Shaughnessey is a Boston homer who is already comparing this year's Patriots team to 2007 after 2 meaningless pre-season games.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/dan_shaughnessy/08/21/belichick.patriots/index.html?sct=nfl_wr_a2

While the Patriots may or may not be a good/great team, Dan Shaughnessy often writes with tongue firmly planted in his cheek.

Bellichick seems to be finally realizing he needs to get his defense back to championhip level to win another Super Bowl. Hopefully by the time he does, Brady will be gone, playing Mr. Mom to Giselle.

on the same level as the offense.

I do believe BB has done some major work to improve a proactive defense to replace his reactive defense.

Only the season will tell whether it was sufficient.

Any ways Tom needs to keep playing and getting more endorsements as Gisele is currently the major money maker in the family.

That's how many years it has been since each team won the Super Bowl.

...................after the Miami opener!
Til then, nothing but speculation!

Until the final game of the season.  The key to the G-men beating them?  Pressure on Brady...make hitting and pressuring him the primary focus of your game plan on defense.  The Jets deployed a similar scheme in the play-offs last year after getting smoked by them during the regular season, and wasting their time on his supporting cast ...worked again!