Recovering from yesterday's slaughter

I am still concerned about Wes Welker, so far on patriots.com, nfl.com and Reiss, there are no updates.

One of the members of our Patriots meet-up group here in Tampa pointed out yesterday that we are playing our B-team, yet still managing to be a threat. This is a guy who is a long-time committed fan (he even reminded us all that in 1991, the Patriots won 1 game). In fact, he seemed downright cheerful at the end of the game, unlike the rest of the table. I don't know if I've quite reached this level of acceptance, but it's a valid point.

For anyone talking about trading Tom and keeping Cassel...you're nuts, right? For the most part, Cassel did well, but not great. It's possible that in those conditions, Tom only would have done well. However, we've all seen him be great. More blame, though, still goes on the receivers (particularly Randy Moss) who did not seem capable of holding on to the ball at all.

The post-game quotes were appropriately contrite. Reiss is also reminding us that from here on, the schedule gets easier.