I agree the Pats will come out firing, but I honestly think they are vulnerable this year. They are pass centric, but as another poster mentioned, you beat them with press man coverage, not zone. Pitt plays a lot of zone which is a problem in that matchup. We play both but are INFINITELY better in press man, and HOPE we play that exclusively vs them.

I just like the matchup vs NE better. Brady cant get away from a breeze let alone dlineman coming at him. Their only speedy WR is more quick than fast and is small, something the press can really negate. I dont think they can reliably run well enough vs us to worry about that. And on the other side, I think we can run vs them.

Not to say we should walk in to that game and destroy them, I just like the matchup

and ya, I too worry about the SF game because of the west coast thing, and the QB change. However I cant imagine us not taking care of business vs the texans with Yates at QB. I mean, all the good feelings I have right now would immediately be washed away if we came out flat vs Houston. If this team IS FOR REAL, they take care of business these final 3 weeks, ideally these next 2, with the titans losing to the rams, and like FBT said we can rest up our last week unless we are playing for the 2 seed.

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