Boy, did Anthony Smith learn the hard way that you do not tug on Superman's cape unless you are ready to take him on.  And he was not ready, at all.  Anthony Smith's Steeler teammates must have been cursing him after he said that they would beat the Patriots and then reaffirmed his guarantee to leave no one in doubt as to what he said.  Tom Brady had a cool response to Smith's guarantee before the game saying:  "Well done is always better than well said."  Well, for the Patriots, it was well done on Sunday and the rest of the league is left scratching their heads.

Right when it looked like the Eagles and the Ravens showed the rest of the league a formula for toppling the undefeated Patriots, all hopes got dashed.  It looked like the Steelers should be able to give the Patriots a good run with an offense better than either the Eagles or the Ravens and a defense almost as good as Baltimore's, but it did not happen.  New England did not go out and beat up on the lowly Dolphins or Jets.  They took the division leading Steelers out behind the woodshed and gave them an old fashioned whooping.  What looked like a close game in the first half became a laugher in the second as Anthony Smith's foolish guarantee made him look all the more pathetic as he watched Randy Moss fly by him for a long touchdown.  Brady put on a clinic throwing for 399 yards and 4 touchdowns (should have been 5 touchdowns but Moss dropped a pass that hit him in the hands).    Of Smith, Brady said that he would have to show up on Sunday and try to guard them and that they were going to try to make it hard on him.   That was exactly what happened as 7 different receivers caught passes with the 4 touchdowns going to 3 different receivers. 

Smith showed how silly it is to challenge a team that has great talent and feels they have something to prove.  Now the rest of the league has seen what it means to face a focused Patriots team with a chip on their collective shoulder.  You think Mangini is keeping a lid on his players this week or is it enough already that it was his team that instigated video-gate?