All you need to know about the Patriots game against the Dolphins is that it was 42-7 at the half. Read that again. The Patriots have become that dominant high school football team that simply rolls over the competition. Have you ever seen an NFL team look this dominant through seven games?
Brady tossed a career-high six touchdowns: two to Moss, two to Welker (former Dolphin), one to Stallworth and one to Kyle Brady. The two Moss touchdowns (giving him 10 on the season) will be what people remember from this cake-walk. They were both jump balls. Brady just threw it up there while Moss outjumped/outmaneuvered multiple Miami DB's. Just crazy. Guess nobody should have doubted Moss. I think it's safe to say he still has something left in the tank. Art Shell saying he doesn't have the legs and skills anymore will go down as one of the great errors in judgment in recent memory. Still the funniest play of the game had to be the kick-off after Miami scored its first TD. They did a short kick which Willie Andrews promptly returned 70 yards for a score.
Matt Cassell actually saw the field in the fourth but promptly threw a pick-6 to Jason Taylor. Tom Brady went in one last time and drove the Pats quickly down the field. In case you had forgotten how unstoppable this team was. Brady has 27 touchdowns in seven games. His career-high for a season is 28. You had to feel bad for the Dolphins in this one; Trent Green is out for the rest of the season (maybe forever) and yesterday Ronnie Brown (their only offensive threat) tore his ACL. He's out for the rest of the season. So New England is not only beating teams, they're taking out players.
The defense gave up some garbage time touchdowns but who could blame them for a little lapse in the second half? They knew it was over. Maroney made a short cameo: carrying it six times in the first half before never seeing the field again. Who knows if he was pulled because of the groin injury or maybe it was just saving him from getting hurt when the game was decided. Hopefully Lawrence is alright since Morris (broken collarbone) seems to be out for a while longer and Faulk, Evans and Eckel cannot carry the load. When the weather starts getting bad, the Pats will need some semblance of a running game to grind the clock in playoff games. But that's something to worry about for another day. Let's bask in this win a little longer. The Redskins come into Foxboro on Sunday in what could be a decent game. The Skins have a good defense, up and coming QB and nice running backs. Unfortunately, their coach is 89-year old Joe Gibbs.
The Colts held serve against the Jaguars tonight so now it's only two weeks until the expected showdown on unbeaten teams: Pats at Colts. ESPN is already creaming itself over that one.
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