My hometown New England Patriots.
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I'm not going to be biased, I'm going to be realistic. Tom Brady is still on top of the MVP watch and he doesn't even have Gronk to throw to. Did that effect him much? Nope, Tom the Terrific always finds someone to throw to, like Welker, and he ended up leading all fantasy scorers the past week still. I haven't even got to the Pats defense either, talk about opportunistic. The players on this defense have been taught to go for the ball, and force turnovers, and clearly it's worked. The two leaders in the NFL in forced fumbled with 5 both come from the Patriots: Rob Ninkovich and Brandon Spikes. Rookie Chandler Jones adds in another 3 forced fumbles and 6 sacks. Jerod Mayo leads the NFL in tackles with 112. Basically what I'm trying to say is, if you thought the Patriots defense had problems, you're wrong. Ask Andrew Luck and the Colts and Mark Sanchez and the Jets if you don't believe it.
Yes, we allow offenses to get yards against us, we have a weak secondary, but hopefully fitting in Aqib Talib and getting some other players back healthy will fix that up. Plus, our points for verses points allowed differential is +163, the next closest is San Francisco with +121. Our offense has scored a whooping 407 points, where as the next closest (Houston) has scored 327. I'm not going to dive into it much, but lets not forget the fact that the Patriots could be undefeated right now, if it weren't for some uncharacteristic, costly mistakes. The three games we lost were by a combined margin of 4 freaken points. Once we get Gronk back and have him and Hernandez together again finally, we will be deadly.
When put up against a top team this season they haven't played well at all. They will get a first round bye, not sure if they will make the afc championship game this year though.
Every year they are considered overrated. This year, they are being overlooked. Losses have been close, wins have been big! They had a mediocre start, but I think they could beat any team they played RIGHT NOW.
