Quarterbacks will always be in the Super spotlight, in the forefront for winning the Super Bowl MVP trophy. In that regard, New England's Tom Brady and New York's Eli Manning have been dissected every which way to Sunday this past week.

I'm not going to tell you anything you don't know, but I have some numbers that maybe you haven't seen that indicate the trends today's two field generals have be… More

There is no truth to the rumor that New England held its Monday media session in the Phoenix Convention Center because coach Bill Belichick didn't want the early horde of reporters descending on the team hotel. Actually, reporters did that Sunday when the Patriots arrived.

But Belichick didn't change his spots when it came to revealing anything about QB Tom Brady's sore ankle, going for 19-0 or a… More

One of the most important numbers in the National Football League is three. And conference championship Sunday was all about the "trey."

The Patriots withstood a third solid postseason effort from the Chargers and once again will represent the AFC in Super Bowl XLII. NFL MVP Tom Brady was picked off three times, but the Pats still managed three TDs in a hard-fought 21-12 victory.

This one got aw… More

When a quarterback gets on a roll, it can be mind-numbingly beautiful if he's throwing bull's-eyes for your team and mind-blowingly frustrating if he's on the bad guys' side.

That's what I was thinking during Tom Brady's Saturday night fever as he pitched one strike after another. His passes were mostly short but highly effective and well-distributed as the Patriots moved the ball at will for mos… More

The Pats come to the line to go for it, call a timeout, then do go for it. And Tom Brady, out of the shotgun, once again converts a fourth-and-short vs. the Jets.

Then from first-and-10 at the Jets 17, good Jets pressure forces a Brady incompletion, Laurence Maroney gets 4 yards up the gut, then Brady hits Moss for 5 with Darrelle Revis preventing the first down. But it's fourth-and-short again.