Patriots again morph into an elite team

FOXBOROUGH, MASS. -- You could see Fred Taylor's eyes light up, one more time. As he left the locker room Sunday -- a bag, pair of headphones and 105 rushing yards in tow -- the 33-year-old once-again workhorse was asked if a smile crossed his face upon seeing the Patriots' game plan. Fred Taylor rushes for 105 yards. He wouldn't say. He didn't need to. "One of those things," Taylor said Sunday, "Coach just said, 'We must run the ball better.'" The Patriots, in pounding the Falcons into submission by a 26-10 count, did just about everything better than they had the week before in losing to the Jets. But it was Taylor and the running game that changed everything for these Patriots. Last week, they looked like an inept Arena League team with a shaken quarterback. This week, they were confident, physical and clutch. More conventional. More productive. More everything, really. And therein is the key to how the Patriots' rise from t...