The NFL Thread 2011: New York Giants Win Super Bowl XLVI

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RolStoppable said:

Mendicate Bias said:

 

lol maybe i used relatively too liberally. I played for one of the top high school teams in the country but I blew out my knee senior year so I couldnt keep playing. I played Rugby for the Irish national youth team before I moved back to the states and started playing football.

As for the Patriots beating the Broncos yes I do think its going to happen. The Broncos will be able to get pressure on Brady early on in the game however with most of our starting offensive line back and the threat of our two tight ends the broncos will not be able to crowd the box, and don't even mention dropping one of the safties in unless you want welker to kill you.  This will put all the pressure on the front 4 lineman. This combined with the up tempo offense that Brady keeps the offense in will wear down the linemen and limit the pass rush later in the game.

Hence I predict that early on Brady will get hit a few times and the game will be pretty close with Broncos even having a slight lead. However I think the Pats will get the lead going into the 4th quarter which will force Tebow to come from behind and play a style that he is not comfortable with or very effective at. And when I say come from behind I don't mean get to the 40 yard line and kick a field goal, I mean the pats will be up by at least 1 touchdown forcing Tebow to lead a sustained drive down the length of the field, and we know how that usually goes.

Thats my take on the game, feel free to share yours.

 

This is a huge contradiction. Out of Tebow's seven regular season wins, seven happened after the Broncos went into the fourth quarter with a deficit. So when you know how that usually goes, you cannot predict a victory for the Patriots.

The playoff game against the Steelers was the first time that Tebow's Broncos went into the fourth quarter with a lead and the six point overtime win was Tebow's win by the single highest margin this season.

I am going to predict a Broncos win, because a team like this which was written off several times and barely made it into the playoffs has already accomplished more than anyone, including themselves, expected from them. All the pressure will be on the Patriots, because they absolutely have to win this game.

Going to put up this week's prediction table now.

Thats why I added that last line that the Patriots will be up by over a touchdown. Most of Tebows come back wins have been a result of the kicker and not a sustained drive to the endzone. We saw what happened when he tried to drive down the field on the last possesion against the Chiefs.

Tebow was able to throw so effectively against the steelers because their deep safety was out due to sickle cell and Polumalu was playing that role. Polomalu is excessively aggressive and bit down on the play action way too many times leaving recievers with one on one coverage. Bellicheck is going to see that and make adjustments, you will not be seeing too much of that in the Pats game. Although the Pats defense is so diminished by injuries that we have freaking wide recievers playing as safeties so who knows.

The Broncos are last years Sea Hawks. They come out at home and beat a team that isn't even in the same league as them due to multiple factors combining to make the perfect sotrm. However the perfect storm doesn't strike twice and the Sea Hawks were easily knocked out in the second round and thats exactly whats going to happen to the Broncos.

I'm just going to finish with this. Patriots have only had 3 games where they scored less than 30 points and the Broncos have only had 2 games where they scored more than 30. Do you really think Tebow will be able to keep up with Brady when it comes to scoring?