I think the biggest problem with the Patriots is that they got caught (after all, if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'). Yea every other team does it, but no other team gets caught. Perhaps because they don't send a guy with a camera to the other team's sideline. Really, Belichick? You're hailed to be one of the greatest and most brilliant coaches in the history of the game and that's your spy tactic? I'm very disappointed. I expected some sort of fancy trickery or magicking from you. Like something it would take two whole episodes for the Scooby Doo gang to solve. You'd lead them on a merry chase leaving false trails and fake clues to throw them off the scent and at the end they'd finally catch the suspect in a ghost house or pirate ship and take the mask off the guy with the camera and....GASP! It's old man Belichick! It was him all along! So that's how the dirty old hoodie tied in with the rest of the clues.
But no. You instead employ the worst spy ever who wears his Patriots clearance badge on the fricking Jets' sideline while he's taping. Brilliant. Scrappy Doo coulda solved that one alone, without needing even the half-assed, pot induced, munchie driven bumbling of Shaggy and Scooby. So shame I say! Shame on Belichick. Not for cheating, but for being so easily caught.
As for the OL importance, I think it's tremendously important to a QB's success. That's why Brady is so good every year even when he doesn't have good WR. However, I think Peyton is a poor example to use. He is a wizard after all. You can put Peyton in Cleveland and he'd still have some modicum of success, though not as great. And I think alot of it has to do with the offensive coordinator as well as talent (look what Texas is doing so far this season with not much talent that rates above average by NFL standards). Also, I think there are times when horrid defense makes an OL look way better. For example I'm sure nobody believes Cleveland's line is as good as it looked against the Bengals (sorry Bert, but that defense is craptastic - to cheer you up though, here's a funny joke I heard on the radio: What do you call a drug ring in Cincy? A huddle!). In the end, I think probably a good QB can compensate for an average OL whereas the alternate is not necessarily true. This is why Baltimore won't win another Super Bowl with McNair under center and why Chicago will be lucky to make it to the Championship game again. Both teams have stellar OLs but not so great QBs. Plus God hates Brian Urlacher.
