"Chad Ochocinco doesn't want to look at cut-ups. He doesn't want to study film of sharply edited plays that only present snippets of game action.

The new Patriots [team stats] receiver wants the whole package. With hopes of accelerating the acclimation process to quarterback Tom Brady [stats]'s offense, Ochocinco has been studying.

"Just a little homework, that's all," Ochocinco said.

It's the expectation that he's working overtime. What's noteworthy is how he's watching film. Ochocinco had last year's games recorded on a loop, including the dead time between plays. He sees it all.

"I like to watch everything as a whole," Ochocinco told the Herald by his locker yesterday. "Unless I need something specific. But I don't need anything specific, I need to see the entire machine operate. How the whole offense operates as a whole. I got what I have to do down to a 'T.' But I just want to see how everything else works.""