Randy Moss has 44 catches for 732 yards and 10 touchdowns already this season. AP

New England is off to its first 7-0 start in the franchise's 48-year history, and those wins have been by an average of 22.7 points. The Patriots aren't just defeating teams, they're destroying them, burying opponents beneath an avalanche of points. They show mercy to no one, and are on a pace that would obliterate the Vikings scoring record by a whopping 82 points (638 to 556, or five-plus more per game than Minnesota).

We're watching history in the making, folks. All of which leads me, after just seven weeks of this 2007 season, to a few screaming-headline conclusions. They're bold declarations to be sure, but they're based on what I've seen of those Miami and Minnesota teams in the past, and what I'm seeing from the Patriots now, even before the arrival of their titanic showdown at Indianapolis in Week 9.

Cue the drumroll, please:

• I believe these Patriots will go 16-0 in the regular season, and then march through the playoffs to become the first 19-0 team in NFL history. Write it down and underline it twice. They're that good, and they're that motivated.

I already picked them to win the Super Bowl last May, but now I'm going even further. Move over, Miami. After 35 years of solitude, you're going to have company in the perfect-season club. The Pats will beat the Colts in two weeks, and then everyone else in their path this season.

• I believe we just saw the most dominant seven-game stretch of offensive football ever, with New England's 279 points (39.9 per game) setting the Patriots up to demolish the Vikings' scoring record at some point in December. New England needs to average 30.8 ppg over its final nine games to beat Minnesota's 556, and Brady and Co. will get it done. With flair, and points to spare.

• I believe these Patriots will stack up in history as a better, more dominant overall team than the '72 Dolphins, the team (sniff, sniff) of my childhood. Miami that season never faltered. But the Dolphins were also far from overwhelming. They won six of their 17 games by seven points or fewer, and nine by 10 points or fewer. Only four times all season did Miami post a blowout win of 21 points or more. New England this season, we remind you, is winning by an average of 22.7 points per game, with six of their seven victories by 21 points or more.

Bit off quite a mouthful with this one, didn't I? Seven weeks in, it sounds preposterous to project these Patriots to stand alongside or even beat the perfect-season Dolphins of 1972. And for a New England team that famously cares little about statistics or setting records -- only winning -- the idea that the 1998 Vikings and their single-season scoring mark is in its sights is near blasphemous.

No matter. I didn't say the Patriots care one whit about beating out the '72 Dolphins or the '98 Vikings. I don't believe they do. But that doesn't mean they won't still supplant them en route to their fourth Super Bowl title in the past seven years. It'll just come naturally in the process of keeping their eyes on the prize.

History in the making. That's what we're watching unfold in New England this season. Remember, you heard it here first.