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1. I’m really hoping McDaniels pulls out the faster playbook, we can’t have maye constantly scrambling with no options and try to force a run or a fumble to get hurt or drop the ball. It seems we were only trying to go deep. They will need to run routes where it gives maye room to run or fake a run and pass,, this trying not to run BS out of the pocket needs to stop, we need him running like he was in the first bills game. We need diggs/Henry/hollins more involved in the mid pass range, boutee will be the deep ball threat, and go Brady style slants mid field all day with an occasional qb draw Not sure if the last two teams did lock our wrs, but we can’t have another game where our defense makes 50 stops and we only score once. Run trips or double slants to set up the over under. Enough with shotgun deep pass, we only need to do shotgun when the run game is good, and throw forward screens not flat screens for ffs. Stop running on third downs and run on first and second down, you guys were doing the opposite.

2. Hey guys, Broncos fan here. Not tryna do one of the karma grab posts I just genuinely had to vent for a second after this weekend. 

   What an incredibly frustrating end to the season. To be on the doorstep and have it end like that. 

   Anyway, that said, patriots fans online have been shockingly chill about this all. Way more than I ever expected. A lot of people acknowledging that the game was basically over the second Nix went down and it’s appreciated. The shit talk I’ve seen from patriots fans has been directed at all the people who have been writing the team off all season, not at broncos specifically, which I appreciate a lot. We felt the same way and our teams had a lot of parallels this season, both winning a ton of games and still being discredited. 

   Anyway, I feel cheated and robbed, not of a Superbowl but of a matchup I had been hyping myself up for ever since the playoff field was set. I really wanna see Bo vs Maye next year.

   But cheers to you guys, I won’t pretend I like your team because we have too much history for that but youre a good group.

3. Yes the banner is terrible its just a stop gap till we get our hands on a proper one , apologies

4. I honestly can’t believe we’re back, it’s not even fair. We went to the American Frauds Conference Championship and we were determined to be the bigger frauds, or not as fraudulent, I don’t know how that works, but fuck you we’re back and it’s any given Sunday now. No one’s giving us a shot, just how I like it. Sort of, I’d like a little more of a shot tbh.

5. 12 days remain

6. I think this is a closer matchup than everyone is saying, which doesn’t say much because most people are predicting a blowout.

   But the things they say about the Patriots and their schedule, those things can be said about Seattle in certain respects, if you really want to reach and manipulate the narrative(which is happening against the Patriots right now). The argument for a blowout is that the Pats won’t move that ball vs. their defense, which is a top 5 unit. Last week that defense looked very mortal. Stafford hung up 31 on them, 37 in their last matchup. They’ve had several games where teams put up a good amount of points, and not even elite units.

   The Seahawks have won as many games as they have because they’re a very good, very complete team, with talent on both sides of the football. But neither side is infallible, they have had their struggles here or there throughout the season, but when one side struggles the other picks up the slack.

   The Patriots…very good team too, not nearly as complete, especially on the offensive side of the football. When it comes to their schedule propping their record up, I don’t think that can really be denied. With a normal strength of schedule, they still might take the division, but I can easily see 2 or 3 more losses sprinkled in there(along with the Bills, same teams essentially).

   The Patriots have played some good defenses throughout the season and moved the ball very effectively…just not in these playoffs. But the Texans and Broncos game, no one was moving the ball, gusty, snowy, cold, awful conditions.

   Ultimately, this game, how close it will be, comes down to the Pats oline I think. If they can reliably stop 4 man pass rushes and force extra guys to get pressure, they should be fine. If a 4 man pass rush is getting to Drake, they’ll struggle as we’ve seen. I think the hope is that guys coming back from injury were rushed back early and haven’t been 100%, and 2 weeks + warm weather will get them closer to full strength.