Having won five straight games to improve to 6-2 on the season, the New England Patriots are quickly closing in on matching their win total from the last two years combined. On Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons, they will be in prime position to get one step closer: whereas the Patriots are running hot right now, their opponent is coming off back-to-back losses that dropped them to 3-4 on the season.

Naturally, a lot of our attention over the last days was on that upcoming game (although a couple of trades demanded to be analyzed as well). For anything else, let’s open up the notebook from the week.

Welcome to the latest edition of our Sunday Patriots Notes.

Josh McDaniels proving himself a home run hire

The first half of last week’s game against the Cleveland Browns was a dogfight fo

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