Happy Playoff Victory Monday, everyone!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a while since we got one of these; I imagine you\u2019re all as sore as I am. The last time the Patriots played an LA-based team in a low-scoring, defensive battle that broke open when a QB not playing his best football found his rhythm at the right time and hit a tight end up the seam to break the game open just before a massive defensive play sealed it, we were all still putting a 1 in the tens column of our dates. But after an unfathomable six-year playoff win drought, the Patriots took care of business against the Chargers and will be advancing to the AFC Divisional Round to host whoever wins tonight\u2019s game between the Steelers and Texans.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m rooting for the Steelers tonight. I think it\u2019s a better matchup for New England and I\u2019d rather see the Steelers defense than the Texans. Not to get ahead of myself, but there\u2019s this odd smell in the air that leads me to believe that a Buffalo at New England AFC Championship Game has officially stepped off the boat and has begun looking for adequate lodgings. But I won\u2019t go there just yet. Let\u2019s rest, ride the momentum, and gear up for tonight\u2019s game. No matter who it is that comes to Foxoboro on Sunday, I like New England\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Playoff Victory Monday, everyone! It\u2019s been a while since we got one of these; I imagine you\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,91604,1095,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-672091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-playoffs","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-opinion","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}