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In a Sunday of upsets, Willie managed to dodge the obvious picks and come up with his best Sunday so far at 10-2 while Adam went 9-3. But as I had said previously in the day, 7 wins was going to be a good Sunday- and it was for nine members of the Adultfyi football pool.
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And all of a sudden New Orleans, shows up playing football and they upset Seattle while Kansas City takes it to Cincinnati. And almost everyone in the pool had Chicago over Minnesota which, of course, didn't go that way. Those were three of the most obvious losses for the day.
But in the game nearly everyone saw coming, the New England Patriots trounced the Dallas Cowboys.
IRVING, Tex. [NY Daily News]- Maybe it will change in a few weeks when the Patriots visit the Colts, but for now, they're just too good.
The previously unbeaten Cowboys, the best the NFC has to offer, did a lot of good stuff yesterday and still got steamrolled. At the end of the day, they were just another team that couldn't stop the unstoppable Pats.
If this was a Super Bowl preview, the parties better be darn good that day because the game may be over quickly. Yesterday's final score was 48-27, thanks to an aerial display not even Grucci could have choreographed.
Randy Moss, the former bad boy who now sings happily in Bill Belichick's choir, put it this way when asked if there was any defense that could slow down Tom Brady and his offense:
"I don't want to say yes and I don't want to say no," Moss said. "I'm not saying we're unstoppable, but we work hard at what we do, so we expect good things."
Cornerback Ellis Hobbs, who is tested more in practice than he ever is in a game, summed up the dilemma every New England opponent must face:
"One-on-one coverage is not a good defense. Cover 2? Might not be a good defense. Cover 5? Might not be a good defense. You don't know what to do, man."
The Cowboys (5-1) didn't. It was fish in a barrel for Brady against a suspect secondary as he kept finding favorable matchups everywhere, completing 31 of 46 passes for 388 yards, even without much of a running game. His five TD passes were a career high and it marked the first time anyone has thrown at least three in each of the first six games of the season.
Moss had six catches for 59 yards and a TD and had a spectacular 43-yard TD catch overturned - and he was only the Pats' third-best receiver. Donte' Stallworth had seven catches for 136 yards and a TD and possession receiver Wes Welker drove the Cowboys crazy with 11 receptions for 124 yards and two TDs.
"If Peyton Manning has his wide receivers, why can't Tom have his?" Moss said. "Now that Tom has his, we'll see."
The Patriots (6-0) have scored at least 34 points in every game this year and with 21 TD passes in six games, Brady is on pace to smash Manning's record of 49 TD passes in a single season.
"I haven't thought about it all. I don't set my goals like that," Brady said. "All those individual records ... they're all based on all the opportunities you get. Today, we really made the plays when we needed to. That's what I worry about."
The Cowboys' only lead of the day, 24-21, came after their first series of the third quarter when they got churning behind Julius Jones' running and marched 74 yards to an eight-yard TD pass from Tony Romo to Patrick Crayton.
But it looked as though the Pats could put together a drive anytime they needed one and they immediately responded by moving 77 yards in 10 plays. Brady found former Jets tight end Kyle Brady for the 1-yard TD.
The Pats tacked on a field goal after Dallas went three and out. Then they owned the fourth quarter, outscoring the Cowboys 17-3. At halftime, Belichick had told his team Dallas was the best second-half team in the league.
Typically, the Patriots tried to appear humble after their latest romp, but the act is hard to buy. They sounded as though it was the Cowboys who were building this game up, not them.
"Our key is we can keep things in perspective," defensive back Rodney Harrison said. "I don't think we look at the Cowboys as any different than any other opponent. If they wanted to build it up as a Super Bowl game, that's on them. For us, it was just another game."
"There was a lot of hype going into this week and still Coach Belichick isn't going to let us get too ahead of ourselves," Moss said. "We can score 48 points and he's still going to lay a couple of lashes on us."
"The reality is it's early in the season," Brady said. "The season doesn't really start until after Thanksgiving anyway. We're trying to win as many of these games as we can."
With the Jets 1-5, the Bills 1-4 and the Dolphins 0-6, it may not be long before the Patriots clinch the AFC East - and it's not even Halloween.
"They are that good," Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said.
