New England is the best coached team in the league and Bill Belichick and staff proved their prowess this Sunday.  Completely abandoning the adage 'you need to run the football in order to set up the passing game' they simply handed the keys to Tom Brady and let him pick apart a helpless Minnesota pass defense.
The author softens up Chicago's schedule, and rightfully so. Yet he fails to mention that New England has two wins against the same Buffalo team that Chicago blew out, a paper tiger Dolphins club and an improving but very average Jets team.  
The NFL is great because of its parody.  Each Conference has a few teams every season that stick out a bit but by and large once the playoffs begin all bets are off.  The Patriots are good, but are they better than the Colts, Broncos or Chargers?  For that matter, the Bears, Giants and Falcons?  I don't know, but could we please refrain from organizing the Super Bowl Parade until after Thanksgiving at least?

...hopping on the bandwaggon for me. I still think calling them a dynasty is a sham, beacuse my standards of a dynasty are that you AT LEAST make the playoffs every year of it (people forget that between Superbowls #1 and #2 they went 7-9 and missed the playoffs).

This is not quite the AFC title game, but this will go a very long way in who wins home field in the AFC. Peyton Manning has had that one house of horrors in New England, he has to prove he can win there in order to get over that hump.

I might be a bitter Jets fan, but the whole dynasty thing just sickens me, beacuse they aren't a true dynasty.

Good Information.  A month or so ago I wrote a column predicting Laurence Maroney is going to be the next big thing in the NFL.  He has burst on to the scene and he has been arguably the best offensive rookie of the year so far.  Look for things to only get better for him.  he is a force.  Could you imagine Maroney and Marion Barber III of the Dallas Cowboys playing together as a 1-2 punch in college.  Well, they did.  Minnesota Gophers.  I knew both of them would be beasts.

I don't care that Seattle didn't have SA. Whenever you beat last year's conference champions by 31, you're a pretty good team. You point out that they have beat up on some bottom feeders, but so have the Patriots. Both teams have played to their schedule.
I'd like to see the Bears face either the Colts or Pats but that won't happen unless they reach the Super Bowl. These next two weeks will show us a lot about both teams.