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"We're not trying to win 42-28," the quarterback said recently on Boston radio station WEEI. "We're trying to kill teams. We're trying to blow them out if we can."
(Ricky Carioti - The Post)
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"I anticipate more games like this, to tell you the truth," Bruschi said in the Patriots' locker room after the Eagles game. "Teams play their best football coming down the stretch. Take [the Bills game]. Is it gonna be like that every week? I doubt it. I highly doubt it. We're gonna be in some battles."
[an error occurred while processing this directive]The Patriots are still on pace to shatter the NFL's single-season scoring record. Brady is on course to break the one-year record for touchdown passes, and Moss the mark for touchdown catches.
"It's the best offense I've ever seen," Madden said. "Tom Brady is playing the position of quarterback right now better than I've ever seen anyone ever play it in my history. Where they go as the best team, I think offensively they're right there."
The defense, Madden said, doesn't rank among the all-time greats, but it might not matter.
Belichick would have the option of sitting down Brady, Moss and other top players in the regular season finale if the Patriots have home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs already clinched. Yet Belichick has given little indication that he intends to let up under any circumstances this season.
Until the near misses by the Eagles and Ravens, the NFL season had a feel of inevitability to it. That usually wouldn't be good for interest level and television ratings. But ratings for the Patriots have soared and NBC producer Fred Gaudelli said viewers have a fascination with greatness, as when fans have tuned in to watch golfer Tiger Woods or basketball legend Michael Jordan no matter the score.
"They make it pretty entertaining," Gaudelli said, "and I think Belichick in his own way makes it entertaining because of the way he just refuses to acknowledge any of it."
