What does Denver have to lose? Squeaked into the playoffs with a neutral record 8-8, in the worst division in football this year. We are lucky to be here, period. Like I've said over and again, as well as some of the other Denver fans in this thread, we are just enjoying the crazy train and anything beyond this point is icing on the cake.
Pats on the other hand have a winning record, are the first seed, and definitely have expectations of an AFC championship game at the very least. Add into the fact that have been knocked out early in the last few years, and you can see that they are the team that has expectations to meet.
I'm not trying to pull one over on you, it's just easy to lose sight of the fact that the Pats are not underdogs in this game by any means.