Since the Pats are probably going to go 19-0 this season, we decided it would be fun to start a little segment every Monday which features quotes from around the country of everybody talking about how great we are.    And the best part about it is that you know everybody hates us so much.  (Just read this crybaby from Yahoo) The Pats are like a bully that takes your lunch money every day and when you finally get the courage to stand up and complain they just punch you in the face and send you to the hospital.  It’s almost like we’re the new Raiders only we’re better than the Raiders ever were.   I love it.   In fact I may write a letter to NFL Films to see if they can come up with a version of Autumn Wind for the Pats.   If they ever produced something like this for us it would be the best day of my life.  I could die tomorrow and I’d be happy.

Anyway, my favorite part of last night was the good cop, bad cop routine that Bob Kraft played.  He publicly blathered on and on about how disappointed he was about the whole cheating thing and how it would never happen again.  Meanwhile he leaked the news that he signed Belichick to like a 90 year extension.  In other words, FU Roger Goodell. 

Onto the quotes.   

"I saw what some of the other players [around the league] said. You had all these doubts and all these hypotheticals," said an emotional Tedy Bruschi after the game. "I got a hypothetical for you. Let's get all the players that played with us and bring them back and let's get all the players that you had on those teams and let's play again. We would win again. Period."

"Yeah, that's probably what bothered me the most - something like this happens and then all of the sudden we're less of a team," said Bruschi. "What did you see out there tonight? That's how we are."

"This might be the most satisfying win of all," said an emotional Tedy Bruschi. "I've never been in a situation where people were doubting us, our integrity. I care about that logo, as much as anyone in here. And I care about how we're perceived. What we do is win football games. What we did tonight speaks volumes about who we are."

"He's probably the best coach in the history of the NFL," Brady said of Belichick.

(On how the insinuations that what this team has accomplished is now tarnished made him feel personally)

Like I said, there's just too many battles to fight. I know the truth and I know what I believe, and that's all that's really important. Everyone who's been around here knows that and hopefully everyone who follows us realizes that. But if you don't, then who really cares? Because it's been (proven) for seven years. We've been proving to people for seven years and it's been the same thing. We're not changing what we do. We're going out there and we're trying to go out and execute the best that we can. We're playing a football team like San Diego, who we struggled with so much last year. And we go out and we had a great game plan and we went out and executed it. I don't think we executed it perfectly. There's plenty of things we need to improve - the turnover cost us points, we get the ball on the 25 yard line in the first quarter, no points. There's plenty of things that we need to improve, and that's why we're going to come in and work tomorrow.

“That was an old-fashioned butt-whupping,” center Nick Hardwick said. “We haven't been embarrassed like that in a couple years.”

“I don't remember the last time I felt like this,” LaDainian Tomlinson said.

“We went through a lot this week, but we blocked it out,” Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi said. “To come out and win this game after hearing some of the things that were said about our team . . . this victory was for all Patriots teams past and present.”

"I haven't been here the longest, but I've been around long enough … [and] I know this much: You don't wave a red flag in front of this team," said Rosevelt Colvin, who finished with five tackles, two sacks, two forced fumbles, one interception and a pass defensed. "This is a very proud bunch of men in here. I think all this week forced us to do was focus even harder. People outside this locker room kept talking about distractions. Did you see a distracted team out there tonight?"

"They just jumped on us like a spider monkey," San Diego fullback Lorenzo Neal said. "I don't care how you look at it, they just played better than us."