In Foxboro, Massachusetts, Tom Brady limped off the Gillette Stadium turf with an injured left knee. Brady's next date won't be with Gisele, but presumably with the working end of a surgeon's scalpel. The Jets and the New England Patriots are both 1-0, but the Jets have a Hall of Fame-to-be quarterback who can still stand upright. Sure, Favre said it will take his banana-bruised body at least three more days "until I feel good again." But that beats the medical possibilities facing Brady and the Patriots. As the "Favre Era -- Jets Version" began here in front of a sellout crowd (sort of; there were empty seats), the "Brady Era -- 2008 Version" ended midway through the first quarter of his game against Kansas City. At the exact moment Brady's knee buckled, Favre and the Jets became the team to beat in a division previously leased by the Patriots. "I just found out," Favre said. "I heard about that. Man, that's terrible. Terrible. I guess it's [an] ACL or something. They've always overcome injuries and things like that, but that's pretty difficult [with] Tom Brady." I don't know who told Favre that Brady had hurt his anterior cruciate ligament, but here's guessing it wasn't Patriots coach Bill Belichick (the team hasn't confirmed a diagnosis; Brady will have an MRI on Monday). You could sever your arm and Belichick would describe the injury as "an abrasion." The guy is the prince of darkness when it comes to specifics on anything, especially injuries. This is a quarterback-driven league, and the best healthy quarterback in the AFC East is now Favre. He didn't put up PlayStation numbers, but he did enough to help beat the Miami Dolphins 20-14. And he did it pretty much without a place-kicker (Mike Nugent strained his thigh during a first-quarter kickoff), without knowing about 25 percent of the Jets' playbook, and without having much of a feel for any of his wide receivers.
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