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Three Things to Watch This Week - AFC Championship Game

The defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots play Blake Bortles and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Gillette Stadium in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday January 21st at 3:05 PM.


Frank Power Rankings:

1) Reynolds

2) -a Potente

3) Rizzo

4) Oz

5) cocktail

6) Thomas

7) -enstein

8) Drebin

9) -lin, Mass.

10) -N-Furter

11) Sinatra

12) -lin Delano Romanowski



Live look at Tom Brady's hands.

Is Brady's hand OK?  I'm hearing it's just a cut, not a break.  But who the heck knows?  I'm not going to freak out about it.  Nothing we can do about it at this point.  We won't know for sure until halfway through the first quarter anyway.

Here's three things I'm excited about for Sunday:

1) Rob Gronkowski - Visual reminder of what a matchup nightmare the Gronk is to cover. 

2) Dion Lewis - Easily the team MVP for the second half of the season.

3) Danny Amendola - You forget Amendolas on the team sometimes... and then he has an 11 catch 112 yard game against the Titans last week.  Good stuff!


My prediction: Pats 31, Jaguars 17

(BUT... if Hoyer has to come in anytime before the final kneel down, then Pats 14, Jags 26)


*****

This week we have Fake Josh McDaniels filling for Fake Bill Belichick.

What's up, Bro-no Tattaglias?

Josh definitely isn't one to walk around saying "I told you so...", but...

WHY DID WE TRADE JIMMY G AGAIN?

We could have had a competent backup QB for the playoffs.  And now we've got a Potential Situation on our hands here.  Not good times, amici. 

Assuming we survive this week, we're going to have to have a full on Family Meeting.  Sooner rather than later.

That's all for me.

JAY MICK DEE OUT.  (Probably for good.)

Fake Josh's Josh Jam of the Week:

The War On Drugs - Holding On 


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