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Since taking over the starting duties in 2001, Brady is 25-3 against the Bills with one of those losses, a 16-9 regular season finale

Some final notes and thoughts heading into Sunday’s game.

Since the 2014 season, Tom Brady is 11-0 in October starts with an incredible 33 touchdowns and 1 interception. His passer rating is 124.3.

Brady’s record against teams that Ryan has either coached or been a defensive coordinator on is a stellar 12-4, with 27 touchdowns and eight interceptions.

The Pats passing game is a different one than the Bills faced in Gillette. With Brady back in the fold, the NE passing game is more dangerous than ever.

Ben Roethlisberger requests Tom Brady’s jersey during pregame warmups.

This is another episode with PatsFans.com and Bleacher Report writer Lee Schechter. During the show we discussed Lee’s article entitled Patriots Are Pushing the Limits of the “Bend, but Don’t Break” Defense. We analyzed the Patriots defensive philosophy.

Later on, we previewed the upcoming game with the Bills as we shared our “keys” in this game for the Patriots.

Here’s a look at this morning’s top Patriots-related news for Thursday, October 26, 2016.

There are plenty of division rivalry games in Week Nine. The November schedule starts with Atlanta at Tampa Bay on Thursday 11/3. The Bucs shocked the Falcons 31-24 back in Week One at Atlanta. The Falcons rebounded to win four straight – including back-to-back victories over last season’s Super Bowl participants – but have lost their last two games.

Elsewhere Pittsburgh is at Baltimore for their biannual AFC North slugfest

In this episode, we looked back at the victory for the Patriots against the Steelers, and later on we previewed the upcoming game against the Bills.

Bill Belichick was asked if Lewis was indeed coming back to practice. In typical Belichick fashion, he answered laconically “If he is, we’ll let you know.”

Brown was the AFC Defensive Player of the Week when the two teams met a month ago. He made 18 tackles, had a sack and forced two fumbles.

Here’s a look at this morning’s top stories for Wednesday, October 25, 2016.

It’s not very often that there’s reason to question Bill Belichick, but Tuesday’s bizarre move to jettison A.J. Derby to an AFC rival for essentially nothing could possibly go down as one of the most head-scratching of his tenure.

Rob Gronkowski goes undercover as a Lyft driver fooling passengers.