00:00the patriots can lock up the division on sunday hat t-shirt game if it were if they lose it's not
00:08like the division's gone we were reading through some of dan graziano earlier today uh but basically
00:13the the shorthand version of it is the patriots really would need to go one and three down the
00:18stretch with games remaining against the dolphins and jets and baltimore throw them on the list
00:22although the dolphins are playing pretty well smoke the jets yesterday baltimore is six and
00:26seven jets are six and uh dolphins rather six and seven jets have three wins pats would really
00:32for all intents and purposes need to go one and three so they're likely to win the division
00:36but the stakes beyond this are uh i think significant even if you still win the division
00:42but you lose this buffalo game people like cam newton are going to hold that against you if you
00:46care to be the best you got to beat the best dot dot dot two times you're also going to lose ground
00:52in theory on the broncos who have a tough finishing kick so this is a game to again you're sitting
00:59there coming off the bye week healthy at home send a message to the rest of the league send a message
01:04to yourselves this is a championship caliber game according to vrabel you'll hear that coming up
01:09so get another pelt on the wall against an afc contender who by the way i don't think is playing
01:15great they won yesterday i wouldn't say they played great alan was great yeah they as a team were not
01:20great so i think it's more about those level of things than it is about the division although
01:27you beat the bills you can officially kick them down to the wild card and put them in the rearview
01:32mirror and now just solely focus on denver yeah and it's a it's a home game so you have an opportunity
01:36to clinch the division and it's not like you need help from somebody else or you're waiting around for
01:41a score or all that like you beat them you win the division very simple in fact i don't know how often
01:47that even happens right unless it's like the last week of the season sometimes you get like that
01:50showdown like you win and you're in because a lot of times it's waiting around and seeing like who
01:54beat who and what the tiebreakers are and everything else so you can wrap that up and for me i think it
02:00would be like so much would have to happen between now and the end of the season for them not to win
02:06the division that it's more about keeping pace with denver and making sure that you're the number
02:11one seed because that's also within your reach
02:14you
02:14you
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