FOXBOROUGH – Feminist Gloria Steinem became famous largely for her famous anti-men statement, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
In Foxborough, it reads like this: The Patriots without Antonio Brown is like a fish without a bicycle.
Lament his demise if you wish, but Sunday’s 30-14 win over the New York Jets on Sunday at Gillette Stadium further underscored how little they needed him. The Patriots scored 63 points in two games without Brown, and 43 points with him, but 14 of those 43 points came on defensive touchdowns. Brown, who was released on Friday when his menacing text messages aimed at a second woman who accused him of sexual harassment surfaced, turned out to be a luxury rather than an important element of the Patriot offense.