A cautionary note to New England sports fans: the Red Sox also looked pretty good at the beginning of the season.

That said... it's refreshing that the Patriots' performance yesterday has left the sports-radio talk jocks with nothing to complain about. So they're complaining about that. And John Madden. And Manny Ramirez's failure to even jog toward first base after hitting a ground ball in the Red Sox' irrelevant game with Tampa Bay (in a game where he also hit a home run, and the Red Sox still won).

Gee, do you think they've got a formula?