Agreed, but they're definitely no South Florida.

I think the Indy game did it for me (in terms of actually buying into the Pats actually being able to run the table). They were in the house of the enemy, the arguably (at the time) best team in the league, down 10 to the defending SB champs, with a little less than ten minutes to go. Indy had ALL the momentum at that time. New England scores, almost create a turnover, make them punt, and score again. Then they make Manning cough up the ball, game over.

To me, that will be the defining moment of both teams respective seasons. Granted, Indy has been hugely beset by injuries (especially since that game), but that's the breaks. It seems since then that Indy has had the soul sucked out of their team, while the Patriots continue to play pattycake with the opposition.

Things could always change, of course. But right now, it seems to me that the Pats are Tiger Woods circa 2000, and everybody else is just that. Everybody else.