being a patriots fan, in all honesty, i have found the playoffs this year to be a bit of a letdown. except for last sunday, there have been no competitive games beyond the first few minutes of the 3rd quarter, most of them were over by halftime (or rather you knew who was going to win-handily)
First drive of the pats game yesterday, i knew they were going to be able to score, by halfway thru the quarter i knew they had a plan that was minimizing Bell (then he got hurt and the other RB burned them for a while until it got adjusted) and brown was working decently...i knew the game was won, i just needed to know by how much...hogan imo took Gronk's Role from past steeler-pats game
on to Houston, Pats Defense is legit... #1 defense in pts allowed vs #1 scoring offense imo pats will score ~38 ...and win with the falcons at hmm...24 tops.