Brady and Cassel

After Sundays victory, quarterback Matt Cassel noted that Tom Brady helped him in his preparations for his first career NFL start, which included taking part in the team's Saturday quarterback meeting.

That leads to the question: Might Brady mentor Cassel throughout the season?

Bill Belichick was asked the question during his Tuesday conference call with reporters.

I think that will be true to some degree; we dont have a specific schedule on it or anything like that, Belichick said. Right now the priority for Tom is to rehab and do everything he can to get back to 100 percent, and thats a long process. That will be the priority for him. When thats taken care of, and depending how the schedule falls and so forth, Tom has always been great about helping other players and being part of the team, or whatever were doing.

Last week he came in a little bit at the end of the week, and was in our quarterback meeting on Saturday, and stuff like that. Going forward this week, that might be the same, it might be a little bit different, it will go depending on how his rehab schedule goes and what were doing at the times when hes available.

"So its not a real structured thing, but Im sure Tom will continue to be involved like he always has. To what degree, and what the timeframe is and the structure of it and all that, that is not in place. It will change during the course of the year, too. The things hes doing now, there will be different points in his rehab where there will be different areas hell be focused on, different timeframes and so forth. Well just kind of have to take it as it comes.