[QUOTE=Fezzik;34792]They win in Foxboro, they will be laying the wood to the NFC bigtime.[/QUOTE]
In other words, if NE is upset in the championship game, the team that beats them will be made too big of a favorite because "they must be even better than the Patriots to have beaten them." So even if it's Pittsburgh or NYJ, they'd be a 6-pt favorite because they'd be overvalued.