(Reuters) ? New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick can become the most successful partnership in the National Football League (NFL) with a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.
With a victory, Brady and Belichick will surpass the record number of wins for a quarterback-head coach partnership, which stands at 116 and was set by the Miami Dolphins pair of Dan Marino and Don Shula.
A recent NFL Network documentary showed the close way Brady and Belichick prepare for each game -- analyzing opponents, working out game plans -- and the quarterback believes he has benefited from the continuity of 12 seasons working together.
"It's been very important for me to never really change offenses or learn new terminology and I think we've just built on it over the years - things I learned 12 years ago when I came here," Brady said this week.
"There are certain plays in our offense that I've literally run thousands of times. You make a lot of mistakes over the course of those plays and you learn from them and hopefully you don't make them again. It's great for a quarterback to have that continuity with coaching and obviously the terminology of the plays. It's been a huge benefit."
A victory on Sunday will have to be a very hard-earned result as Pittsburgh, beaten in the Super Bowl by Green Bay last season, may have been written off in some circles but they are putting together another solid season (5-2).
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has passed for 1,937 yards and after some injury problems hampered him in the early weeks, he is starting to look like the mobile and aggressive player who is such a threat.
The Patriots (5-1) and Steelers have been two of the dominant forces in the AFC over the past decade - eight of the last 10 AFC championship games have featured one of the teams and they met each other in the 2001 and 2004 editions.
Last year's regular season meeting at Pittsburgh ended in a 39-26 win for New England with Brady throwing three touchdowns and running in another and Steelers receiver Mike Wallace expects another high-scoring encounter.
"You can't go out and score seven points and beat the Patriots," he told reporters.
Denver Broncos (2-4) quarterback Tim Tebow continues to provide great material for America's multitude of sports talk radio shows as he faces the Detroit Lions (5-2) a week after rallying his team to a remarkable overtime win over Miami.
The Philadelphia Eagles (2-4) need to start winning and beating divisional rivals if they are to make anything of their highly-anticipated season and that makes their home game with NFC East rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, close to a 'must-win' for coach Andy Reid's team.
The New York Giants (4-2) can strengthen their position at the top of that division with a victory over winless Miami (0-6) while the AFC West leading San Diego Chargers (4-2) have a tricky divisional test against the Kansas City Chiefs (3-3).
The Buffalo Bills (4-2) will play host to the Washington Redskins (3-3) in Canada this weekend as part of a five-year deal the team signed in 2008 to play one home game in Toronto each year.
The defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers (7-0), the league's only undefeated team, have a bye week.
(Editing by Frank Pingue)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111027/sp_nm/us_nfl
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