NE Patriots play in their 6th, and win their 4th, Super Bowl in the "Brady/Belichik" era. it will be either Patriots vs Seahawks (my personal preference) or Patriots vs 49ers in the Super Bowl.
nobody is knocking Brady out of the playoffs this year, not Baltimore, not San Diego, and certainly not Peyton Manning, who can't even beat Brady when Tom spots him 24 points out of the gate.
i hate to tell you, but it's parade time in beantown again.
If the Patriots were to win, it would be that no one knocked Belicheck out of the playoffs, rather than Brady. This year Belicheck is writing an entirely new manual on winning in the NFL with spare parts.