You summarized my thoughts very well. While I will root for the team, I agree with Foxboro Mike that there is no tangible advantages we can point to. 
It is a fair guess that: 
- NE will blitz up the middle 
- Brady will continue with his dinking and dunking 
- We will do a fair job against the run 
- We will probably run well till we get into NE 30 after which we can neither advance nor kick a field goal. If we ever get close to sniffing distance of the 30, BB will bring his big guns to stall us there.  
  
Basically we will lose and I predict the score to be 23-6.