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RUSH: Okay. National Football League championship games. The AFC game is at three o\u2019clock. It\u2019s the New England Patriots hosting the Baltimore Ravens. I can give you an interesting statistic. You may not know this. The New England Patriots regular season record is 13-3. They did not beat a team with a winning record the whole season. Now, stop and think of that. They won 13 games and did not beat a team with a winning record. They lost to the Steelers. They lost to the New York Giants. They had, by quirk of fate, the weakest schedule. The record of their combined opponents was .459, less than 50%. I think that is an amazing statistic. The Patriots also had to put at least 30 points up every week to have a chance.<\/p>\n
The New England Patriots own the middle of the field. They didn\u2019t do that on offense, they haven\u2019t been able to do that — they weren\u2019t able to do that — in 2009. This game is really… I\u2019m gonna be shocked… Not shocked. I\u2019m gonna be surprised if the Super Bowl is not New England-San Francisco. There\u2019s rain falling in San Francisco. The Fort\u2019iners\u2019 field is underwater, anyway. It\u2019s below sea level and could be a mudder game, and that favors the Fort\u2019iners because that means you gotta run the ball. The Giants are down at the bottom of the list in the running game. Their passing game depends on speed, which is neutered with a muck-wet field. It\u2019s gonna be covered, but it\u2019s still below sea level, anyway. Four days of rain, it\u2019s gonna be moist.<\/p>\n
The Giants have a couple injuries nobody\u2019s talking about. Their tight end is not doing well. The Fort\u2019iners, basically, aside from a wideout, are healthy. They clearly have the edge in the running game, theoretically. However, the Giants are peaking. You know, the Giants are playing well at this point in the season, but so are the Fort\u2019iners. I think they\u2019re both gonna be barnburner games. I think both have a chance to be good, and I can see upsets in both of them. “Home team” is no longer the built-in advantage that it used to be in this weekend. In the divisional round weekend last week, it is. But just look at the games straight up, I\u2019ll be surprised if the Super Bowl is not New England and the Fort\u2019iners. Is that an official pick? I guess I have to stand by that as a official pick. So that\u2019s what it is. We\u2019ll see. Three o\u2019clock Sunday, it all kicks off and we\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Okay. National Football League championship games. The AFC game is at three o\u2019clock. It\u2019s the New England Patriots hosting the Baltimore Ravens. I can give you an interesting statistic. You may not know this. The New England Patriots regular season record is 13-3. They did not beat a team with a winning record the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n