Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff

Raise your hand if you saw this one coming. Didn't think so.

I mean, the signs were there.The Patriots played an emotional game against the Jets last week, determined to show the world they were still a legit contender even without Tom Brady. So a letdown at home, against a winless team, was certainly in the offing. I even took the Dolphins and the 12 1/2 ponts, figuring on a Patriots win with it being touch and go on the cover.

But this? A blowout? Uh-uh! Never saw it coming.

So where to now? Well, the bye week for starters. But I mean long-term. What we feared would happen without Brady is now reality. The Pats are just another team, beatable no matter who they face. Oh sure, Bill Belichick and the boys always preached the "any given Sunday" mantra, but we knew better. The Miami Dolphins....THE MIAMI DOLPHINS?...were not supposed to come into Foxboro and end New England's 22-game regular season winning streak, even if they were the last team to knock the Pats off.

Two more things: Once a quitter...always a quitter! By the time this Brady-less season is finished, people are going to wish Randy Moss had never worn the Flying Elvis helmet. At least Asante Samuel deserved his money. When the Patriots need him most, Moss is going to disappear and sulk his way through 2008 because Matt Cassel can't help him put up guady numbers. That's his history. Today's performance tells us its likely to be his future, too.

Finally, can you guess which moron inserted Ronnie Brown into not one, but two fantasy football lineups on Sunday morning, only to change his mind at 12:50pm after reading that Darren McFadden was going to start for the Raiders this afternoon in Buffalo?

Go ahead, take a wild guess!!!!!!!!!!!!!