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It's bye week 2009 for the New England Patriots, and this season is gearing up to be one of of the most epic seasons to be a fan of the New England Patriots.

The excitement doesn't start until Wes Welker catches a short pass from Tom Brady.

As you'd expect, things are a little more low-key during the bye week. At least, that was the case during Patriots practice.

What have they learned thus far? What could pose the greatest problems going forward? What gives them hope they can tackle the defining stretch, which starts and finishes with games against Miami and includes showdowns against current unbeatens Indianapolis and New Orleans, as well as a Jets team that beat them in Week 2? The way the Pats fare in ...

Tom Brady and teammates wait to board charter flight Thursday afternoon. View full size photo uploaded October 23, 2009 Everyone's favorite comedian , the running back snapped out of a year-long malaise last week against the Titans , rushing for 123 yards in the win.

Observations from the Patriots' 35-7 win over the Buccaneers: 1. Safety valves: Not only are Patriots safeties Brandon McGowan and Brandon Meriweather quickly becoming one of the best tandems in the league, their games are improving and evolving to where the coaching staff can utilize their abilities to keep offenses confused and perplexed.

The Patriots waved goodbye to London yesterday and, with equal enthusiasm, said hello to their bye week.

Here are the key injury updates heading into the early games of Week Seven: Vikings WR Percy Harvin is active at Pittsburgh.

Another week, another game, another relatively systematic dismantling. The Patriots now will celebrate the mid-semester break known as bye week, returning in time for a Nov.

The plane trip back from Denver last Sunday wasn't fun. Running back Sammy Morris described it as ``torture,'' and he wasn't alone.

The Patriots' visit to London was a successful one, not to mention overly efficient.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 9-3 and tied for first place in the NFC South last December.

Glenn Card and TR have some opinions, which should come as no surprise. Various other regular contributors to this series are either still sitting in Gillette Stadium high-fiving each other, or on their way to London to see the Queen.

Posted by John Paulsen Things are looking up for Anquan Boldin. We'll see if he practices today , but he went through a tough workout with the trainer and reportedly looked a lot better than he did on Wednesday.

FOXBOROUGH, MASS. If imagery projects to reality then the pictures taken Sunday at Gillette Stadium were worth millions of words.

I am hoping that I just missed a game thread and I am starting one in vein. I do not see the game thread for the Patriots at Titans .

Escorted by a phalanx of six State Police motorcycles, 1 black unmarked cruiser and 1 sports utility vehicle, the Patriots' caravan of six buses departed Gillette Stadium, with coach Bill Belichick and his son, Stephen, riding in the first row of the first bus after being the last to board just four minutes before the scheduled 4 p.m. departure.

It's all about perspective now. The proper one. That's what the New England Patriots have to do after Sunday's 59-0 record whitewashing of the Tennessee Titans.

Hello again, Laurence Maroney His 45-yard TD gives Patriots the lead All that talk of stutter-stepping, dancing, and however else Laurence Maroney's running style has been described apparently, it works in the snow.

Joey Galloway's brief stint with the New England Patriots ended Tuesday when the 15-year veteran wide receiver was released two days before the team leaves for London to play his former club.

The sun brightened Gillette Stadium one day after Tom Brady's passes floated into the arms of open receivers as gently as the snow.

One week after the offense failed to finish off the Broncos in regulation and the defense failed to come up with a stop in overtime, the Patriots put it all together and buried the still-winless Tennessee Titans , 59-0, yesterday in your typical mid-October snowstorm at Gillette Stadium.

The Patriots lost RB Sammy Morris to an apparent knee injury on the team's first drive of the game against the Titans.

Wes Welker was on the receiving end of two of Tom Brady 's career-high six touchdown passes.

Patriots running back Sammy Morris, injured in the first quarter after catching a short pass from Tom Brady, has a knee injury.

The Patriots' two losses this year have come on the road with offensive struggles down the stretch.

In the big situations that require a small gain, Patriots running back Sammy Morris has been tapped to make the critical play more than once this season.

Often the coach vs. coach matchup can be an overinflated, overindulged idea that makes for good talk and little more.

"Knight & Day" actress Cameron Diaz knocking back a few cocktails at Drink . . . Red Sox [ team stats ] hurler Daisuke Matsuzaka [ stats ] and his family shopping at Russo's in Watertown .

They also were playing against a team still seething over what happened in 2007, when the Baltimore Ravens believed they blew an opportunity to stop the Patriots from completing their 16-0 regular season through their own actions and with some unwanted assistance from the officials.

NEW ENGLAND at DENVER  4:15 p.m. ET, CBS OPENING LINE -- Patriots by 31/2 RECORD VS.

Close your eyes, listen to Josh McDaniels speak, and you can almost hear his mentor in his words.

Fred Taylor , the New England Patriots ' leading rusher, will require surgery on his injured right ankle, according to a source close to the situation.

Dependable Sammy "The Bull" Morris celebrates his touchdown against the Ravens. View full size photo uploaded October 6, 2009 Bill Belichick talks about the players inactive for Sunday's game, including Joey Galloway : Well, you just can't take everybody to the game.

In the final six minutes of the 27-21 win on Sunday, the Patriots [ team stats ] defense had enough energy to make two fourth-down stops and thwart the Baltimore Ravens' final drive.

Time to get those expectations back up, Patriots fans. Any residue of the team's troubling 1-1 start, the one that came with a stolen win over the Bills in Week 1 followed by a sloppy loss to the hated Jets in Week 2, has been wiped away by back-to-back victories over good, probably playoff-bound teams.

Bill Belichick, as you'd expect, was pretty upbeat as he met the media today. He said yesterday's game with Baltimore "like a lot of games, came down to a handful of plays." Among the topics Belichick was asked to touch on: * Pointing out to his team that referee Ron Winter's crew calls tight games, as they have the highest number of called ...

He played a reserve role the first two games of the season and made his first start in a two-back set last weekend against the Falcons.

The first half had a few recurring themes, one of the most prominent being that the Patriots were going to blitz Joe Flacco as much as they could get away with.

Trying to figure out the 2009 New England Patriots is like trying to punch a puddle: not very successful and ultimately, painful.

The Jets did a number on the Patriots two weeks ago, blitzing their way to a 16-9 victory.

TOM BRADY and the Patriots put together an awfully impressive drive on their first possession against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.