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This is the first time since 2010 that the Patriots didn't at least advance to the AFC Championship Game. The team's 42-year-old quarterback is about to become a free agent for the first time in his two-decade career. New England has already lost one long-time assistant in special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach Joe Judge and could well lose another in offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Josh McDaniels.
There have been no shortage of pundits speculating that Saturday's home loss to the Tennessee Titans was it—the end of the line for the Patriots as the big bad bullies of the AFC.