FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:

•Watch some of the other NFL games and the dreadful quarterbacks that play in them, and you quickly come to realize we should never take Tom Brady for granted.

In a pro game that’s changing, a game more suited to passing than it ever was before, if you don’t have a quality quarterback, you virtually have no chance to be any good. Brady is one for the ages, even when he’s not at his best, the reason why the Patriots are the Patriots, even with Bill Belichick’s coaching genius. We are watching one of the all-time great NFL careers playing out right in front of us.

We shouldn’t forget that, regardless of how this season plays itself out.

•The title of Sarah Palin’s new book is “Going Rogue.” Who ever knew Palin was a Rhode Islander at heart, would have been right at home here in a place that all but invented “going rogue?”

•Memo to Rex Ryan: There’s no crying in baseball? Not in football, either.

•The Yankees won more games in November than either the Giants or the Jets have.

•Quiz of the Week: What coach has the most wins in NBA history? (Answer near the end of the column)

•Line of the Week comes from Bill Belichick after nixing any more questions about fourth-and-two: “That’s what we do every week. We turn the page and move on.”

•“Outside the box?” We’ve got a whole culture outside the box.

•Either that or it went rogue on us.

•There’s no truth to the rumor that Charlie Weis called in the Pats’ fourth-and-two play from South Bend.

•Or that the Browns would have trouble qualifying for the BCS.

•You’ve got to love the Titans’ 86-year-old owner, Bud Adams, who flipped off the crowd last week, one of those great, bizarre moments. He got fined a quarter of a million dollars for a gesture Rhode Island drivers use as often as they change radio stations.

•I’ve seen worse movies than “The Men Who Stare At Goats,” but it’s hard to think of one at the moment.

•It didn’t take Allen Iverson long to blow it up in Memphis — just three games, to be exact.

•Drew Brees visited Brown, while a high school quarterback in Texas in 1996, before being offered a scholarship to Purdue.

•The General Assembly went rogue on us a long time ago.

•The Friars can shoot, and that alone not only makes them dangerous, but also figures to make them better than most prognosticators think they’re going to be.

•“The Blind Side” is an excellent book, so follow the dots on the way to the movie.

•Did you see where Kobe Bryant has now scored at least 40 points 100 times in his career?

•And where LeBron wants everyone to stop wearing No. 23 in homage to Michael Jordan, ala Jackie Robinson? Please. Yes, Jordan was one of the all-time greats, but he never did anything that spoke of having a social conscience.

•You know the world’s changed, Bunky, when Foxwoods just missed an interest payment on its $2.1-billion debt. The wonder of it all? No doubt.

•Dyestat has the La Salle girls third in the Northeast in cross country, and the Barrington girls sixth. Hendricken is seventh.

•Speaking of Hendricken, the word is that 24 kids playing high school basketball at other schools around the state last year had started out at Hendricken.

•There’s no truth to the rumor that the new license plate will be: “Rhode Island: The Going Rogue State.”

•Or that Belichick went rogue when he went for it on fourth-and-two Sunday night.

•Kudos to longtime Channel 6 sportscaster Ken Bell, who recently was honored by the New England Academy of Arts and Sciences for his service to broadcasting and the community.

•André Agassi is just the latest superstar to talk about his demons, the ones never mentioned when he was in his prime.

•Mark Arsenault, the former Journal reporter turned novelist, has written his best one yet, a clever mystery set in Rhode Island called “Loot the Moon.”

•Brady Quinn looks so lost he could be in “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” instead of the NFL.

•Although it’s conjectural whether the Browns are really in the NFL anymore.

•One more memo to Rex Ryan: Get inflated by the New York tabloids and get destroyed by them, too.

•The world will never run out of vampire movies.

•Quiz Answer: Lenny Wilkens, the former PC star, with 1,132.

•Going Rogue? We got Amy Fisher at the Cadillac Lounge this weekend, the original Long Island Lolita herself, and what’s more rogue than that?

•Brandon Jennings, the rookie guard who spent his senior year in high school last year playing professionally in Europe, scored 55 points against the Warriors the other night, just in case you missed it.

•What’s up with Pete Carroll the last two weeks, is he having Patriot flashbacks out there in La La Land?

•The ability to make shots in basketball makes up for a lot if ills.

•This column would be longer but I’m “going rogue” this weekend and I’m out of here.

breynold@projo.com