What a difference a week makes.
Last week, Tom Brady was quietly sitting alone on a bench after being pulled from the game following a fourth-quarter interception in a humiliating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
This week, he was marching the Patriots up and down the field against an undefeated Bengals team, and throwing in some pretty entertaining celebrations.
After Brady hit tight end Tim Wright for a 17-yard touchdown in the first quarter that gave New England a 14-0 lead — and after a drive on which he passed the 5,000-passing-yard mark for his career — Brady celebrated with wideout Julian Edelman on the sideline, tossing the ball back and forth before Brady ended the celebration with an emphatic spike.
