Divisional weekend-wrap

After an interesting and in some ways exciting divisional weekend, we can now begin to get set for conference championship games.  This week the AFC games went, pretty much as we though they would and the NFC games provided most of the fireworks.  In the AFC the home teams won and they were the better teams, but in the NFC only one of the two home teams that were playing won, maybe the bye week isn't all it's cracked up to be.
In the first game the New Orleans Saints who are not the same team on the road that they are at home in their dome, went down to the wire but lost to the San Francisco 49ers.  for the most part both of these teams traded shots for about 3 and a half quarters. when Drew Brees drove his team down the field for the tying touchdown he left too much time on the clock for Alex smith.  The Saints got caught with the wrong coverage, near the 49er end zone and Alex smith threw for the win.  John Harbaugh has brought confidence back to San Francisco, and Alex Smith after going through 7 defensive coordinators has found a coach who has confidence in him.  In the night cap the New England Patriots offenese proved to much for Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos.  If you're the Patriots, you don't need a great defense if it's going to be on the sideline while your offense scores 40+ points in 30+ minutes.            
On Sunday the Houston Texans rookie quarterback, T.J Yates made some mistakes which cost his team the game against the Baltimore Ravens.  The Ravens team is not stellar but they have some playmakers on that team.  Houston will be back they have a rookie quarterback who grew up a lot in his last 7 starts.  The New York Giants came out and beat the heavily favored Green Bay Packers.  Eli Manning has achieved elite status, I think its safe to say now.  Eli connected with his receiving core (Hakeem Nicks, Mario Mannigham, and Victor Cruz) (Manningham on a big catch and run and Nicks on a hail mary right before the half) and the defense came up big when it counted.  It helped the Giant cause, that Aaron Rodgers (Packers quarterback) missed a couple of wide open receivers.  The refs did not help as they overturned a fumble call which should have given the Giants the ball and they called a bogus ruffing the passer penalty which extended a Packer drive.                
In one of the Conference Championship games, on Sunday the NY Giants will be in San Francisco the Giants have been installed as a slight underdog but they should have won earlier in the season, so us fans can be confident.  In the AFC the Baltimore Ravens will be in Foxboro to face the Patriots, the Ravens are the more complete team but will they be able to stop the Patriots offense.