I think losing Brady had a huge impact... with Cassel using basically the same team, they had 5 fewer regular season wins and averaged almost 2 passing TDs PER GAME less than the year before. That's with a QB who is starting now, and threw what, 7 picks all of last year, with 28 or so TDs? He's certainly not a bad QB, and he put up nowhere close to the same production as Brady did with the same team.