FOXBORO -- With apologies to Tedy Bruschi, after two games, it’s probably OK to be in awe of the Patriots’ offense.

On Sunday, they put 35 points on the Chargers on the way to a 14-point win. It was the second consecutive week New England broke the 30-point barrier, and the Patriots have now scored 30 or more points in 10 straight regular season games dating back to last season. In addition, they’ve put up 73 points and over 1,100 yards of total offense in their first two games this year. Much of the success can be obviously traced back to Tom Brady. The quarterback has 940 passing yards, seven touchdowns, one interception (a fluky tip), and is completing his passes at a 72 percent clip (63-for-88).

But a closer look at the numbers shows that the Patriots have also had great success because they’ve steered clear of negative plays. Through two games this season, New England has run 138 offensive plays and they have just six negative plays -- three sacks and three negative runs (all from running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis), and all of them in the second half of Sunday’s win over San Diego.

In fact, setting aside incomplete passes and kneeldowns, the Patriots have just nine plays from scrimmage this season where they did not finish with positive yardage. (More often than not, when the Patriots have started in longer yardage situation, it’s been because they’ve been flagged with a penalty. In their first two games of the season, the Patriots have been flagged for 15 penalties, tied for eighth-most overall with the Cowboys, and 130 yards, tied for sixth-most with the Titans. For more on that, click here.)

“We’ve had to overcome a couple of second and 15s or whatever they were, longer-yardage situations. That’s certainly not the formula to good drives, but we’ve been able to overcome a couple of those,” said Patriots coach Bill Belichick. “Any time you can stay on track -- first-and-10, second-and-five, first-and-10, second-and-four, third-and-one -- you have a lot better chance of keeping it going than first- and-10, second-and-10, third-and-12; that’s just not the way you want to play.”

Then, there’s the extended drives. The Patriots have been able to string together some impressive sequences over the course of the first two weeks of the season. Overall, New England has had 12 scoring drives this year, and six of them have been 78 yards or more: they have two 99-yard drives, a 92-yard drive, an 80-yarder and two 78-yard drives.

“If you can keep the ball moving forward and stay ahead of the down-and-distance situations and make the defense defend the running game, the deep passing game, the quick passing game, screens, defend everything, then it’s a lot easier to call those plays when you’re not in long yardage situations,” Belichick said. “You don’t have as many options and you can keep the defense more off balance. It still comes down to execution -- blocking, running, passing, catching. The players have done a good job of that.”

One thing that has allowed the Patriots to keep that offensive rhythm is the fact that they’ve frequently utilized the no-huddle. Through two games, the Patriots have been in a no-huddle for 42 of their 138 plays from scrimmage. That includes 27 plays in the no-huddle against the Dolphins and 15 against the Chargers. (Interestingly, the only quarter this season they have not run a single no-huddle play was the third quarter of the San Diego game -- the only quarter all season where they were unable to score.)

Their best stretch in the no-huddle came in the third quarter against the Dolphins, where they ran it the final six plays of a 10-play drive midway through the third quarter, punching in a touchdown from three yards out when Brady found Wes Welker on a quick pass to the left. (That quarter, the Patriots gained 109 yards on 10 plays out of the no-huddle, a season high for New England in both departments.)

The numbers aren’t that dramatically different when the Patriots operate out of the no-huddle -- New England averages 8.3 yards per play when they operate out of the no-huddle, and as a team, the Patriots are averaging 8.2 total yards per play this season). But expect New England to utilize the no-huddle as an option for the rest of the season.

“There’s times where it’s effective -- there were times today when it wasn’t effective,” Brady said of the no-huddle after Sunday’s win over the Chargers. “We’re trying to be efficient about what we’re doing. It’s always something that we talk about, things that we need to execute better, whether its no-huddle, two-minute, four-minute offense, backed-up, going in, red area, third [down], it’s situational football. No-huddle offense is part of our offense, and hopefully we can continue to be efficient with it.”

Ultimately, while Brady continues to post ridiculous numbers, the quarterback said real success of the offense comes from adhering to a complete team concept.

“The better Wes Welker does, the better it’s going to be for Deion [Branch] and Chad [Ochocinco] and the tight ends,” he said. “The better the tight ends do, the better it’s going to be for the receivers. The better the passing game is, the better it will be for the run game. The better the run game is, the better it will be for the fullbacks and passers. Everything feeds off one another.”