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I don't doubt the crowd can make the difference in this game and I realize KC overall record in home playoff games but playing for the super bowl is different than first or second round games.

I don't think the Chiefs player and coaching staff will be fooled by the Patriots. I think they know while they won't be getting lets say the best Patriots team in terms of talent during the Brady years, they will be getting a very tough opponent that is relatively healthy.

Certain playoff games I wasn't optimistic at all because of lack of talent/and or injuries but if Chiefs win this game, I suspect they are going to have to truly earn it. Barring key Patriot injury since obviously if Brady goes down early with injury, Patriots are burnt toast given below average backups. And if Edelman or even Gronk goes down in this game in first half given Josh Gordon is out, it will be hard for Patriots to score enough points to win.

Unlike let's say the NFC teams that advanced, I don't think the Patriots or Chiefs fully earned their wins last week. Their opponents were not that good in terms of their play and/or schemes. Luck looked like a QB with a bum shoulder. Unless you are truly elite, playing zone against Brady isn't the way to go. IF need be, Brady could have scored another touchdown or two but Patriots obviously let up after that first half and just wanted clock to run out.

Philly beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl and they earned it. Slightly better team that day one the game.

okay :)

Yeah I can see it now.

"Hey Tom, can you believe what this BleedingRed guy on Chiefsplanet.com said?!"

Who has the better....


Offense

Special Teams

Defense

Common Patriot fans add it up.......

Not really. Some of us enjoy good, strategic discussions with the opponent.

If you were in the lot at Gillette, it'd be the same deal. Just some friendly opponent discussion.

But, your insecurity is showing a bit now, which seems to be a prevailing theme throughout this thread.

If you had something of substance to counter with, you would've already done it.

LOL!

Rivers was under pressure on over 70% of his passes against us and was held to like 120 yards and 7 points until garbage time.

Your pass rush at home against him was so effective that he beat you.

Umm, apparently you aren't aware of what BB does to motivate his players.

I am not saying it's coming from this board, but I can guarantee you there are people that work for the organization that go around collecting this kind of stuff for BB.

Absolutely.

Right we don't have to manafacture outrage and pretend we never get a break. THE NFL hates the Patwiots wahhhhhh

Oh, word? Well hopefully Bill's staffers find this one:

**** the Patriots. You're about to get your shit pushed in.

ROFL

Amateur internet psychologist over here, diagnosing my insecurity.

Here's the deal:

We had plenty of substance - IN WEEK SIX - when the first lot of Patriotrolls showed up here.

You want us to talk football and be intelligent but no matter what we say it's "BRADY GOAT. BILL BEST. YOU LOSE"

How about this?

**** YOU

Offense - Even (Match up does favor NE, though - I can still see Ford trying to run with James White or Cordarrell Patterson and NE's secondary will do well vs KC's offense again, they just need to avoid 1-2 brain farts like the last time)

Special Teams - Even? (NE's was horrid to start the year, but two sneaky acauisitions mid season of McClellan and Humber have seemingly stabilized it) - Gostkowski is good. RYan Allen is good)

Coaching/Intangibles/Weather - NE

Homefield - Obviously KC

That BB, he's the smartest most bestest coach ever.

^^Again, sweet insecurity on display.

I like Midwesterners from Minnesota and Wisconsin (and Iowa) a lot more. You people are flat out just angry.

What is it?

NE was 3 points better than KC at Gillette, after being up 15, in Mahomes 7th career start, in which NE had zero penalties and won the turnover battle and TOP.

Now 5,000 yards and 50 TD's later, Mahomes get's to welcome Brady to his house.

Why wouldn't Chiefs fans be confident? We should just take your word for it that NE will somehow stop KC's offense? You guys act as though BB is the only one watching film of that first game, and is making adjustments.

Can't believe it bothers you that a fan base doesn't show the requisite deference to your team... lol

... says the Patriot fan posting on a Chief forum...

... and the guy all bent out of shape over "disrespect" on an opposing teams site... lol

Umm, he is the best coach of all time. Obviously.

A commissioner was literally hired to find ways to try to slow him down.

He drafted and developed Brady, too. His GM work is wildly underrated, too. The best of the Cap Era, the best of all time for this kind of sustained success.

Your jealousy of this only makes you look bad.

That said, these facts won't have a ton to do on Sunday unless Reid screws up and panics again.

ROFL

If only you knew were I was from then, because it's not Missouri or Kansas.

Let me put this in plain English that even Patriot fan can understand:

ME NOT WORRIED. ME ANNOYED. PATRIOT FAN STUBBORN, SAYS WANTS FOOTBALL TALK BUT NOT ACTUALLY WANT FOOTBALL TALK. ACTUALLY WANT TO PROVE SUPERIORITY.

Exactly. He's a smart one.

Andy Reid has the second-most playoff wins of any active NFL coach, but no he doesn't know shit. Meanwhile, Bill's over there getting Chiefsplanet.com posts printed out for the bulletin board so we are uber-****ed.

How ****ed up is your life if you think your team is gonna take stuff written on an internet message board, by opposing fans, and use that as BB material? Lmao! Is the earth flat or round??

... and you guys wonder why no one bothers talking scheme with you... y'all clearly no nothing about football...

ROFL

I think you have chosen the wrong word ("disrespect").

Chiefs fans whistling past the graveyard matching up wit the Pats are MORONS.

I want you to disrespect and be cocky. Just surprised at the AMOUNT of people in here doing it.Pats fans have seen this so many times.

Where does Marty Schottenheimer go on that list?

Just curious. bawahah

Agreed the home/away thing up and down the board over the entire game does have a factor. I do wish we were in Foxboro, but that is not going to happen.

The crowd could get to our Oline like it has in prior playoff games. Also, we have made mental mistakes on the road that we need to avoid.

I really wish we still had Amendola.

We not as strong in years past and we need to plan clean this Sunday.

KC did not show any signs of rust or nerves this past Saturday.

The Pats need to bring our A game too.

Although we are not in Foxboro, one silver lining is that it would be a nice story if Brady and Co. can go into Arrowhead and secure a win.

Whatever little 'football' credibility you had left, just went buh-bye right there. you wouldn't happen to be the inventor of the infamous '52 bearcat mike' defense, are you?

Are you this stupid?

Before SB 39, BB read of Andy Reid's parade route in Philly. The team was in shock and incensed looking around the room during the Walkthrough meeting on Saturday night.

YES. YES! BB does stuff like that and looks under every rock to get his team ready to play a game.

Just because you're a little uneducated out there and don't know facts and realities, doesn't mean they don't exist.

Your reputation as educated fans, is waning. Big time.

See here's the thing, we ALREADY KNOW how good the Patriots are, we already know how good their coach is, and we already know who Tom Brady is (we also know who his son his since he likes to kiss him on the mouth, but anyway)...

You coming here and "educating" us doesn't change any of that. It just makes us less inclined to acknowledge it. Not because the Chiefs are better or because the Patriots aren't good.

It's because you are a troll and there's no point in actually talking about football with you. It wouldn't matter what we said, you made up your mind before you ever signed in here. So don't act like this is unexpected. You didn't come here for honest football talk, you came here for THIS.

To tell us all how much better you are than us bunch ah midwestern hicks.

Now tell me how many of those times have been when NE was on the road in the playoffs?

It went by? Then why did I see Cordarrelle Patterson running right by a pass rushing Dee Ford from the October game? Did I just imagine this? Did I imagine James White's 15 grabs last week into the flat?

Your LBs are worse in coverage than the 7 DBs just used on Sunday.

It's not my issue your homerism can't see the reality.

They're a 1 see every year. 2004 is the best example @ Pitt. This has a very similar feeling to that.

Steelers fans looked past the Pats big time and though the 10.31 game in Pitt meant something.

lol

Let me tell you, we're ****ing devastated.

Because the fans have such an effect on the game.

How am I troll? I am the only one (alongside other knowledgeable Pats fans) talking actual football. It's just you insecure types darting in and out of the thread one by one not engaging in football discussions.

That's pretty telling to an objective reader.

You keep responding, but you never counter and just tap out like a child.

Reading of Reid's parade route in philly =/= scouring opposing team message board in search of bulletin board material.

And fortunately , your reputation as a spoiled and condescendingly ignorant fanbase remains well intact...

twitter.com/MikeGiardi/status/1085613912882589696

Well, you're claiming homefield is an advantage with the fans.

Which is it?

We are not looking past you, we are looking right at you. And we are no scared nor do we see a reason to be.

You were talking about message boards, not stadiums. ROFL

The Patriots aren’t the same team as they’ve been in the past.

They are a 3-5 road team now that hasn’t won a playoff game away from Gillette in over a decade.

Prepare your booty

God DAMMIT--be scared already, BleedingRed!!

I must have missed that game. Did the fans play poorly or something?

The Chiefs haven't won an AFCCG at home in their entire existence.

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Because there are players on this years team that were on those teams...

My bad, I thought we were just posting irrelevant facts for the fun of it.

Yep. They're going to have to mix in some zone, though, even though Mahomes does well against it.

The key is not letting get right, which means not letting him step up and run right to buy more time.

Also, limit the big play to Hill and Kelce, and make him throw MORE -on drives like the first half of the first match up with the 2 INTs and his happy feet.

Don't you see, Chief_N_Bama, you're supposed to be ****ing scared already. Stop resisting it!!

If you don;t think football is an emotional game and about attitude/mentality, I cannot help you.

Whoa.

Only ones from this year, because previous years don't matter.

And only ones from October on, because September is still the preseason.

And only ones from certain stadiums, because the team never wins there.

And only ones from the game where the QB didn't have an MCL sprain, even though seemingly his knee was hurt in every loss.

And once you get through those, we can only look at games where they ran plays named after protozoans. And even then only SPARINGLY, we have to look at those with a rate of 8-10%.

Keep thinking that.

You keep drinking anti-Pats media Koolaid, and you'll be sucking your thumb Sunday night wondering what happened.

My goodness. You'd think after 20 years of people disrespecting the Pats and being burned, you'd stop.

lol

I love it. Love everything about it....Underdog, road game so they can shut everyone up, etc.

Plays right into their hands.

It was his 7th start. If you've watched him over the course of the season, you've seen his footwork steadily improve. The "happy feet" are almost gone.

Wow, the insecurity in this post.

So, the Pats record on the road THIS year is irrelevant, huh? And you guys wonder why no one wants to talk football with you...

He was calling us hillbillies and other nice things until it got exposed that he's from North Carolina. He promptly stopped. LMAO Poor guy also gets pretty upset if you point out his shitty grammar.

Oh, I agree, but the fans though? The fans? On internet message boards?

Lol... I'm not the one needing help...

We're all scared and fully respect the Patriots. We're expecting to lose. You win, fellas. Here's some spank-bank material to send you on your way--bye!

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Maybe he actually intended to type Adderall instead of afterall?

LOL

Media kool aid?

Your favorite football team only won 3 games away from Gillette this year and those were by teams with bad QBs.

Weren't you guys using last week's game (a single game) as an indicator that your defense is awesome now, while ignoring the regular season?

Everyone say hi to Bill Belichick!

Not to mention that the Pats intentionally played bad in those late road games so that they lost HFA and everyone would overlook them and then - TADA! - they will suddenly play like the greatest team ever in the AFCCG.

The guy can’t follow his own conversations, but we’re supposed to be impressed with his football knowledge.

You don't understand that some data points are more relevant than others. NE being 3-5 on the road this year, and KC's performance at home LAST WEEK are far, far, far, more germane to Sundays game than events more than 3+ years ago...

Oh dear, them swim trunks are a wee bit tight. . .

God damned Bill is a GENIOUS!!

Football rope-a-dope. GENIOUS!!!

Only concern I have going into the game is how Mahomes will react if offense isn’t clicking as wel in the first quarter and patriots are doing a good job defensively limiting him.

Will he be patient or play erratically trying to make the right play. What if there is an INT or a a fumble etc etc. In this magnitude type of game with the pressure on, I’m not sure how Pat will react.

With that said, go chiefs

The defense hasn't given up more than 29 points at home since the 2nd week of 2015. They haven't been dominant, but are much better at home than on the road.

I can completely understand that concern, however he has shown a lot of resilience in big situations.

It's not more relevant at all just because you pray hard for that to be the case. Completely different schemes and personnel matchups this week.

The 2018 defense is not the 2017 defense, the 2016 defense, or 2015 defense. Another irrelevant fact.

History doesn't count. 2015 isn't 2018.

17 ppg at home, ignore at your own peril.

So let me guess, the only things that are relevant are those that are positive for the Patriots and negative for the Chiefs?

Andy Reid is 0-2 vs Belichick in the playoffs.

The Chiefs have 0 home wins in the AFCCG.

You're doomed because of history.

LMAO even as slim as they are, yes he's trying to convince himself.

Against some of the worst offenses in the league. The best offense you faced at home this season beat you.

Bingo! Now get scared already!