team is already out to kill in preseason 
No team is going to go Gungho for 20 weeks straight and maintain a high level of play. All it will take is one team playing well in one game to catch the Pats in an off game, and that's going to be in the playoffs when they are out of gas
last year they blew it in December, specifically the Jets game
2007 blew it in playoffs than 2 weeks layover til SB and they were flat
No team is going to go Gungho for 20 weeks straight and maintain a high level of play. All it will take is one team playing well in one game to catch the Pats in an off game, and that's going to be in the playoffs when they are out of gaslast year they blew it in December, specifically the Jets game
2007 blew it in playoffs than 2 weeks layover til SB and they were flat