"Long before it ever got close to Tebow Time last night it was Tom's Time, which quickly put the Denver Broncos both out of time and out of the playoffs.

By halftime of the AFC divisional playoff game at frigid Gillette Stadium, Brady had thrown more touchdown passes (five) than Tebow had thrown completions (three), thereby making the Broncos defense look as if it had thrown a shoe on the way to the stadium.

Conventional wisdom does not always apply in the playoffs, as it did not earlier in the day in San Francisco when Alex Smith, of all people, outdueled Drew Brees to send the Saints marching out of the NFC playoffs while the 49ers advanced, but it certainly did in Foxboro. The consensus of opinion around the NFL is that the Patriotswill go as far as Brady's arm will carry them this year. Last night it looked like it could carry them all the way to Indianapolis and Super Bowl XLVI."