Hours after the New England Patriots vanquished the Houston Texans last Sunday to advance to the AFC Championship Game, it seemed like old times at Gillette Stadium, where the giddy chatter was still bouncing off the cinder block walls in the tunnels underneath.
"It's not supposed to happen this fast!" one security guard said to another.
He's right. Teams aren't supposed to be able to miss the playoffs three seasons in a row, finish 4-13, change head coaches for a second straight year ... and then go 14-3 en route to the Super Bowl. And it's especially not supposed to happen this soon after the end of one of the great sports dynasties we've ever seen.
But the Patriots have done just that, clinching a trip to Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 with a 10-7 win Sunday over the Denver Broncos. And a big part of the reason they've …
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