Pats back?

Within the last year, I posted a blog about how the New England Patriots weren't what they used to be when the Brady and Belichick machine won Super Bowls like it was their job -- oh wait. It was during a Monday Night Football game against the eventual Super Bowl-champion New Orleans Saints.

I said how they weren't the same, but how they still stood a chance. Later that season, against the Baltimore Ravens in Foxboro, the game ended seconds after the opening kickoff -- a touchdown run back. Clearly they didn't stand a chance last year, but this year they do.

They just trounced the Miami Dolphins, 41-14, and they did it with such style and grace. A single player, safety Patrick Chung, a 23-year-old who is actually younger than me, blocked two field goals and returned an interception for a touchdown. For the first time in league history a team (Patriots) scored a touchdown five different ways -- on the ground, in the air, pick-six, kickoff return and blocked FG return.

That's impressive.

Bill Belichick showed emotion. He was smiling, laughing even, on the sidelines as the clock ticked down. As the two division rivals met at midfield, the camera looked up at Tom Brady.

"That is a man on a mission," said Mike Tirico.

"And I'd hate to get in his way," John Gruden responded.

Belichick drafted three Florida Gators and they're all starting for his defense. Like I said in my last blog, Brady, Belichick and Moss. They're good, and now with an injenction of youth, I fear the possibilities that they may be better than they were as Super Bowl-winning addicts.

I'm just saying.