Listening to “Locked On Patriots” podcast this morning, I heard Murph point out that Sunday was the Patriots fourth one-score loss this season. My math figures this team was a ‘Jakobi Meyers for JuJu Smith Schuster’ swap away from being 6-3 instead of 2-7. Still doesn’t add up to more than going one-and-done in the playoffs but it would mean they at least beat the teams they should have beaten and given fans something to feel good about.
A 6-3 record probably wouldn’t do much to stem the hair-on-fire Pats fan going off on social media about the team being average -instead of what they are now.