LT hit the nail on the head after last year's playoffs.  This is a classless team and they get it from their coach.  That said, they are insanely talented and have an all-time great coach.  Tough combination to beat.

To state the obvious, the Patriots are having an excellent season. Yesterday gave them the opportunity to show that they can win a close game when challenged. An undefeated season is a real possibility for them.

However, yesterday should also have eliminated (or at least damaged) the perception that this team is invincible. I saw one person predict a 55-3 Pats' victory for yesterday's game, and I think I saw someone else predict something like 44-10, NE. Those are just two people, but I think their predictions are examples - albeit extreme ones - of how some people have overreacted to the Pats' success.

I'm not checking to see what a lot of NE fans have been saying in the aftermath of the game, but I hope there's a healthy dose of humility in their enjoyment of another W. That's not to say they have something to be ashamed of just because they were tested by a strong Colts team. However, if there's no acknowledgement that their team may be beatable, and that they were at least a little worried before those 2 fourth-quarter TD's, then those fans probably are not very realistic and/or not very honest, in my opinion.

Also, whether Pats fans like it or not, it is noteworthy that Harrison did not play. I'm NOT saying the Colts would have won if he had played, though they might have; that's hypothetical when the reality is that he didn't play and the Pats won. However, the rest of the season is still hypothetical at this point, and NE fans should recognize that a potential playoff game with Indy (though likely in New England) could be even harder for the Pats if Harrison is at full strength. If not for the fact that the Patriots are at home against the Steelers, I would say that even Pittsburgh (if at full strength, with a good defense and all of their offensive weapons) has a moderate chance of beating NE.

Patriots fans, realize that I haven't said that your team isn't great. I've said they're having an excellent season and they have a real chance at going undefeated. Still, I'm not going to call them invincible and I'm not inclined to call them the best team in NFL history when the season is 9 games (admittedly, impressive games) old.

What would have happened it the game was played in Foxboro and the same Glitch was heard over the TV broadcast???????   Hate em if you want!!! 9-0 cant debate that

GO PATS!!!!!!!!

OMG Just asnwer the question. I have been to Foxboro may of times new and old i Know it is not a dome!!!!!!!!

If the Tables were turned and they heard a glitch everyone on this site and many others would be damning the Patriots even more.  You are all ANTI PATRIOTS and it is too funny.

OK kantwistaye if the packers played a game in INDI and every person watching heard the same thing we heard would you want them to investigate what it was????????????

Watching the game I honestly didn't put it together that it could be pumped in noise.  Honestly I wouldn't care.  The Packers have two guaranteed dome games a year, and I'm almost 100% certain that they pump in noise every single time.  That doesn't bother me the slightest bit.

Here (from the NFL):

"CBS has informed us that the unusual audio moment heard by fans during the Patriots-Colts game was the result of tape feedback in the CBS production truck and was isolated to the CBS broadcast," the league said. "It was in no way related to any sound within the stadium and could not be heard in the stadium."

[bold italics added by me]

from "Colts deny allegations artificial noise was piped into RCA Dome", Yahoo! Sports

Well the fact is that only one of them actually happened

Yes, but piping in noise is something every team does, regardless of whether they are a classy organization or the Vikings (j/k Viking fans, sort of). The Patriots and every other franchise have played countless games in domes with piped in noise and won many times.  Not only that, but every coach in the league is already prepared for it.  On the other hand, no player with any respect or class would take the ball go to the midfield logo and spike it.