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Why it’s a good thing the Patriots are no longer pursuing perfection

COMMENTARY

It was the best, worst loss that the Patriots could have hoped for.

Oh, in the grand scheme of things, there’s nothing else that New England head coach Bill Belichick would have liked to leave Baltimore with Sunday night other than a win over the Ravens.

But he probably got more.

The 2019 New England Patriots, finally, learned a little bit about themselves during their 37-20 loss to the flashy Ravens, a game filled with enough blunders to provide Belichick with coaching material to last him until February.

Against real competition, they blew it.