FOXBORO — Do you remember Tom Brady’s last win as a Patriot?

It was late Dec. 2019, a fourth-quarter comeback.

Because, of course it was.

It was also a Saturday night — yes, a Saturday — when the Pats clinched an 11th straight division title by holding off the playoff-bound Bills. The Patriots were slipping, and they knew it. Buffalo had ascended with Josh Allen. They knew that, too.

Days before kickoff, a few veterans told me they could feel Buffalo nipping at their heels as a division power, maybe even a Super Bowl contender. They were right.

The Bills came 15 yards and 65 seconds short of catching the Patriots that night, then made the playoffs as a Wild Card team. Since then, they’ve dominated the Pats, stomping them each of the last five years while they ran away with the divisio

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