Seems like every year's schedule this decade has been very challenging (except maybe '08). They played a lot of very good teams in '03 and did all right, '07 was just monstrous, and last year — after the loss to the Browns, this board had some serious melting down with an extremely tough schedule looming (Ian even posted a thread on tough times ahead). The way they shredded one top-flight team after another was just so impressive.
Just shows how masterful this organization has been in consistently winning at such a high level in a league system designed to keep him from doing so. The Patriots have been so good for so long I look at the '11 schedule, think "who do you fear?" and really come up with no one except possibly the Chargers and Jets.
