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Dan Shaughnessy

Get ready for Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning for AFC title

Go ahead. Amuse yourself with the Patriots’ prospects against the Ravens, Colts, or fraud Texans.

Not me. I’m jumping ahead to the main draw. I’m fast-forwarding to the game that destiny demands.

Comments

Another loser column by a loser writer

The Texans aren't frauds, they just peaked too soon.

I don't get the references to "Hef" Kraft. Are they supposed to be funny?

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I think he's referring to Kraft's twenty-something year old girlfriend.


Lately, Shaughnessy's articles appear to be aimed at supplying bulletin board material for opponents and then hoping for an upset.

I think "Hef" Kraft and the comment he made weeks ago about Robert and Jonathon sitting on lifeguard chairs, while Henry Kissinger sat at their knees, are very funny. You have to admit that Kraft dating that bim makes him look kind of foolish. Something tells me Myra wouldn't have approved. Nothing wrong with having a couple yuks while you read a Shaughnessy piece.

Then again, Dan, the Bengals should beat the [fraud] Texans this week and then would travel to [semi-fraud] Denver.  Cincinnati is very capable of beating a team who won 10 straight games against very weak opponents.  I'd take that.

Meanwhile, in reality, any playoff team can beat any other playoff team.

Hope you're right.

Hope Denver lose at home. I want the road to the Superbowl to come through Foxborough and not Denver.