 45 Dallas -4 vs. Green Bay, over/under 51.5
NFL Divisional Playoffs odds (updated 8:30 p.m. ET Sunday at Westgate): Saturday: Atlanta -4.5 vs. Seattle, over/under 51 New England -16 vs. Houston, over/under 45 Sunday: Kansas City -1.5 vs. Pittsburgh, over/under 45 Dallas -4 vs. Green Bay, over/under 51.5
