Tom Brady and the Patriots

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The Patriots rank first in the NFL in six team categories:
lowest percentage of passes intercepted, first downs per game, third-down efficiency, yards per game,
points per game, and points per game differential.

After gaining 23 first downs against the Jaguars, the Patriots are at 416 for the season, which ties the
2011 Saints for the most in a season. The first one against Miami Sunday will give the Patriots the record.

If he throws three touchdown passes against the Dolphins, Tom Brady will become the first quarterback in
league history with 35 touchdown passes in four seasons. Brady had 50 scoring tosses in 2007, 36 in 2010,
and 39 last season. Brett Favre (38 in 1995, 39 in 1996, and 35 in 1997) is the only other player with three
seasons of at least 35 touchdown passes.

(today's globe)

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pates finish the regular season with a +226 point differential...

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@Region Philbis,

Go Patsies.

They get a bye week along with Broncos, then they face them in Denver, is that correct? Broncos are #1 seed.

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@Ragman,

I would rather the Patriots face Houston in Foxboro. It could happen

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@maxdancona,

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The Patriots will next take the field on the weekend of Jan. 12-13, and will play the highest remaining seed
between the two winners from the wild-card weekend.

That means they will host either Houston, Baltimore or Indianapolis

(espn)

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@Region Philbis,

Thanks for that correction.

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@Ragman,

eventually, we'd be playing the broncos @ mile high...

R(if we get that far... assume they will)P

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@Region Philbis,

I think Houston can beat Denver.

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@maxdancona,

they are staggering into the playoffs, while denver has won 11 straight.

that said, anything can (and will) happen in the NFL...

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@Region Philbis,

Let me put it this way. When Houston beats Denver, you heard it from me first.

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@Region Philbis,

Region Philbis wrote:

eventually, we'd be playing the broncos @ mile high...

R(if we get that far... assume they will)P

I really think the Pats have as much reason for optimism as the Broncos have.

Both our tight-ends are back, which is a real key to our offense working. Gronkowski's play should improve with each game we survive.

Denver, on its win streak, hasn't really played anyone except Cincinnati and Baltimore, and both those teams were slumping when Denver played them.

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@Region Philbis,

Ding Ding Ding

I might add Annoyed to that.

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funny stuff on twitter leading up to sunday's game...

texans RB arian foster made this his twitter avatar:

http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x336/RegionPhilbis/AFoster-twitter_zpse36dad25.jpg

it's an excerpt from a dan shaughnessy globe article from last sunday...

http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x336/RegionPhilbis/AFoster-tweet_zps66ff78f9.jpg

http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x336/RegionPhilbis/DShaughnessy-tweet_zps137e7e12.jpg

shaughnessy is known for hyperbole, and has rubbed some people (notable curt schilling) the wrong way in the past...

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@Region Philbis,

A fella has gotta make a buck. Good ole Dan, as do most sports-writer/talking heads, makes a buck by stirring the pot. Sure as hell no one is cheering Dan's name at any football game. He isn't trying to win a Pulitzer prize for his journalism.

However, if career media guys like Dan can be the center of something controversial, it increases the odds that people in droves will look for his column or his talking head on shows on ESPN. ESPN loves to stir the pot for the hell of it (or to boost ratings). ESPN's Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith have made a career of fanning flames with inflammatory comments on a daily basis.

When these go too far overboard on occasion (witness the furor about 2 weeks ago over Rob Parker for his on-air criticism of RG III for not being 'black' enough), they get fired or put out in the corn field for awhile. Meanwhile, I never caught ESPN's public apology for not censoring it before it hit the live mike in the first place.

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Too bad he's mostly right. And I say that as a huge Texans fan - they just haven't showed up against major teams this year. They struggled last week against a team that's nowhere near as good as New England or Denver.

Frankly the biggest problem is their offensive line, they don't do a very good job opening up holes for Foster to run through. He gets a pretty good stat line every week, but only because he carries 30 times. I don't have much hope for a Houston victory this weekend, unless they can somehow get on top of NE early.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

... and there'a graveyard of broken bodies of teams that have tried to get up on top of NE and Brady early in a game. It's just not going to happen (sorry to tell you Houston fans) with this year's Texan team. QB Schaub is not consistant enough of a play-maker...and...just not enough of a deep-threat when they're down by 2 or 3 scores. Their offense is just not varied enough to win against a very talented team that does have the balance.

Witness the previous time they played them. What was it like 42-10 at the end and 20-0 at the half? Houston: we have a problem!

However, when and if the Pats meet Denver they'll have their hands fuller while flying west to squeak by Peyton and the solid-defense of the Broncos in the mile-high thin air.

Peyton has a personal score to settle about his legacy. He didn't endure 4 neck operations and the comeback-of-the-decade just to go down in flames to the one man (and team) that has stood in his way so many others times.

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in today's globe, Shaughnessy wrote:

As the ultimate sign of respect, I plan to change my column avatar to an image of Arian Foster.

(full article)

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@Ragman,

One thing I will say, though - it's a LOT harder to beat a team twice in a season, than it is to do once. The defensive coordinators for the losing team generally figure out a bunch of what confused them before, and the team who won the first time tends to get a bit cocky.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

DC wade phillips has his work cut out for him...

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