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View Poll Results: What has been the most pleasant surprise of the Patriots season so far?
Welker returning, not missing time, and nearing 100% effectiveness 5 5.21%
Brady playing with cyborg-like accuracy and efficiency, even for him 3 3.13%
Many young players learning so quickly to play mistake-free football 21 21.88%
BJGE and Danny Woodhead running so well (team 4.2 ypc, 113 ypg) 12 12.50%
The dominance of the offensive line following Mankins’ return 2 2.08%
Depth has made potentially key injuries (Ty, Leigh, Nick, Kevin, Ghost, etc.) a minor inconvenience 2 2.08%
McCourty emerging as a shut-down corner (6 INTs) 40 41.67%
"Plug-ins” seem perfect for their role (Woody, Branch, Arrington, etc.) 2 2.08%
Other (please specify) 9 9.38%
Voters: 96. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-15-2010, 07:17 AM   #1
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Old 12-15-2010, 07:23 AM   #2
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Many good choices- #1 is amazing

#3 is incredible too, and my choice. I thought that in playing so many rookies and second year guys we would be living with the "growing pains" all year and would have do deal constantly with screw-ups.
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It's gotta be The Dev man. He's blown my mind like a psychedelic trip man. Dev man.. Dev Dev Dev!
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I went with the running game. If you said before the season that Pats would be going with two unheralded undrafted free agents (one who got cut by the Jets right before the start of the season) as RBs that the Pats , most of us would think the Pats would be throwing 80% of the time or more. Right now, BJGE and Woodhead are doing better than the combination of Tomlinson and Shonn Greene. No one in the world would have expected that especially after the first month of the season.
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Devin McCourty has been such a great draft pick, it's unreal. And to think people here were bashing Belichick when it happened. If he wasn't on this team, it would be 2009's secondary all over again. Remember the Pats/Saints game? We'd have seen that maybe 8 times already without McCourty.

Guess who is smarter than everyone on this website? BILL *****ING BELICHICK. Get over yourselves and embrace it.
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I feel like Rex Ryan at a candy buffet. I can't choose just one.

I'll go with my man Welker's amazing comeback.
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I don't think McCourty was much of a surprise. They guy was a shutdown CB in college. He had the potential in this league. I think he is progressing faster than I thought, but I always thought he could be special.

I also thought Welker had the potential to be close to 100% right away. I knew Brady could be flawless. I had faith in the o-line. I knew Belichick could plug in role players and make them produce. I thought the young defense would pull it together around midseason.

I guess my being called a blind homer in the preseason is paying off now.
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I voted "other" so I could say all of the above. Who'd a thunk that all of these good things would happen this year, let alone one or two of them!! What a great season it's been so far! Hopefully we keep it going right to the end.
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I don't think McCourty was much of a surprise. They guy was a shutdown CB in college. He had the potential in this league. I think he is progressing faster than I thought, but I always thought he could be special.
yeah but college and the NFL are totally different. Honestly, i'm suprised with this whole season and how this team has saficed.
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