While the New England Patriots were able to kick their feet back and enjoy their first football-free weekend of the regular season, the rest of the NFL was quite busy. A total of 11 games were played on Sunday, bookmarked by additional primetime contests on Thursday and Monday.
This, in turn, gave us an opportunity to expand our view on the league as a whole a bit: for once, the focus was not entirely on Foxboro but rather what was going on around the NFL. So with that in mind, here are some Patriots-centric takeaways from Week 14 of the NFL regular season.