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Why 10 Super Bowl appearances isn't enough for Tom Brady

SATURDAY MORNING, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick alone, one last skull session before game day. This was about 10 years ago, during the decade-long New England championship drought, when the Patriots were trying recapture lost magic, back when we first started to consider that maybe Brady was getting up there. Belichick was watching film of Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez and zeroed in on a particular play. Sanchez was rolling right, chased by defenders, off balance and trying to survive, and he had a receiver open downfield -- 65 yards deep and 10 or so diagonal, on the opposite hashmark.