People always ask me, what’s the difference between today’s Patriots and when we faced them in 2007, when they had the most explosive offense until this year’s Denver Broncos,” former New York Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce told ESPN’s Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic on Wednesday. “They had no running game. We didn’t fear their running game. We dared them to try and run the football on us. But you imagine Tom Brady with a 245-, 250-pound back running downhill? That’s dangerous. You give that kind of quarterback a two-way option … when they had the most success in [Brady’s] career as a Patriot — I’m talking about winning championships — it was all about the running game. You remember Corey Dillon. That big back, that factor where when he drops into play-action and throws the ball over the top … now, you’re saying, ‘Wow — how difficult is this? What do we do?