Jets and Steelers should be a great game now, depending on which team shows up. But for the Jets to go on the road to beat Manning, Brady and Roethlisberger, well, that will be some "feet".
Jets can show up like a whole herd of stomping hoofs for all I care. For them, I hope they can harness all this momentum into smart play. Yes, the coach is a genius and Sanchez will probably be Atlanta's nemesis for pick for top offense in the future, but the Jets have not taken a SB in a very long time.
Jets have beaten the Steelers in the regular season fair and square and I give them that.
It's not so much on the AFC side I am worried about for the Jets, it's who is left on the NFC side.
GB is the only team that has made a huge jump in the playoffs from a team that just barely got in to one that can go all the way and not shock anybody in doing so. GB has Rodgers, of course, but who knew they had so many other tools in their arsenal who would peak this late at the perfect time? Their pressure on Brady was great even though I didn't see a black and blue era type of hit on him ala LT, but just a couple of steps more on speed and the next QB to face the Jets could be in a world of hurt.
Chicago has been strong all the way and they know how to put the hit on offense players. I don't know if GB or Chicago is scarier, but like you said there is something about which team shows up. I was thinking Chicago could completely shut down an opponent's offensive line, but that is not the case so they can be vulnerable.
This postseason has been a great example in teams coming to the field totally unprepared and getting jumped.
The team I see least likely to go all the way are GB or the Steelers but it wouldn't be unlike the hot Jets (like the Pats and Atlanta before them) to simply not show up after having been very in the zone. Chicago may be underrated on O, but they could be the most consistent team standing and that has to count for something. I have always called at least some sort of score as a prediction, but for both championship games,
I'll call it a draw.
Yeah, chicken of me being that I would at least predict a team by a point. But we are pretty even here.
As much as I hate to be on the fence, all I can say is it's not teams winning in the postseason more than it is teams beating themselves. If a team beats themselves in the SB, the team that wins gets the season whether they only score a couple of touchdowns and fail on most 3rd down conversions. If a team wins the SB because the other team is full of violations, then so be it as this has set the tone so far.
Vegas will be hot with the possibilities of having a team completely come out of this cursed postseason unscathed.
