... me that a Patriots team, minus Tom Brady, could win eleven games, then just miss the playoffs to the division champion Dolphins, I would have called you crazy, perhaps insane, and definitely dreaming.

But those dreams came true, in nightmare variety, when Brady went down in the first quarter of the first game. It almost became a Cinderella story for Matt Cassel, but it just wasn't meant to be.

But that was then, and as I'm sure you're well aware, this is 2009, not 2008.  Tom Brady's back, Matt Cassel has moved on to the redder pastures of Arrowhead, and the Patriots are again ready to make a run at the Super Bowl.

That's brings us to...

 

PREDICTION NUMBER ONE: The New Eng...

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