Patriots are just ... well ... different
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FOXBORO The Patriots&#39; minds and bodies hum along at a higher frequency than that which the 31 topsy-turvy teams occupying the rest of the NFL tune into.
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When it comes to switching positions for the good of the team, some players do it comfortably while others, according to Patriots coach Bill Belichick, wouldn't even be asked. &quot;Some players can interchange from position to position seamlessly and you would never know sometimes what their primary spot was,&quot; said Belichick, whose team had a day off from ...
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Any media type daring to ask Bill Belichick about the future of the Patriots might be met with daggers right between the eyes. At the moment, there is tunnel vision, focused on the Indianapolis Colts. Don't dare think or talk about anything else.
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It was not the way the play was drawn up, and the Patriots certainly didn't like the result. Probably only one Patriots player enjoys reliving the moment.
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The perception is that the New England Patriots are awesome, the result of their NFL record 20-game winning streak. In truth, they just win, not overwhelm _ their margin of victory during the streak is just about nine points per game.
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In a part of the country that is steeped in history, New England&#39;s NFL-record, 19-game winning streak might not be recognized with the same reverence as Paul Revere&#39;s midnight
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A group of six Patriots has played together since 1996, no small feat in the era of NFL free agency and constant personnel change.
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What a difference a decade and a pair of Super Bowl championships makes. It was only a decade ago when the Patriots regularly drew the bottom-tier announcers at whichever network was airing their games.
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It was not like the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots needed any extra motivation for their upcoming AFC Divisional playoff tilt against Peyton Manning and the high-powered Indianapolis Colts.
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New England's Tom Brady might not be without faults or shortcomings, but it's almost impossible to find one.
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Three years ago, when the Patriots were starting their run to the Super Bowl, a lot of New England fans suspected something special was percolating in Foxborough, even though the team was only 2-3 going into Game 6.
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Add a little to the fourth quarter mix, and the Patriots seem to take their game up a notch while others often turn scared and run sluggish.
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It doesn&#39;t take a football genius to know that the New England Patriots are an amazing team. The organization&#39;s ability to plug in players and keep winning over the last three years is a model
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The only perfect thing about the Patriots was their record. Now they don't even have that. Dominant in the first half of the season, they survived some close calls afterward. But that finally caught up with them in the Super Bowl and left them facing an offseason of what-ifs and what-will bes.
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The New England Patriots now stand where no NFL team has been before -- at 18-0 and on the precipice of football history after advancing to Super Bowl XLII.
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Last season was . . . well, last season. Which is a long time ago. Or so say the Chargers every time they're asked if bad blood exists between them and the Patriots because of that playoff game in San Diego.
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The New England Patriots' big, brawny and bearded guys were just plain bad.