Super Bowl or Bust- Chamionship Round Edition

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Flirting with the deadline this week and a 6-2 record going in. The two championship games look to be classics with two great matchups. Shall we?

Patriots at Colts

Here we go again. No, not the fact that New England and Indy meet in the AFC Championship for the second time in four years and have faced each other in the playoffs three times, but another week of a big game being severely over-hyped.

An interesting part of this one is the injury report. Of course the teams are using it for gamesmanship so don't read into it too much. Bob Sanders and Cato June will play. If they don't the Colts are screwed.

History, while not an end all be all of current performance says something about this game. Every time the Patriots have faced an opponent in the playoffs that they last lost to in the regular season has resulted in a win. San Diego last week, the Jets the week before, Indy, Pittsburgh, St Louis. Shall I continue?

I'll stick with what I have been saying about the Pats all postseason. A close game until a critical turnover by the Colts in the fourth. New England runs a sustained drive and comes out victorious. The biggest question is what kind of trick play will they run? MY guess is a DB comes in on offense and scores a touchdown. They haven't run that play in awhile.

Patriots win and prepare for their fourth Super Bowl in six seasons. Manning is consoled by Dungy who tells him the fans aren't saying "Boo" their saying "Mooooovers". I couldn't resist sorry.

New Orleans at Chicago

I am very intrigued by this match up. Usually the Championship rounds do not have high scoring games but I think we have the potential here for something like a 37-32 score. This is probably the game I have the least confidence in predicting so far this postseason.

The Saints have firepower; their offense is pretty damn good. We've already talked about how this team was put together last week so no need to rehash. There is one thing I didn't speak on, their glaring weak spot: Reggie Bush.

He is too freewheeling with the ball. It's almost like it just sits there, balancing on his arm. In the NFL players practice stripping the ball, it is a priority on defense. Sure, tackling is important but in today's game the rules favor the offense so much the only counter they have is a turnover. Watch any tackle made in a game, there is clearly evidence on the players' part to try and get the ball loose.

And it's not like there's a big confidence booster behind center on the Bears either, let's be fair here. Grossman needs a big game, or at the least lead his team in a game-winning drive. Or just don't make mistakes. The pressure of the game and the situation will be a gorilla on Rex's back, let's see how he responds.

Unfortunately, there can only be one winner and I think the Bears defense will do just enough to carry them to the Big Show.

Chicago wins and Saturday Night Live invites George Wentz and Joe Mantegna back to revive a classic sketch.