as i said before the patriots did blow the doors off of that game early on and you can't really say as a coach to hold up at that point. As for delphi you are right, you don't just let up in the second quarter and rip your starters out. I use basketball because it's high scoring, but there are NBA teams that sometimes grow huge margins in the first 2 quarters. they take out their big players but end up putting them back in even if the game is still a blowout. they do this because at the pro level in any sport you can be damn good but you still need to be on the floor/field/court for the majority of the game to stay at that high level of competition. Bellicheck does not use this kind of logic, he would rather bury a team and make them cry for mercy rather than letting up. yesterday is not a great example, but there are many other instances where in the third and fourth quarters of games he has kept pouring it on, because he doesn't believe in mercy. I'm glad the giants got beat, because it will wake them up. If they didn't lose this game against the saints then shit it may have come sometime more inconvenient, like the playoffs. it will make the giants a better team. this is a good thing, in all honesty i am glad the giants lost. this is something a patriots fans would never admit, because they don't like the idea of going back to their days of shit.