Re: Is this in your top-5 favorite Regular Season wins of the Brady-Belichick-Kraft e
I think so.
Some other ones in this era:
The Spygate game: 2007 week 2 vs Chargers. Put to bed some of the nonsense that was out there like the Pats being a 2 win team without spygate, or Brady would be out of the league by the end of the season. Yeah, people actually said that. If we lost that game the hate would have been insufferable.
Week 1 of 2002 vs Pitt. I've never seen a Super Bowl winning team as disrespected as those Pats were to open that season, and a lot of that disrespect came from the media, fans and even the Steeler players. I remember not one of the ESPN experts picked the Pats at home. Plus it's never a bad thing to annihilate the Steelers.
The 45-3 game against the Jest, although what happened a few months later took a lot of the air out of that balloon.
The 16th win of the 2007 season
The first Tebow game, incinerating the Broncos in Denver. Don't know why it was one of my favorites but it just was.
The intentional safety game against Denver was fun, although it annoyed me that Danny Kannell was able to have his way with the Pats D.
A couple of those wins over the Colts were fun too....