[Erick Estrada]

Let's not overlook that Brady didn't look that great last night. He's 40 and father time can creep up very quickly. He was off on several passes that he normall completes and outside of one really good deep ball in the first half the rest of his deep balls really hung up in the air. I'm not saying for a moment that he's going to regress to junk but in his first game of this season he's already put up a performance worse than his worst performance last season. I'm just not sure that an average Brady is going to be good enough to match last season's success. The Broncos had one of the all time great defenses to carry a declining Manning and while I'm sure this defense will improve it's not close to that Broncos defense of a few years back. Don't discount the loss of Edelman as a lot of people feel he is a better route runner than Welker and some feel maybe the best ever option route runner. If anyone can figure it out I'm sure it's Belichick but he definitely has his work cut out for him this season.