[Porsche-O-Phile]

The key is that the Patriots are a TEAM. Brady's performance yesterday was blah at best. They still won. It's because they don't over-rely on any one (or two, or three) individuals. If one person (or a few) is out due to injuries, coverage, a bad day, whatever, there are many other layers of redundancy built-in.

Brady? Mediocre yesterday. Moss? Pretty much a non-factor. Welker? Good, but fairly contained for most of the game. They still won.

On the other side consider the Chargers - without L.T., they're done. They do have other good players, but nothing the defense can't contain easily enough, as was demonstrated.

Lesson: Build a TEAM of good players, not a collection of one or two superstars and a bunch of "other", mediocre guys.