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:	post by RustyPS at 2012-01-04 22:59:38

frankovhell said	[orig][quote]
No fucking way Pats get to the super bowl with that atrotious fucking joke of a defense. I'm sorry but the playoffs are are a different ball game. You have to have an "ok" defense to get through it. Not a god awful excuse for one. Steelers or Baltimore will beat us. Packers or Saints will win it all this year.

Someone hasn't been watching the rest of the NFL this year. Both the Packers and the Saints have VERY suspect defenses. In fact, the Pats, Packers, and Saints are all built pretty much the exact same way: future HOF QBs playing at the highest level, a variety of weapons for those QBs to throw to, sub par running games (in fact, the Packers running game has been virtually nonexistent all season), and defenses that can stop the run when they need to, can't defend the pass if their lives depended on it, but can make big plays in a pinch.

....and since you brought up the Ravens and Steelers, neither are without weakness....shall we?

Ravens: very good defense, not legendary as they can and have been, but definitely very formidable, Ray Rice is a stud, but every so often, their offensive coordinator forgets that they don't have Joe Montana as their QB and just straight up takes the ball out of Rice's hands and trusts in Joe Flacco to win it all for them, and Flacco has taken a good 3-4 steps back this year...they don't really scare me

Steelers: Roethlisberger came out today and admitted he suffered a setback with his brutal ankle injury....granted, he's still very effective at 70-75%, but where is he really? And while Batch is one of the best backup QBs out there, they're not beating you with him...they lost Mendenhall for the rest of the year...does Redman scare you? They're also pretty banged up across the board...and the Pats offense has been historically been able to dictate what they are going to do against the Steelers' defense even when they're at full strength, with the exception of earlier this season, but when it comes down to it, the Pats offense had opportunities in that game and didn't capitalize on them

In fact, for as bad as the Pats defense supposedly is, you could easily blame all 3 of the Pats losses on the offense

Bills: 4 Brady INTs
Steelers: already said the offense didn't capitalize on multiple opportunities
Giants: 4 Brady turnovers

As I said earlier, turnover statistics are the stats that correlate the closest to wins and losses, and when your QB turns the ball over 4 times in a game, its extremely hard to win those games. That said, I don't foresee Brady pulling another 4 turnover game against any of the 11 remaining playoff teams, except the Niners.

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