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November 27, 2009

Tom Brady pulled off quite the comeback in the Patriots win over Buffalo Monday night. Is the star QB back to his old self?

Super Bowl XLIV, here we come!
26%
Can’t tell yet. One game (make that one quarter) does not a season make.
63%
With Matt Cassel, it wouldn’t have been close.
11%

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One Quarter?

The Patriots's win was not so much a factor of their own stellar performance (even their first touchdown was dubious, had it been officially reviewed). Rather they won because the Bills choked in the final quarter and made a series of bad decisions. Had the Bills performed average in that last quarter, simply spending down the clock, and had not made some key blunders, the Patriots would not likely be celebrating a win. Does this make it less of a win? No. The Patriots won the game fairly. But it does have implications if you're trying to evaluate their performance and extrapolate to predict the rest of their season. So I vote "Can't tell yet." But as they say, a win is a win is a...

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