Mac Jones looks for his second career NFL win against the Saints on Sunday. AP Photo/Adam Hunger
The Patriots are slight favorites to win Sunday's game.
By Eric WilburThe least the NFL could have done was to give us a juicier appetizer.
Heck, a divisional game against the Buffalo Bills might have done just fine. Certainly a team that’s a little sexier than the New Orleans Saints — such as the Dallas Cowboys or the Cleveland Browns — getting pushed up the home schedule might have generated more interest with Football Armageddon on the horizon only one week later.
Instead, the Saints are coming to town and nobody cares.
It’s impossible not to realize the level of challenge that awaits the Patriots, trying to improve to 2-1 before welcoming old friends into Foxborough. Fans and media have already started looking ahead. It’s hard to imagine that some players and Patriots personnel haven’t as well.
Of course, that flies in the face of everything Bill Belichick preaches from his Big Book of Pigskin Cliches. Ignore the noise. One game at a time. Focus on the task at hand. ...
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