FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Here, inside the New England Patriots’ locker room, there is a singular focus. As has become typical in the third week of January, the team has trained its collective sights on making another trip to the Super Bowl.
The Patriots are playing in another AFC Championship Game on Sunday, and no one in the organization wants to be the guy – more accurately, that guy – who deviates from the week’s objective. To do so would be to risk incurring the wrath of infamously-unquotable coach Bill Belichick.
They’re here to talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars and nothing else.