Week 4 Stock Watch, and If I had told you before the start of Monday night's Pats-Dolphins game that Randy Moss would have zero catches, Chad Henne would nearly double Tom Brady in passing yards (302-153) and the Dolphins would have more than a yard more per carry (4.8-3.7) edge while winning the time of possession battle AND go 10-of-15 on third down what kind of final score would you have predicted?

How about 41-14?

Well, there's no other way to put this -- this has to be the finest special teams effort in franchise history. A kickoff return for a TD, a blocked punt that set up a TD and blocked field goal for a TD? We might be better off forgetting franchise history and figuring out where it stands in league annals. As amazing a performance as it was unexpected.

The Patriots head into the bye week at 3-1 (2-1 in the AFC East,) a record that I think everyone would have signed for at this point before the season started. Still a ton of questions (not sure we learned a whole lot about that defense tonight,) but they are in the mix. 

So here we go. Who is up, down or about the same after Monday night …

STOCK UP

Patrick Chung: The question we've all been asking: Where is THE playmaker on defense? Who is going to do what Bruschi did, or Harrison or Vrabel? Maybe the guy is going to turn out to be Chung, who of course came to New England with a draft pick acquired in the Vrabel/Matt Cassel trade. For my money he was the most consistent player on the defense in the first three weeks, and on Monday night he returned an INT 51 yards for a TD and blocked a pair of kicks. Chung could play in the NFL for a dozen years, have a really good career and never have a game to match this one. Not often a defensive/special teams player helps his team score 21 points.

Brandon Tate: Must See TV. An absolute threat to find the end zone every time a ball is kicked to him, Tate returned the opening kick of the second half (guess to defer was the right move) 103 yards for his second TD of the season (and what a block by Sammy Morris on the play). Also caught four passes for 38 yards. 

Danny Woodhead: There isn't going to be another Kevin Faulk, but tell me you didn't see some of No. 33 while watching Woodhead dominate a 12-play, 70-yard drive that put the Pats up 27-14 in the fourth quarter. Woodhead carried the ball five times for 25 yards on the drive and caught an 11-yard TD pass from Brady that would have fit nicely on a Faulk highlight reel. Not a mascot, not a scrappy underdog story, not a reality TV star, Woodhead is a football player. And that TD drive was really the only spot in the game when the offense needed to come through -- the Dolphins had just marched down the field to cut the lead to 20-14 and the second-half ghosts were starting to stir -- and they breezed into in the end zone and took the home crowd completely out of the game. The rest of the night the offense stayed out of the way, didn't turn the ball over and (for once) let the defense and special teams make the big plays.

BenJarvus Green-Ellis: Doesn't matter if he's a real No. 1 back or not -- not sure what that even means when it comes to the Pats -- but Green-Ellis has been a perfect fit over the last two weeks (32 carries, 174 yards, two TDs). You don't get a lot of filibustering with Green-Ellis, he gets the ball and hits the hole. The anti-Maroney (47 carries, zero fumbles).

Rob Ninkovich: Look, this could have been 21-3 Miami at the end of the first half if not for the pair of Ninkovich picks. The first INT came at the 1:24 mark of the first quarter after the Dolphins had just converted a 3rd-and-11 to move to midfield and the second pick came with just under three minutes left in the half, as the linebacker stepped in front of a pass intended for Patrick Cobbs. Were either of the two catches terribly difficult? Nope, but how many times do we see defensive players drop easy INT's? Ninkovich was in position to make the plays and he made 'em. Throw in a seven-yard sack of Henne in the fourth quarter and you've got a breakout game.

Stock Down:

Randy Moss: This was not a case of Moss "dogging it" -- he ran his routes hard all night long -- and by every account he was a happy camper in the locker room postgame. He's OK (or was on Monday) with being a decoy. But zero catches on Monday (snaps a 51-game streak) and he should have had the pass after the "fake spike" at the end of the first half. Moss now has nine catches on the season (on pace for 36 this year) and has caught as many balls the last two weeks as Rob Ninkovich. I still think he's a sleeping giant (there has to be a 10 for 145 with three TD game lurking, right?) but this is now officially past "slow start" status and somewhere closer to concern.

Sebastian Vollmer: The offensive line had its worst game of the season Monday night, and Vollmer gets to choose if he wants the laser background as the poster boy. Cameron Wake (and how was this guy not drafted?) pushed Vollmer around, particularly when it was actually a completive game. And Matt Light was flagged for a holding call (on Wake) in the first quarter, eliminating a 36-yard Aaron Hernandez catch.