FOXBOROUGH – Soccer analysts often refer to a well-played match as “beautiful football”.
If you like the Patriots, that’s pretty much what you saw on Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
Granted, the Jacksonville Jaguars won’t remind you of the Vince Lombardi Packers or the Bill Walsh 49ers. But in a game where the Patriots could have come out flat against a team they are tons better than on paper, the Patriots made almost no mistakes, showed tremendous patience and surgical precision, and methodically disposed of the Jaguars, 51-17. Singer Roberta Flack would have been proud of the Patriots; Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley could have left the field singing “killing me softly…”.