All right, this thing stinks to me.

If Brady had a stress fracture was it even mentioned during the year? This would be an injury that would be required by the league to be mentioned in the injury report each week.

Stress fractures are fractures that develop over time and heal normally with just rest. That they chose to put a pin in the thing surgically makes me think the fracture was not a "normal stress fracture"

There are two possibilities to me:

1)He had the fracture all year and Bellichek was cheating again and not mentioning it on the Injury Report each week.

2)He had it from the last game of the year and it was a more severe fracture.........that they knew would need surgery after the year.

Look, you just do not pin a new stress fracture with 6 months of rest coming up. It is lunacy, something is not right here.

When I was watching that Pats Jets game ( a game I had the over in and no Pats bet) I kept thinking Brady was going down like a sack of potatos. Whenever Ellis got near him he just crumpled for the guy. Now I know Brady is not a scrambler (see Tarkenton) but he looked like the second coming of Neil "the whack" O'Donnell. He just looked like chit the entire game (save the first two drives). It was not vintage Brady, he was not even as good as Cassell.

So here is my conspiracy theory, Brady was hurt going into the game. He did not have the mobility or accuracy that he would normally have and the loss is as much a statement of the Pats short comings as the Jets strength. Bellichek and the Pats knew it but covered it up. That is my theory, take it for what it is worth but man does it not make the Steelers look juicy tomorrow?

I saw the Steelers about in week 5 and thought, this is the team that wins the bowl, I thought the same thing when they beat the Cards a couple of years ago at around the same time in the season.

I am the worst capper on covers right now........but medically I have been pretty solid through the years, check my blog.

Steelers Roll......