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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Some Kind of Predictions

As any real fan would be aware of by now, the NFL play-offs have been underway for the past week. It'd be easy to forget since for once no one was talking about the New England Patriots for a week, but sadly the days of "The Pursuit of Perfection" are back.

This week, the New England Patriots will put their 16-0 record on the line in the Divisional Play-off round against the 12-5 Jacksonville Jaguars. The record disparity doesn't mean much here, but perhaps I'm the first person crazy enough to give these cats a chance. With a relatively mistake-free quarterback in David Garrard and an intimidating defense, the Jaguars may have the best chance yet to derail the perfection train. Sure it seems everyone says that when the Patriots play a team that doesn't reek of Dolphin, but this time I'm totally, really serious.

Still, it's hard to imagine a team that hasn't lost yet losing in the first round of the play-offs, even if it would be funny. So as much as it pains me, here's the deal. The Patriots will outgun a Jacksonville team that relies too heavily on it's running game to succeed. New England goes 17-0 by beating a tough Jags squad, 35-24.

What? There are other games this week? Eh, perhaps another day.

1 comment:

BeauJangles Baker said...

The Jaguars have a solid team. Yes, and they have a very mistake free quarterback in Gerrard. Although no matter how much I dislike the patriots team they are solid. The only true chance the Jags have is to play mistake free with no or one turnovers. The defense will have to play extremely well and force turnovers. That will not be easy because the Patriots have proven they dont turn over the ball all season long. Pats win 28 to 17. I wuold like to see the Jags win though.