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Cold play:
Brace yourself for frigid football in Foxborough and Green Bay. To warm you up, here's the cold reality on Brett Favre, heat secrets, weird games and more.
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Freezer Bowl
Greatest seasons:
Tom Brady had a season for the ages. But how does it stack up -- or in the case of Oakland's Lester Hayes (left) ''stick up" -- with other fantastic falls of the modern era?
Jeffri Chadiha
Pursuit of Perfection:
The Pats are trying to become just the second team in NFL history to complete a perfect season. Check out ESPN.com's special area devoted to their pursuit of the '72 Dolphins.
Perfection page
ESPN The Mag:
Bill Belichick is ruthless, demanding and divisive. But the man on the Pats' sideline is carrying on a star-spangled tradition that stretches back more than 100 years.
Tom Farrey
Hashmarks blog:
Matt Mosley's Hashmarks is your one-stop source for news, notes, anecdotes and more about the 2007 playoffs. Blog
ESPN.com NFL Playoffs Content Archive
- Sunday, Jan. 20
- Wojciechowski: Whatever it takes, Patriots win
- Pasquarelli: Patriots offense shows it can grind out a win
- Pasquarelli: Chargers squander red-zone opportunities
- Friday, Jan. 18
- Scouts Inc. Animated plays show signature moves
- Thursday, Jan. 17
- Scouts Inc.: Pats aren't invincible, but they're close
- Horton: Notes from the film room
- Williamson: Chargers vs. Patriots - Round 2
- Sunday Countdown online: Your weekly NFL guide
- Conference Championships: Numbers Crunching
- Wickersham: Turner's position impossible
- Wednesday, Jan. 16
- Joyner: Chargers' Rivers still not among the elite
- Ten things to know about cold-weather football
- Scouts Inc. Secondary concerns
- There are chilling memories of '81 AFC title game
- Tuesday, Jan. 15
- Pasquarelli: Pick your Pats poison
- Scouts Inc. AFC Championship Game tale of the tape
- Monday, Jan. 14
- AccuScore simulation: Pats will prevail over Chargers
- Sunday, Jan. 13
- Pasquarelli: First look at Chargers-Pats AFC title game
- Wojciechowski: No way the Chargers beat the Pats, right?!
- Sando: Divisional observations (Sunday)
- Williamson: Early look at three matchups to watch in AFC title game
- Saturday, Jan. 12
- Pasquarelli: Too many weapons
- Last Call: Wrapping up divisional playoff Saturday
- Mosley: Observation Deck
- Friday, Jan. 11
- Pasquarelli: Faulk among under-the-radar contributors
- Pasquarelli: Kiffin on Falcons' radar
- ESPN The Magazine: Made in America
- Garber: Brady, Manning masters of a lost art
- Tuesday, Jan. 8
- Scouts Inc. ranks the playoff teams
- Scouts Inc. updated coach rankings
- Scouts Inc. QB rankings
- Scouts Inc. RB rankings
- Scouts Inc. Receiver rankings
- Scouts Inc. OL rankings
- Scouts Inc. DL rankings
- Scouts Inc. DB rankings
- Scouts Inc. LB rankings
- Scouts Inc. special teams rankings
Accuscore Projections
Complete trend data | NFL Projections 
Team Averages
| TEAM OFFENSE | TM | PER GAME AVERAGE |
| Total Yards | LAC | |
| NE | | |
| Yards Passing | LAC | |
| NE | | |
| Yards Rushing | LAC | |
| NE | | |
| TEAM DEFENSE | TM | PER GAME AVERAGE |
| Yards Allowed | LAC | |
| NE | | |
| Pass Yds Allowed | LAC | |
| NE | | |
| Rush Yds Allowed | LAC | |
| NE | |
Gameday Matchup
| W | L | T | PF | PA | DIV | CON | |
| LAC | 11 | 5 | 0 | 25.8 | 18 | 5-1-0 | 9-3-0 |
| NE | 16 | 0 | 0 | 36.8 | 17 | 6-0-0 | 12-0-0 |
H2H Matchups (Since 2001)
| New England leads 4-2 | |
| Sep 16, 2007 | @NE 38, LAC 14 |
| Jan 14, 2007 | NE 24, @LAC 21 |
| Oct 2, 2005 | LAC 41, @NE 17 |
| Sep 29, 2002 | @LAC 21, NE 14 |
| Oct 14, 2001 | @NE 29, LAC 26 |
