Monday Morning Brady

So many monikers, which one fits best? Tom Terrific? Touchdown Tommy? THE Consummate Champion? Anyone who witnessed the masterpiece that New England's Tom Brady orchestrated on Sunday afternoon at the Georgia Dome versus the Atlanta Falcons could choose any of the above to label the 2-time Super Bowl MVP, who led the Champions to a 31-28 victory.

Brady's performance, which included 350 yards passing, 3 touchdown tosses, and 22-27 passing with only a single blemish (1 INT, which was tipped at the line of scrimmage) to his record. Tommy B was simply amazing, and his effort elevated New England to a 3-2 record, and prevented the Patriots from losing 2 consecutive games for the first time since 2002. This Herculean performance by the Patriots signal caller was just what the doctor ordered for a banged up Patriots squad coming off their most devastating loss in Gillette Stadium history last week at the hands of the San Diego Chargers, 41-17.
Complimenting Brady's fine performance was the superb running of Corey Dillon. Although Dillon had 5 touchdowns coming into Sundays tilt vs. the “Falconies”, the 9 year veteran really had yet to get the running game going. On Sunday "Clock-Killin" recorded 23 rushes for 106 yards (to the glee of Dillon fantasy owners) and an additional 13 yards on 2 receptions.

On the final drive of the game for New England, Brady put the Patriots in position for yet another Adam Vinatieri game-winning field-goal. After a 30 yard kickoff return by Bethel Johnson, the Patriots setup shop on their 36 yard-line with 3:52 remaining in the contest. Brady, in classic Brady fashion, drove New England down the field 53 yards in 12 plays to setup the 29 yard game-winner by Vinatieri with only 20 ticks left on the clock.

"The champs", (the only ones left, unfortunately, for Bostonist to claim), are through the first 5 games of arguably the most rigorous schedule the NFL has put together for a team in the past 10 seasons. New England has faced, in their last four games, the 2004 division champions from the NFC South (Atlanta), AFC West (San Diego), AFC North (Pittsburgh), and a Carolina team that many experts have touted to be a Super Bowl contender this season. And, the Pats still have to go into Denver next week before they play their first divisional opponent. Bostonist will be watching.

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Article contributed by Benjamin June