No sour grapes from retired Bledsoe. David Moore of the Dallas Morning News caught up with Drew Bledsoe, the quarterback with the dubious distinction of having lost his starting quarterback position to both Tom Brady and Tony Romo. Life is quieter as a family man and Oregon winemaker. His pregame assessment of the QBs he mentored:

"Tom has established himself as one of the premier guys in the league and has done it for a long time," Bledsoe said. "Tony is, what, just about to go into his 16th game as a starter?

"People have got to be careful about getting ahead of the game and going too far with where Tony is before he has a chance to play a few years. The big test is how you bounce back, how you respond to adversity. What defines quarterbacks, long-term or short-term, is how they respond to adversity.

"This week will be telling."

The tale was of a Patriots team that came through again, despite a glaring failure to sack (by Rodney Harrison), and just one interception (by a surprised Junior Seau) in a whale of a game that was more of a nail-biter than it looks on paper (48-27 Pats). John Clayton, ESPN:

The scary part of the Patriots' 6-0 start is that they really aren't playing their best football. Tackling was a little bit sloppy Sunday. Brady did miss 15 passes. In the third quarter, Patrick Crayton caught an 8-yard touchdown pass from Tony Romo to put the Cowboys ahead 24-21.

Only then did the Brady bunch reach another gear the Cowboys could not match, scoring 27 points on the next five possessions -- three touchdowns and two field goals.

Bledsoe, by the way, calls his budding winery the "Flying B." We can't wait till next year to see whether the label on his bottles resembles the Flying Elvis on his old helmet.

Two-way street: A new pathway out of homelessness is a nice L.A. Times story about a family that works, even if Dad doesn't, and the mentors they changed.

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