01-09-2022, 10:08 PM
(01-09-2022, 07:00 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Raiders win - We play Raiders
Chargers win - We play New England
Tie - We play New England
This is official now. Raiders/Chargers decides who we play, between Raiders and Pats.
(01-09-2022, 08:35 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: The Pats have some major things going for them.
(1) They use their tight ends a lot, and we suck at covering tight ends.
(2) Belicheck is great at coming up with game plans to shut teams down and exploit their weaknesses.
(3) Our Oline is our weakness and Belicheck will likely generate tons of pressure and shut our run game down.
(4) They are great at offensive game planning and keeping teams off balance with a balanced run/pass offense. At times we've gotten run over this year, and looked very vanilla on 3rd down defensively.
This is a tough matchup with the potential to be thoroughly outcoached. This would be a big win. The Pats aren't one and done very often. We are (or have been in the past). This would be a huge win for our program. A loss would be a huge let down, but not necessarily reason to panic.
I'd like to see us beat the best if we are to advance. Excited for next week, but trying not to get my hopes up like the last playoff game. This could very easily be a loss.
They've lost in the WC round 3 times since 2009, but rarely do they ever play on the road. No Brady, and they still lack at WR, which is why Brady lost his last WC in NE. We covered the best TE in the league (Kelce), so why are we sweating NE so much?
(01-09-2022, 08:43 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Man...i think my head is going to explode if i see one more person talk about Ben gutting anyone. He hasn't broken 200 yds passing in 4 games and his highest rating was 80.1
He hasn't even been able to reach 6 YPA in those 4 games.
He had one of the ugliest statlines I've ever seen a couple weeks ago.
127 yards on 46 attempts.
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