AFC Championship Game

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Indianapolis @ New England (-7.0)

Championship Sunday wraps up with the Colts taking on Tom Brady and the Patriots in Foxboro.  Brady + Belichick + Foxboro + January = I know where I’m laying my money.

Foxboro Forecast: Rain & easy money

Foxboro Forecast: Rain & easy money

The Colts are a fun team to root for.  Andrew Luck is living up to his enormous hype…you know, the best quarterback prospect since John Elway.  The Indianapolis brain-trust is vindicated in their decision to cut bait on an aging Peyton Manning for 15 years of Andrew Luck.  Just ask Jim Irsay, he’ll be glad to tell you all about it. The Colts feature explosive wideouts in TY Hilton and Donte Moncrief. They can’t run the ball for shit, get pushed around in the trenches, are considerably reckless in the ball security department and don’t put up much of a fight on defensive.  As a result, they tend to get into shootouts and let Luck carry the team on his shoulders.  But didn’t they just hold the Broncos and Bengals to 13 and 10 points respectively you ask?  Sure, but honestly could you pick two bigger playoff choke artists than Andy Dalton and Peyton Manning?  Plus, as it turns out, Peyton McChokeyChoke had two bum legs to go along with that robo neck of his.

Butterface Fanbase

Butterface Fanbase

Tom Brady doesn’t choke in the playoffs….unless it’s the Super Bowl….against the G-Men.  But don’t take my word for it, just look at their squeaky clean 16-4 home playoff record.  By the way, half of those loses came at the hands of Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens in recent years, so those demons got exorcised last weekend.

The Patriots are simply a bad match-up for the Colts.  Look no further than the boxscore of the week 11 beat down the Pats laid on the Colts (in Indianapolis).  They made Jonas Gray look like a young-and-not-so-bitter Jim Brown as he dropped 200 yards and 4 touchdowns on them. So Gray is going to go bananas again, right? Wrong!  Remember, Belichick is a genius…or a lunatic, pick your adjective…for all we know Gray won’t even be active for the game (which will still make him as useful as Trent Richardson).  For these reasons I’ve learned to stop hating and love the hoodie!

This guy is a handful

This guy is a handful

Vegas is predicting a shootout with an over/under of 54 and has the Patriots as a one touchdown favorites.  I think Luck is game enough to keep this close for a few quarters but Brady-to-Gronk proves to be too much.  The Patriots win by double digits and use this as a tune-up for the Seahawks.  Silver-lining for the Colts: Andrew Luck will have a reason to shave that woodchuck hanging from his neck.

You'll never land a Papa Johns deal with this look.

You’ll never land a Papa Johns deal with this look.

 

 

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