Everyone on this Patriots team believes they can win, and they all seem to be clinging to the notion that hard work eventually pays off. So here we are, in a three-way division knot and with a big Jets game on the horizon, and each fan will have to determine for themselves how much faith they put in hard work. My faith in Belichick has been rattled, but my faith in Brady will never be called into question. Hard work has its merits, but there is such a thing as perfect ruthlessness, and I’ll take that any day of the week. Because whether he’s wearing #10 for Michigan or #12 for New England, Brady is the single most dangerous and unmerciful person to ever lay fingers on a football. This is a bad, bad man, and every week he plays for us. So when you look at it that way, 5-3 doesn’t sound so bad.
