The New England Patriots are looking for a back-to-back Super Bowl title.
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Tom Brady seems locked in for the playoffs.
New England is 15-4 SU in its last 19 games.
The biggest worry Patriots fan should have is the Chiefs defense, who rank 3rd in opponents points per game of 17.9, 7th in yards per game of 329.3, 231.1 passing yards allowed per game and 98.2 rushing yards allowed per game. After dominating the National Football League at the start of the season, the Tom Brady squad lost four of their last six games before the playoffs. Patriots have to continue to do what they do best and move the ball and play timely defense. Quarterback Alex Smith has overthrown Wilson on some deep balls this season, including one against the Texans. On the ground, Spencer Ware rushed for 67 yards and one touchdown in 16 attempts while Smith added 27 yards. No one knows at this point.
The Chiefs and Patriots have plenty of injury situations to follow, while the Packers are hoping to erase a bad December memory of the Cardinals. Any team playing on the road in Foxsborough in January is in for a challenge, but if one team can do it in this year’s playoffs, it’s the Chiefs. This is the first time in Kansas City’s last nine games that the Chiefs are listed as the underdog. He beat Patriots in only career start against them in teams’ last meeting, going 20 of 26 for 248 yards with three TDs and no INTs for 144.4 rating…. Right now, even some of the best minds in football aren’t sure who will win, but they know it’s going to be an exciting weekend of football. “And the job they’ve done there, the accomplishments they’ve had, they’ve made history”, Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
“They can kind of morph in and out of things, I think, as well as anybody in the league, so you really have a menu of things that they could do to you and you kind of have to choose… what you think they might do based on things that have worked against you and things they’ve done, ” Sutton said.
Julian Edelman is expected to make his return to the New England Patriots’ lineup this weekend for their Divisional Round tilt against the Kansas City Chiefs after missing seven regular season games this year. If he’s without wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, who suffered a high ankle sprain – in what looked like a scary replay of his former knee injury – the running backs will have to carry more of the offensive load.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have won 11 straight and are coming off a 30-0 win over the Houston Texans in the AFC Wild Card round. “They get ahead, they play on their terms”, described Brady. They’ve done it with a standout defense and surprisingly good quarterback play from the ever-improving Alex Smith. They played a physical game just a week ago in Cincinnati, while the Broncos were resting up and giving Peyton Manning an extra week to let his arm get a bit stronger.
