"Chad Ochocinco was inactive last week, doesn't have a catch in the playoffs and has been pretty much a big-name flop in his first season with the Patriots.

Ochocinco also has been uncharacteristically quiet with the New England media all season before finally opening up to the Boston Herald yesterday to say he has no regrets about talking his way out of Cincinnati and becoming invisible as a Patriot.

"No, there's no bittersweetness," he told the paper. "There's a competitive side to me that is angry, the competitive nature in me that it didn't go the way it normally has. I routinely produce a certain way every year. So when that routine goes astray like it did this year, it feels funny. It's something I had to get used to."