COMMENTARY
Five Patriots-focused takeaways from the NFL’s divisional round, which proceeded without Tom Brady and Bill Belichick for the first time in a decade…
Still stuck between regret and acceptance
As the Titans were taking it to the Ravens on Saturday night, it would’ve been perfectly reasonable for Patriots fans watching from New England to feel as though they were coming to grips with having watched their team bow out a week earlier. Tennessee went to Baltimore and validated what they did in Foxborough, and certified its credentials as more than a mere 9-7 wild-card entrant.