Do you mean that Oakland got a bye yesterday, too?

Plus they'll probably be cheating again.

Sex with animals? There's no time, man!

How about we call that "justice" after the disgrace that was the trumped up Deflategate charges and the 4 game suspension ?

Yeah, my mistake, the game was at Foxborough. Memory is a tricky thing.

That 45-3 win over the Jets was at Gillette Stadium BTW. They lost to the Jets at the Meadowlands in 2010.
But yeah, anything can happen in the playoffs, you can never be sure of anything. The Texans or the Dolphins could beat the Pats, it's unlikely but the Pats will have to take either team seriously, which I'm sure they will.
Overall I would be very surprised if anyone but the Pats wins the AFC this year.

The Patriots beat the Jets 45-3 on the road in 2010, then crapped the bed against them in the divisional round a month later. No playoff game is a foregone conclusion.
That said, it's encouraging that last time they met (way back in Week 3) the Texans didn't score a point and that tough Houston defense (and it is tough) didn't force a single turnover against Brissett & Co.
But it was a long time ago and the Patriots will still need to take the Texans more seriously than you are taking them here.

I think most people had penciled them into the conference championship game a while ago. But you apparently needed to make sure Houston eliminated the high powered Connor Cook led Oakland offense.

Ah yes, that was during the 2010 postseason. The Pats were lined up to get the Jets and Steelers at home, so I was actually puffing my chest about getting three bye weeks. How do you lose to Mark F^ckin Sanchez in a playoff game?
Actually, I will forever be bitter toward Bill O'Brien for that one. Total system failure on offense to make the proper adjustments to counter the Jets' defense throughout the entire game. It probably hurt the Patriots that they crushed the Jets a few weeks earlier, because they basically tried to do the same things again and the Jets were ready. F^ck you, Bill O'Brien.
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Not to dredge up old missteps( OK,
to
dredge up old missteps), but I remember that one year when you said the Pats had two bye weeks only to see them lose their first game. It was no "Red Sox move into their new, season long home" but still
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too

As a Patriots fan, I never think any game is an easy win.

Remember how they had 2 bye weeks this year against a playoff team - one of them with no Tom Brady? lolol
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Or Dolphins
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D'oh.. well, I would like to believe the Texans would have a good shot with their top defense, but on the road in New England they'll be lucky to move the ball themselves 250 yards all day. I don't see Miami doing much either of they somehow manage to upset thy Steelers. Lame. I would really like to see the Dolphins pull off some miracle the next two weeks.

It doesn't look like you understood what the OP meant.
He meant that the Texans are easy to beat so it's like having another bye week.
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They had one bye-week like everyone else, they earned the right to skip the first round of the playoffs.