The wonder of the New England Patriots isn't just how they keep winning and winning and winning these NFL Football Super Bowls. It is more than the blinding glitter from all those rings and their secured place among the dominant teams in NFL history. It's their astonishing consistency, their unflappable composure, the almost matter-of-fact approach they employ to make the difficulty of what they have achieved seem so unremarkable.

Amid all the praise and admiration generated by their continued romp through the NFL Football, these New England Patriots leave you with the impression that not only did they expect to win NFL Super Bowl 39 but that they expect to win a lot more before this incredible run is over.

"We are not necessarily done," linebacker Mike Vrabel says. "This team is set up for championships, and I don't think we are necessarily finished." That's the chilling part of what we are witnessing. This is not a team at its peak but a team built for continuity and stability. So we better not be surprised if we again see Bill Belichick being doused with water, the signal for his players to begin celebration of yet another title.

New England Patriots already is in the same elite territory shared by wondrous clubs from the past: the Chicago Bears of the '40s, the Cleveland Browns of the '50s, the Green Bay Packers of the '60s, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the '70s, the San Francisco 49ers of the '80s and the Dallas Cowboys of the '90s. "For them to win all these titles in this current environment is incredible," Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome says. "This is a NFL team game, and they show all of us how you win as a football team. You've got to put them right up there with these other great football teams from the past."

That's what makes them so unique. This era of free agents and a salary cap wasn't supposed to allow any franchise to dominate -- "All of us thought it couldn't be done," Falcons general manager Rich McKay says -- yet the New England Patriots, lacking as they are in abundant superstars, have created a rare blend of intelligence, sacrifice, savvy and coaching to produce this picture of excellence.

How the New England Patriots hate all these comparisons. They just want to do their jobs and get on with business as soon as possible; after No. 3, they barely mounted a proper post-game celebration. Belichick has convinced them that even a hint of outward satisfaction with their body of work will somehow destroy what they've constructed. "This just means we started at the bottom of the mountain in August and we are now at the top of that mountain," Belichick says.

But they can't dismiss what they've done so easily, not with all this mounting evidence. Now they are the second team to win three NFL football Super Bowls in four years -- matching the Dallas Cowboys of Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. Belichick is the the fourth coach to produce as many as three Super Bowl titles, joining Chuck Noll (four), Bill Walsh (three) and Joe Gibbs (three). And Tom Brady is the fourth quarterback with at least three NFL football Super Bowl rings, joining Terry Bradshaw, Aikman and Joe Montana. And at 27, Brady won his third at the youngest age.

The New England Patriots' latest football Super Bowl victory, a 24-21 test of nerves over the Philadelphia Eagles, was no easier than the previous two. It took another exceptional effort by Brady, who passed for 2 touchdowns and nearly an interception, a record-tying eleven catches by NFL football Super Bowl MVP Deion Branch and an opportune defense that yielded 357 passing yards to Donovan McNabb but created four turnovers. And that still was barely enough to subdue Eagles. But there was no reason to suspect it would be simple; these Philadelphia Eagles are almost as solid and competent as the New England Patriots, and together they represent the best the NFL Football has to offer. And that, for the rest of the Football league, should be very, very scary.

The problem for the remaining 30 teams is this: How do they close this gap of success the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots have created between themselves and everyone else? It is the crucial competitive question facing the NFL, one that once seemed outlandish to raise given the constant upheaval created by a parity-pushing system the past decade-plus. Yet the presence of these two franchises -- the most successful and consistent of any over the past 5 years -- in this NFL Football Super Bowl highlights the change we are seeing. That is, at least these two clubs have shown you can maintain dominant rosters in an era in which that seemed impossible.

"These 2 teams are almost mirror images of each other as to how they go about trying to win," says Aikman, now a FOX analyst. "You walk through the door at both places, and it doesn't take long to figure out why they are successful. You just feel it. They have a chain of command, lines are clearly defined as to what people do, there is tremendous respect for everyone within those buildings, and they get good, quality people. And they do sacrifice individual for the team. There is a culture right now where football players want it to be about them. But not with these 2 teams. That is the bottom line." This is how bullies bludgeon the competition. Over the past 5 years, the Philadelphia Eagles are the only team to make the NFL playoffs each season -- and the only one to play in 4 conference football championship games. And their record 59-21 exceeds anyone else's. Once the football playoffs start, it is the New England Patriots who excel.

There seems little reason both franchises can't maintain such splendor. The Philadelphia Eagles are $17 million under the cap and have 5 picks in the 1st 3 rounds of this year's draft. New England Patriots, which traditionally spends to the cap limit, is methodically adding younger football players to its roster, stockpiling quality reserve talent to cushion the aging process in some spots. Neither should lose any great player in the free-agent market this offseason. Plus, their football quarterbacks are young enough to still improve, and who would not want Belichick or Andy Reid as their football coach?

OK, maybe there is one possible crack, at least with New England Patriots. Belichick will lose both of his coordinators, Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel. Weis is the new head football coach at Notre Dame, and Crennel will be named football coach of the Cleveland Browns this week. Both have been with Belichick at every NFL Super Bowl, and their expertise has drawn league-wide admiration. For the 1st time in his New England Patriots tenure, Belichick will be faced with a major staff shakeup, which might be enough to help the pretenders close the gap. Yet, as long as Belichick keeps showing up on football game days in that ugly sweatshirt of his, you have to believe the New England Patriots still will be more than OK.



-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As soon as this football Super Bowl was over, 30 other football teams suddenly had a lot of hope," Newsome says. Certainly, the pattern created by the free-agent system and the salary cap reinforces Newsome's optimism. Every new season, we have teams moving from last place to ring challengers. But the new reality of the league should start to dampen this kind of enthusiasm. You likely will still see examples of the dramatic ascent every football season, but now such improvement might not be sufficient to dislodge the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles. So instead of the free for all scramble we have been witnessing for NFL Super Bowl berths, the NFL Super Bowl now is more about bullies against 98-pound weaklings.

Look how difficult it is to overcome New England Patriots. The Philadelphia Eagles couldn't do it despite a truly inspirational effort from wide receiver Terrell Owens, who returned from a broken ankle weeks ahead of his original prognosis and caught 9 passes for 122 yards. The New England Patriots limited the Philadelphia Eagles running game to 45 yards and forced 51 passes by McNabb, who wasn't quite sharp enough against a surprising 4-3 scheme -- New England Patriots primarily had been a 3-4 club all football season -- that contained his scrambling. And he wasn't good enough in a puzzlingly slow hurry-up offense late in the game to help the Philadelphia Eagles win their 1st NFL Football title in 44 years.

The New England Patriots also have Brady, who grows more impressive with every football championship. His coolness and accuracy under the greatest of pressure separate him from his peers. On this night, he overcame a slow start with a scintillating 2nd half in which he led the New England Patriots on 2 long scoring drives to break away from a 7 all halftime tie and gain control of the contest.

He is now 9-0 in the football playoffs and never was more professional than in this latest football playoff run, when the New England Patriots toppled the Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles, all momentous achievements. "He is just an amazing young man," Weis says. "He kept calling me during the week late at night to talk about the football game plan. I just wanted to sleep." No wonder the Philadelphia Eagles had problems with him.

"The gap can be eliminated, no doubt about it," says ESPN analyst Randy Mueller, a top candidate to take over the Seattle Seahawks' front office. "But it's different than it used to be when I was the New Orleans Saints' football general manager 2000-02. These 2 have taken talent evaluation to the next level. They have shown that it is not necessarily the most talented football teams that win. It is more the way their football head coaches and football staff bring them together as a football team; how they use the chemistry, the IQ of the football players and fit the football players' strengths into the football team's schemes. You need to pay special attention to 'team' and chemistry now when putting together your roster."

Certainly, the model used by the New England Patriots and Eagles is influencing the shaping of football front offices and football rosters throughout the football league. Both NFL franchises have football head coaches who also are in charge of personnel. A similar alignment has been adopted this offseason by the Miami Dolphins, who have handed over all power to Nick Saban, and the San Francisco 49ers, who have done likewise with Mike Nolan. John York, owner of the San Francisco 49ers, admits he is attempting to revitalize his once-proud franchise by copying the New England Patriots blueprint. But playing copycat is easy; actually constructing football rosters good enough to knock off these bullies is something else. Because of this new football league order, no more than half the football teams if that can realistically overcome the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots. At the moment, no one else has the proper combination of elements it would take to kick them off the top.

"To catch them, you need a new football stadium to give you the proper cash flow, a new practice facility to attract free agents, a franchise football quarterback who can be the face of the football organization, a NFL head coach who has command of his situation and a front office that has a blueprint for success and can work in concert with the football head coach," FOX analyst Brian Baldinger says. "And you need a philosophy about how to go about winning football games, a sound philosophy that cuts through an entire football organization."

Franchises that constantly change football head coaches, assistant coaches and football front office personnel have no chance against the stability of the New England Pats and Philadelphia Eagles. Just consider the past 2 offseasons; there have been 14 football head coaching changes and double that in offensive and defensive coordinator changes. The Green Bay Packers alone are on their 3rd defensive football coordinator in 3 years. Just as important, NFL franchises with clueless football ownership can't compete with these 2 teams. "I think some football owners are more committed to winning than others," New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft says. "Some just want to make as much money as they can." Kraft and Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie have demonstrated the proper mentality to produce a NFL winner. They are willing to provide the financial resources for football free agents to acquire needed talent and football assistant coaching salaries to maintain staff stability along with allowing their NFL football people to make all the NFL football decisions. There hardly has been any turnover among the staff or front office of either football team the past 5 years. Football Owners can be educated, too. Lurie once was considered a bumbler who was messing up the Philadelphia Eagles. Then he hired Reid.

"They have done a good job of dealing with the hard decisions, letting name football players go because of salary cap problems, things like that," the Atlanta Falcons' McKay says. "That takes understanding by the NFL owner. He has to realize not everything is going to work out and you have to ride out the downs. Not every owner can handle that."

The quick turnarounds of so many football teams from season to season have created a football league-wide quest for the quick fix, a mentality that contradicts the approach by these NFL Super Bowl clubs. "It is so hard to be disciplined right now," Mueller says. "But you have to be. That is what I have learned, too. You have to stick with what you think is right and not chase talent for talent's sake. The Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots have figured out the football players they need to make their systems work, and they are willing to confine their talent search to these football players."

Nor can the wannabes hope to become dominant by adopting a fantasy football approach to roster building. The New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles don't believe in wild spending sprees for available football players. Instead, they are incredibly selective, using offseason pickups such as Corey Dillon, Jevon Kearse and Owens to fill major needs. "It is tempting to want to use football free agents to make everything better," McKay says. "But I am firmly convinced that is just the wrong way to go about it. We feel we can close the gap by identifying our core football players, keeping them on the football team, be smart in the draft and have continuity in the scheme and staff. I tell my people I want our offseason grade for free agents to be a C. If we get an A, we should be scared. Too many football offseason A's boomerang."

McKay's gap closing ability is enhanced by a decision he made almost a 1 year ago, when he hired Jim Mora as his football coach. The importance of the football head coach has grown during this era; just consider the way Belichick and Reid dominate their organizations, how their football players reflect their demeanor and respond to their party lines. "I think having a football coaching staff comprised of great teachers, starting with the football head coach, is paramount if you want to get to the top now," Houston Texans GM Charley Casserly says. "There's something like 15 new guys on a football roster every year, so you are assimilating new people into your system constantly. So your football coaches need to be able to get their methods across quickly." Reid puts it this way: "It's like we are college football coaches."

So you can close the gap by hiring a special football head coach. But no one has developed an accurate measure that identifies who will succeed. Belichick had been mediocre in Cleveland; Kraft still gave him total control. Reid had been a position coach with the Green Bay Packers when Lurie hired him; only later did he give him GM duties. Now York with San Francisco 49ers hopes the untested Nolan, who never has been an NFL football head coach or GM, can duplicate the triumphs of Belichick and Reid. As much as anything, you have to get lucky in this football coach search.

The bullies also keep demonstrating that it is now the smarter teams, and not necessarily the most gifted ones, that win. Everyone raves about the New England Patriots' IQs. The New England Patriots didn't get that way by accident. New England Patriots refuses to employ football players who lack ability to absorb its schemes. "You have to have football players who are not going to lose football games for you, who don't do dumb things at the wrong times," Newsome says. "You rarely see the New England Patriots do things in football games that hurt them. So you have to beat them; they won't beat themselves. The bottom line to me right now is to add impact football players, rid yourself of guys who do things to lose football games and manage the cap. If we do that, we can overcome the New England Patriots."

Character matters, too. "When I hired Bill," Kraft says, "I said, 'Just don't bring thugs or hoodlums to New England Patriots.' " And he hasn't.

What he has brought is glory. "We all want what he has now," Casserly says. "Nothing lasts forever. The football league keeps getting better, and we'll catch these football teams. Otherwise, we shouldn't be in this business." Still, you wonder. These bullies are really, really good. Don't look for them to be trampled any time soon.


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