YouBeQB: From the "That Can't Be Right, Can It?" File:

I know that there have been countless people in the media tripping over themselves to slobber all over the 2007 Patriots, and far be it from me to continue that trend (yes, you are right by the way - by counting myself as a member of the media, I'm probably playing pretty fast-n-loose with the word 'media'. So I might not be an actual media member, but I am a member of the blogosphere).

Anyway, I wasn't ready to anoint the Pats as members of that mythical pantheon of the best offensive teams of all time - units like the 1999-2000 Rams, the 1994 Niners, the 2004 Colts and the 1998 Vikings that exist in some rolled-up, shadowy transom of my mind - tucked away and forgotten about like that phone number you got off that marginally-attractive-but-trampy coed that you hooked up in Cabo during Spring Break some years back, and then promised to call her, even though you knew that would turn into a lie as soon as the Coronas wore off.

"Tom, do you mind if we just get you out of this sweaty jersey? It looks too small for you anyway. What do you wear? A Youth Medium?"

In that same way, I may not have thought much about those old teams in a while, but I certainly was not ready to count the Pats as their equals.

Good thing, too, because now that I see this, the Pats seem to be better than ALL of those teams. Think I'm hitting the Coronas too hard right now? Here's some proof:

Did you know that the 2007 Patriots scored a TD on 43% of their offensive possessions this season? That's more ridiculous than the new "American Gladiators".

To put that into perspective, that insane 2000 Rams team scored a TD on only 35% of its possessions. The 2004 Colts (the team on which Peyton Manning tossed a then-record 49 TD passes) got in the end zone less than 37% of the time.

I don't love the Patriots, and I really can't stand those sweatshirts that Bill Belichick cuts the sleeves off of, but one has to admire their efficiency.