Patriots-Rams: Notes on a 4th Quarter Comeback

A win is a win and that's all you need to know about the NFL in 2008. For years we've heard Bill Belichick preach this mantra, that it's the National Football League and on any given Sunday any team can beat any team. Though I don't think any of us Patriots fans ever really believed it when we had Brady under center. But that was then and this is 2008. In this year's demento season anyone can actually beat anyone (unless you're the Bengals or Lions), and though the Pats have beaten up on some of the bottom feeders, the fact remains they are 5-2 and tied for the lead in the AFC East. Sunday's game against the Rams was a tight battle, the kind that Tom Brady always used to pull out at the end. Well, yesterday Matt Cassel took a page out of Brady's book and sealed his first ever fourth quarter comeback with a pinpoint pass to Kevin Faulk with just under three minutes left. Dare I say it was a Brady-esque performance by Cassel (minus the two picks of course, though they weren't ... (link)