The New England Patriots won in an impressive fashion against the San Diego Chargers at Gillette Stadium, 35-21, to improve to 2-0 on the young season.

It is incredibly hard to beat the Patriots at home. Their record at home in recent years has probably been one of the best in the NFL. The Patriots are simply too much to handle when they're playing at Gillette Stadium, and they always seem to find ways to win games there one way or another.

Coming into Sundays game, Philip Rivers had never won a game against Tom Brady, and this did not change, although his performance was not bad. Unfortunately for Rivers, the Chargers defense just couldn't hold up in the clutch and the team as a whole made way too many mistakes to overcome an already powerful offensive attack of the Patriots.

Vince Jackson tore up the young Patriot secondary with a single hand, literally, because he caught one of his touchdowns, you guessed it, with one hand. Players like him who are physically hard to cover because of their height and or weight will impose major threats and I think that is one big area of concern for the defense going forward.

To nobody's surprise, Brady and the offense, including Deion Branch, Wes Welker, and the tight ends had another spectacular day. The running game also seemed good as Green Ellis performed well.

But what really stood out to me were plays like Vince Wilfork's interception that established the fact that so far this season, although the defense hasn't done very well in terms of yards and points allowed, they are making plays when they really matter late in the game, and that is certainly a sign of good things to come.