The Patriots’ Cordarrelle Patterson scored on a 95-yard kick return in the first half.
CreditNam Y. Huh/Associated PressThe Patriots lost their top running back, Sony Michel, to a knee injury, and committed three turnovers, but they somehow came away with a win.
“It came down to about one yard,” Tom Brady said at his postgame news conference, “but I think for us to get a win on the road is something we’ve been talking about and something we needed to do.”
It was a week that had started with people trying to debate if Chicago’s Khalil Mack had reached the level of Coach Bill Belichick’s former star, Lawrence Taylor.