'chinawildman said:
'stbugs said:
'chinawildman said:
Part of me just wants to say that the AFC isn't very good. I mean beating Broncos/Patriots/Manning/Brady "sounds" impressive, but when you peel back the layers...
1) The "impressive" 11 game win streak of the broncos featured only 2 opponents with winning records
2) Niners were decidedly waxing the Patriots 31-8 in Foxboro
3) For the past NINE seasons, the AFC champs were either the Colts, the Pats, or the Steelers. Manning took his show to Denver, Steelers were an unimpressive .500, and everybody's already talking about the demise of the Belichek/Brady dynasty. Is it because the Ravens are THAT good, or because these 3 just aren't that good anymore?
For #2, it was actually 31-3 and NE outscored SF 31-10 the rest of the game. SF got a lot of nice plays on D and special teams to go up by 28. I watched the game and out of SF's 6 fumbles, they only lost one and one of them ended up getting picked up by Gore to run in for a TD. A few lucky bounces go NE's way after they gave the game away and I think NE would have won. I wouldn't point to SF's lead as them waxing NE. NE put up 520 offensive yards on SF.If you watched the AFC Championship game, that was a game were
Baltimore dominated every facet and held NE's offense in check. If Baltimore plays D like that, I would be shocked if they don't win the game. I don't think SF's D is as great and it has been exposed in the playoffs like they were last year. It has been SF's offense that has won their playoff games this year and last year.
How exactly do you "dominate every facet" of the game and go into half time trailing?
Did you miss the 21-0 score in the second half? How exactly do you wax someone winning a game by 7 when you had a 28 point lead and they made a bunch of mistakes and you lucked out to only have 1 in 6 fumbles become turnovers? Do you watch complete games or just one half? I watched the whole 49er/NE game and the NE/Baltimore game and IMHO Baltimore looked better. Baltimore won by 15 and held the NE offense to 13 points or 21 less than SF. If they kept playing both games another quarter, Baltimore wins easy, SF, not sure. That is why I consider it waxing.LOL at the RB/TE being out argument agains Baltimore. Ridley had 18 carries against Baltimore and only 9 against SF and Gronk didn't play against SF, so how is that even an argument in your mind that SF somehow played a better NE team. NE still put up 520 yards against SF.
Not trying to say SF isn't good, but if you actually watch a complete game it helps you see more. I stand by my comment, if Baltimore's D plays like they did last week, I think they win.