It's A Lock

With the Miami - Pittsburgh game still to be determined (Miami would come to New England if they win this afternoon), Shank's pretty sure the Patriots will be playing the Houston Texans next week. How sure is he? This sure:

Tomato Can Update: Aggregate score of last 4 Pats-Texans games at Gillette: NE 150 - Houston 49. Pats won 27-0 w/out Tom Sept.23 What drama!

— Dan Shaughnessy (@Dan_Shaughnessy) January 7, 2017

Feedback is what you'd expect from such a hot take:

@Dan_Shaughnessy Kind of the point in earning the #1 seed you sad sack.

— KDog(@FastGMan) January 8, 2017

@Dan_Shaughnessy @scottzolak Yawn. This was boring 5 years ago. Time for another idea you can milk for a decade, Shank.

— Andy Johnson 100 (@100Zeus) January 8, 2017

@Dan_Shaughnessy Someone is still bitter that they weren't invited to a breakfast twenty years ago.

— andrew(@adev808) January 8, 2017

@Dan_Shaughnessy @scottzolak Pats can lobby NFL to get better opponents. We can lobby the Globe for better writers. Make everyone happy.

— John Sugrue(@sugruejohn) January 8, 2017

@Dan_Shaughnessy dandid you say this about the Celtics with Bird, since there was 3 teams in the league maybe that could win it? Real ?

— Scott Collins (@ScottyCollins23) January 8, 2017

@Dan_Shaughnessy @scottzolak you are the tomato can of sportswriters

— Mike Doughty (@mdfenway) January 8, 2017