Patriots - This was yet another time I wish I hadn't been right. Based on their improved playing I changed my prediction that the Patriots would be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs to them being eliminated in the second or third round, which happened when they lost to the Broncos in the second round.
Although things turned out as I predicted I was disappointed anyways. Watching the Patriots gift wrap the game to Denver in the divisional game, I realized the Patriots could have, and should have, won that game. The Patriots were better than the Broncos in all but two stats; turnovers and points (the only stat that matters), the one leading to the other. And of the five turnovers, three, and maybe four, were Patriot mistakes more than they were Denver successes. This is not to say the Broncos didn't deserve to win, because they did. It's more of a knock on the Patriots. They dropped the ball. Denver picked it up.
It became even worse when the Steelers shockingly beat the Colts. Had the Patriots won their game they would have played the Steelers at home, and would have had a good chance at winning, they've beaten the Steelers in the AFC Championship game, in Pittsburg, twice before. But it was all for naught.
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