not a chance, the pats are still going to be the top team to beat. We're going to be much more solid on defense, and our offense could even be better than last year with healthy tight ends, a better o-line with more depth, and the running backs are looking great too. Maroney had his first healthy off season to get ready, sammy morris should come back strong and the addition of lamont jordan gives us a ton of depth, 4 running backs who are all starting caliber. The defense is equally good with seymore coming back healthy, meriweather looks like he'll have a breakout year, and our corners should be fine with some key rookies and FA pick ups (fernando bryant). We're also much younger at linebacker, and better prepared with vrable and adalius playing outside and bruschi, mayo and victor hobbson (FA from the jets) playing inside. Thomas is a natural at outside, but we made him play inside last year. Moving him to outside is going to make the pass rush really strong, he's going to surprise a lot of people.