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I was thinking skill position. From an OL perspective you are 100% correct. The Patriots OL has been a think of beauty for the last decade. They're FO, over that period of time, has put ours to shame. Absolutely.
I will also point out however that part of protection is the QB's ability to get the ball out of his hand. If you look at stats that talk about how well a QB does vs. the blitz, Brady is pretty high up there. Again you point about the OL is valid, but a big part of it is how fast a QB can read and react.
Patriots also had a top 10 running game this year. If we were talking the 2001 Patriots(I apologize for mentioning that evil), I could agree but Brady also didn't light it up statistically with that team. He managed the game effectively and played off their great defense and special teams.