For the record, I’m a Cardinals and Lions fan
and have no dog in this fight.
Has there ever been an easier path to winning the Super Bowl at this point than the Pats have. Case Keenum, Nick Foles, and Blake Bortles are the remaining QB’s? Really? I get that defense really matters, but let’s not forget with those Seattle teams, they had a dude named Russel Wilson. We still have to go back to Trent Dilfer to find a crummy QB with a great D who won a Super Bowl.
Chalk up another one for the Patriots this year.
hold on, stay with me here.. 3 of the BEST defenses in the NFL are still alive next weekend. one of them is the historically significant Jags defense..forget the QB's the Ravens won with Dilfer (yuck)..Giants won with Hostetler..Redskins won with Doug Williams, Rypien..Bears with Jim McMahon..none of these guys were anything special ( ok maybe Rypien was for a cup of coffee), but none are HOF'ers..
I don't think it's an easy shot at all for NE to win the SB, or even win next weekend..they have BB and TB and Gronk,but not much else..they're great we know this. but if they beat the NFL's top 2 defenses in the Jags and then the Vikings you tip your hat to them,or Eagles..they would've earned it..hell man, Dolphins once again beat NE down here in Fla. the lousy Dolphins with Jay Cutler!! and didn't Cam Newton beat them in NE?
I'd MUCH rather see the best defense in the AFC if not the entire NFL ( Jags) vs NE next week,than the lousy stinkin' steelers who can never and have never beaten the Pats in a meaningful game in what, a decade or more now?! cmon...you KNEW Tomlin had no chance in Foxboro next week..maybe the same is true for Jax, but for pete's sake at least it's NOT the 'can't get over the hump' Steelers again..:rollseyes:
and doubtful anyone's beating Minny in a home SB...
Jim Scwartz I'm not a fan of, but he can coach a sack happy bunch that'll get after Brady..and the Golf Visor in 5 degree weather wearing Doug Pederson can dial up some plays to confound the Pats defense..
I actually like this years crop of final 4 teams and if the Pats win it all , they have to go thru the best teams in the league, ones that have been at the top all year long..kudos to them if they pull it off..but Saints weren't beating NE they NEVER do..Pitt never does.
if you're a Pats hater like I am you couldn't ask for a better final 4! the NFLs best teams are left. 1/2 seeds in NFC, 1/3 seeds in AFC..
KC, Pitt were pretenders but we knew this.