Why do the morons in the press ask the same stupid questions day after day? Can't you guys just report what you see?

Ya...I can see a blow out...Pats 40 Colts 17

After a while they run out of relevant things to talk about so they end up asking all these stupid questions. It's really funny sometimes don't you think. They must feel stupid themselves.

Amen, Patrick. It's time for so-called football writers to write about football and Sunday's game rather than last year, or revenge, or emotion. Talk blocking and tackling, not psychological babble. Talk about cover schemes, not cover-ups. Just talk football.

Rodney is right.....Last year is dead and gone and in this game of football , playing for this particular organization and coach you live stirctly in the present. as in here and now. These poor media types are looking for story lines and just hoping someone, anyone will give them a morsel or two...
They definitely have a tough row to hoe with Coach B and his cadre.....:-)

I don't think it'll be a blow out, but I really do think the Pats will stomp the Colts. Pats by at least 17 points. Right it down.

Question is why do they ask Rodney this, he didn't even played that game

48 to 14 pats .those idots are just trying to enertain us,thank god they dodnt do stand up

Shut out the media from pre-game completely. They don't bring anything to the table. There is a better chance of me hooking up with Gisele than a Patriots player/coach saying anything interesting before a game like this.

i can sense the rage within harrison. he is going to unleash it sunday hardcore. i cant wait! the colts are going to be taken away in bodybags.

The playoff game went Colts 38-34. I was on suicide watch for 4 weeks after that game. We coulda - shoulda - woulda.
We"almost" won: and we didn't have a lot of the players that we have today. Do you think if the Pats get out ahead 28-6 this time that they will fold --no way. The only way we lose this game is through massive turnovers - rmember the 2005 Denver Playoff game - ot the world comes to an end with Tom Terrific getting knocked out of the game. We win and we win BIG

The Media really needs to stop haunting the Patriots
We are not the Same team as last yr. Different team all together and different players

Kind of torn here. I think the Pats will win by 2 scores, maybe 38-28, but really, even given that, how can they be favored by 5 AT Indy. Ridiculous....

I think you have to be mindful, as a patriot fan and a football fan, that the media has to strike a balance between reporting on a game that has a ton of complexities and a readership that has a wide range of understanding the depth of the game. Its exactly why FOX has Buck and McCarver on the big games. They make the game more accessible to the casual viewer while the real baseball fans can see what is going on.

Its not just about asking the same questions over and over again. Its about finding answers to the questions that a larger proportion of the readership want to know. And its about making the game and the media surrounding the game have themes that invite people to watch and read about the game.

If you don't like it, there are plenty of sports blogs on the net with all the analysis you could ever want. Rodney doesn't give a crap. He's playing a part just as they are.

methinks he doth protest too much!

48 - 27 NO PROBLEM!!

I am from Indy and I think we can win the game Sunday, but New England is a very powerful team. I thought the NFL might file some kinda anti-trust lawsuit against New England when you got Randy Moss. Congrats on 8-0.

The king of the NFL will be crowned Sunday, and it will be the Patriots!! No crying about running up the score, if you don't like it, stop 'em if you can...guess what, you can't!!

No Turnovers:
Pats - 4 TD's, 3 FG's
Colts - 4 TD's
Pats dominate much of game, Indy held to minimal yards on the ground. Big passing plays by Manning keep the Colts close - Pats 37, Colts 28.

For every Colts turnover, however, take a TD away from them and give it to the Pat's baby - because they're UNSTOPPABLE!

I don't see Belicheat losing a game this year.

Pats 42 - Indy 28. Welker 3 TDS. Manning sacked 5 times.

I agree. Why irritate the players by asking the same stupid hypothetical questions or delve on the past. Shut up, let them play and ask all the relevant questions when the game is over

You know, who wins this game is not nearly as important as who wins the next one. The next Patriots - Colts game that is.

It's gonna be a highly defensive game between the two of them. I imagine both of the teams' main goals are to keep Brady or Manning from their weapons. This game isn't about revenge... it's simply about who plays better this Sunday. I am from Indy, but I'm a die-hard Patriots fan.

GO PATS!!!!

Tom Brady: 6 TDs, 0 INT, 522 yrds
Peyton Manning: Coma

MAKE NO MISTAKE, AND LET THERE BE NO DOUBT. RUN IT UP ON THEM COLTS!!

does any serious commentator who has seen that the pats 3 super bowl victories have been questioned doubt that the patriots will come out on sunday all guns blazing and ratchet up a 4 touchdown lead by the end of the 3rd quarter that will warrant the 2nd and 3rd string. i feel sorry for the commentator that wonders when their 2nd string keeps this a 25 point margin.

I recently visited Madame Olga, imperial wizard, soothsayer of the stars & other notables. Very enlightening.

The Patriots not only demolish the Colts on November 4, 2007, but go on to a perfect season, culminating in their 4th Superbowl in 7 years.

Eric Mangini is fired as head coach of the Jets after a 2-14 season. His agent sadly informs him that there are no offers from pro, collegiate or high school teams in this country. Then the agent absconds with all of Eric’s money. The agent, money are never seen again. Disheartened, Eric, opens a pizza parlor in the Bronx, only to be robbed and pistol whipped on his 4th day of business. All of his life savings, $27.63, is taken. The robber, an escaped Queens mental ward patient who suffered a breakdown during the Jets dismal season of futility, is given probation by the judge.

Roger Goodell suffers through humiliation at the Super Bowl podium when only the team trainer initially comes up to accept the trophy, then tells Roger to please leave. Chagrinned, he complies, as Kraft, Brady, Moss & company enter to a triumphant roar of the crowd. Roger consults his NFL rulebook in a rage, only to find out there are no rules regarding who gets to accept the trophy. In the off season, unable to cope with the coup de grace that befell him, he suddenly rushes a video operator at his niece’s wedding, screaming FOUL, FOUL’, I’m gonna fine you big time! Restrained, he is rushed to a psych ward, where the prognosis is indeed grim. Roger is found to be suffering with extreme angst brought on by inflated self-importance, not allowing any room for criticism. His former employer, the NY Jets, give him a job as supervisor of the mail room. Word is Randy Moss sends the Jets 70 telegrams a day, all deliberately misspelled.

Tony Dungy, swinging from quiet humility, demeanor was one of the very few coaches to join the media circus on Belichick. After losing 56-0 on November 4th, Tony becomes despondent as he watches his new books sales plumment. Panicked, he suddenly changes persona’s and begins berating his players for their lack of effort. His office door is frequently locked, with no light showing through the bottom door crack. After the second crushing defeat by the Patriots in the AFC Championship game, Tony goes into seclusion. Word is he has a new book in the works, entitled: “Regaining Humility”.

The errant video camera operator of the Patriots buys a Mega Super Lotto ticket on a whim in a Bronx pizza parlor just before it is robbed. Turns out to be the sole winner and largest in history. $464 Million! After visiting a prominent Boston investment group, he forms a consortium and buys the NY Jets. He only fires one employee. The guy in the mailroom.

Tom Brady has a sudden change of heart after the SuperBowl and decides to break up with Gisele and marry Bridget Kat’ Moynahan. The son is renamed John Thomas Edward Brady. Two other sons are subsequently born. Barely in the third grade young John flings a football some 65 yards in a school yard game, being noticed by an NFL scout passing by. The errant football sails clear out of the playground striking a dejected ex-mail room employee of the NY Jets sitting on a park bench.

After winning 8 SuperBowls, Bill Belichick decides to retire. He is automatically inducted into the Pro Football HOF after the mandatory 5 year waiting period. Restless after retirement, he decides to rejoin the NFL as a co-owner of the Patriots.. Feeling some empathy, he hires old Roger Goodell, once again assigning him to the mail room. Video cameras are placed all over the room to ensure Roger is always working.

Manning has only been sacked 5 times all season. Their offense line isn't going to disappear this week. It's going to be a batlle in the trenches on the line...Which the Pats win but I would be happy with 2 sacks 6 hurries 2 interceptions and 1 force fumble...That's a hell of a day on Defense. As for a blow out I just want them to win the damn game and shut the rest of the NFL up and shove a ball up the butts of the 72 dolphins

Generally speaking, the media's lazy. They ask the same crap, write the same stories year after year. No one cares about last year.

Pats have been playing a weak schedule in prehaps the weakest division in the NFL this makes any good team look like world beaters. Come this Sunday you will see again how many holes this Pats team needs to fill for next year. Colts getting blowed out at home, what a joke!!! WAKE UP BEAN

When the Patriots are finished mopping the floor with the Colts on Sunday, Peyton Manning will be whining about the Patriots having no class for running up the score.

if what coach belichick and his staff did (spygate) was sooo wrong, why did we hear absolutely nothing from the nfl head coaches , and when any of them (notably coach reid from philly ) were actually quoted , they totally downplayed any strategy advantage the patriots may (or in reality's case did not) have gained - in other words, it's a non - issue . think they've chated themselves to 8-0 ?
anti - trust rules regarding randy moss.....what does that mean?
and last time i saw highlights of the sadness that was the 52-10 buttwhuppin the bears put on the pats in super bowl 20, nobody cried out to comfort the "poor patriots ". steve grogan, one of THE great players of his era, took the most evil beating that day....i didn't hear steve young or john clayton boo-hooing about that. nice job piling on , guys.
i, like many of you go back a long, long way with this team.
mr.kraft is one of us - a lifelong superfan who kept our team here in foxboro, and built this great team. he has seen this team at some awful low points and knew how to remedy the ills of this franchise to become what it is now.
i am humbly proud to follow and root for our team ,win or lose....... and the man who coaches them.
go pats!

The answers to the questions will be answerd on sunday. I think we know everything there is to know about both teams. pats 35-31 in a squeaker.