Get used to it
You reap what you sew. If your GM hadn't used his role on the competition committee to stack the rules in favor of high octane passing attacks I'm sure the Patriots would have been content grinding out close games and everyone that wasn't a Pats fan could continue to write Brady off as a boring system only guy. I prefer a more well balanced running attack that sets up the pass but I have to admit I sure enjoyed watching Brady, Moss and Welker rack up the numbers this year. Just glad they got all the milestones out of the way and can get back to playing serious football when it counts.
I don't want to turn this into anything about Colts vs. Patriots or anything like that. Remember, I, as a Colts fan, started the thread...
That having been said, Bill Polian, as a member of the competition committee, played a role in the long-standing rules regarding defensive holding and illegal contact down the field being enforced, when they hadn't been for several seasons. The rules are the rules; when they're not being enforced and your team suffers because of it, are you supposed to eat your words? What would want your team to do?
Secondly, I have NEVER called Tom Brady a system quarterback. I have repeatedly said that I would have voted for Tom Brady to win the MVP award last season, over LaDanian Tomlinson and Peyton Manning. I have, however, scoffed at the idea that he's better than Peyton Manning (and, by extension, guys like Dan Marino who never won a Super Bowl) because he played on a superior
team that won three Super Bowls. But enough about that.
My point is simply that I don't like the Patriots for various reasons, and because I am a Colts fan, I hated to see Peyton Manning's records broken (touchdowns, passer rating [edit: upon further investigation, he did NOT wind up breaking Manning's 2004 record of 121.1 passer rating for a season; he came in second all-time at 117.2), especially by his arch-nemesis, Tom Brady. Congratulations all the same, but I hate seeing it done by the Patriots.
