Why is everyone so scared of the Patriots?

Great Dane said

With all due respect we played the Bucs. Tampa is not a good team and their defense is suspect. The Pats dominanted both the Colts and Jets of lately and Wes Welker is a top 5 WR in the NFL. There are few teams that pressure defenses to defend the whold field. The Pats (and Saints) are among them. This will be very, very tough. I think both the Colts and Saints could be "upset" this weekend

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I love how this myth that the Pats dominated the game has grown to where people actually belive it now.

The Colts did NOT have one "gimme" score from either their defense or their ST's. Every score was achieved by their offense driving on the Pats defense. There's no doubt the Pats should have won, but the idea that the Pats dominated the game it ridiculous. Below are the scoring drives the Colts had to score.....does it look like they had issues maintaining drives and scoring TD's? You decide.

1st scoring drive - 90 yards - outcome TD
2nd scoring drive - 80 yards - outcome TD
3rd scoring drive - 79 yards - outcome TD
4th scoring drive - 79 yards - outcome TD
5th scoring drive - 29 yards - outcome TD

Peyton Manning - 320+ yards, 4 TD's
Rushing - 90+ yards, 1 TD, 5.1 YPC

So, not only did the Pats give up numerous crazy long drives, they allowed TD's instead of FG's.

The Pats did not dominate the Colts in any way, shape or form.