My honest trying to be unbiased prediction:
I see two routes-
The first, the tigers are going to be rolling off momentum, as someone said, you don’t beat wrh just to lose the next game. Look at ED’s win. With that being said, even with all the momentum in the world, NE isn’t a team that’s going to be shut down off of it. Our strong point is the defense, every air raid team we’ve played ends up with #9, #55, #5, #61 and the most scary #4 being in the backfield hawking the QB. Unless NE OL comes different, I don’t think NE athletes will be able to out match ours, not without the help of the OL. That being said, our offense isn’t a pudding pop O either. Recent years we’ve seen this offense rolling but then pulling the 9mm out and shooting them selves in their own darn foot. This years different, the fumbles and penalties on offense have been very clearly cleaned up. If the offense gets going early we should be fine. But this buzz abt NE defense makes me break a little bit of a sweat. I don’t like to use this argument because it may seem like I’m down playing that defense, BUTTTTT we still haven’t seen this defense go up against a nasty cruel smash mouth offense. If this goes as stated, 28-25 JK.
Now the second route, the tigers feel the pressure and let it get to them, regardless of this I’m not quite worried about our defense, it’s more so our offense. We need them to really go hit some junkers in the mouth and everything will be fine. What I’ve seen be our biggest weakness so far is our kicking game. This is no shot to our kicker, he’s a soccer player who stepped up to the moment has been able to keep us going. BUTTT his missed fg against WRH in the first game ended it for us instead of pushing it to OT. The second game I can’t fully say it was his fault, looked like all of the bulldogs were in his face, I’m sure the blocking will be better this time around. If we make mistakes on special teams and can’t get this offense rolling I think NE will take it.
I’ve been giving shit to some NE posters all week but in all honesty NE is a great team who is capable of beating any remaining team. But these tigers prosper and shine when they feel over looked. They take any opinion against them personal and that’s good, they use it as fuel to go and knock your words right out of your mouth. Just ask
@Darkhorse#34. At the begging of the season they made a chart shouting out some dogs from the JK fb team, the ones who were left out of it went to midway and made them feel silly for overlooking them.
All in all this game is going to be good and there’s nothing left to say or do other than to let them play ball.
