Football is definitely about emotions. The Patriots really took it to one of the most physical teams in the league and knocked them on their ass.
This also completely dispels the myth that we don't have talent on offense or defense and that Brady is washed up. Stork stonewalled Atkins for a large part of the night. Wendell was a beast in the run game. Develin was destroying people. Wright played a fabulous game, Gronk is slowly returning to his past self, Vereen/Ridley were ridiculous.
It does emphasize that we still need to clear some things up with the atrocious amounts of penalties (yes some were on the refs but still).
There were still some fixable problems on the Oline, and i'm still not entirely content with Amendola and Lafell (I wish Dobson would be put in, that KT makes it through waivers and comes back). They really do make a difference with the explosiveness.
Also, how about those special teams. BB has slowly brought in a bunch of people that have really made us into one of the better cover teams in the league. It's crazy whata difference that makes.