My Pats: Lying Low or Faded Glory?

In which I reveal my deepest, darkest fear: what if the Super Bowl loss was, in fact, the beginning of the end?

By Mark Starr | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Sep 4, 2008 | Updated: 4:46 p.m. ET Sep 4, 2008

Posted By: rjones @ 09/05/2008 8:44:36 AM

Comment: Bill Belichick's team won't have that advantage this year like they've enjoyed throughout the 2000s. Even after Belichick was busted for taping hand-signals last year, it was too late for the other teams to come up with new ones, teach them to the players, and implement them into their games.. So even though he wasn't allowed to tape them from that point on, he was still one step ahead of the other teams and knew what plays they were going to run from all his previous tapings.

This year will be different though. Teams have had the time to incorporated new signals and Belichick will have to guess like everyone else.
Posted By: tugboatteddy @ 09/04/2008 6:13:37 PM

Comment: When the Patriots lost the Superbowl, that was the beginning of their end!! I will never get over the heartbreak of that lose but the Giants played a great game & the Patriots were just plain sloppy almost like they didn't even care. Shame on them but I'm still a Pats fan till the day I die!!