I’m sure I can find more than that if I dig hard. That’s just what I can remember. In any event, the Patriots looked like a wild card team at most to that point in the season. People were right to crap on them. They backed into the #2 seed thankfully so that Brady could rest, the defense finally came together, and the run defense (which was very much in competition with 2002 for worst of the BB era) lucked out by playing three teams in a row whose star RBs were either released or injured. The rest is history.