Twenty-seven thoughts on the Patriots’ 27-13 victory over the Browns …
1. The symmetry of it all was pretty cool. Patriots coach Bill Belichick earned his 300th victory Sunday with a mostly suspense-free win against the Cleveland Browns, the team with which he earned his first coaching win on September 8, 1991. The losing team that day? The Patriots, naturally, who fell to Belichick’s Browns in Week 2 of the ’91 season, 20-0, despite [checks notes] 95 passing yards from Tommy Hodson.
2. That was a generation ago, with so many Belichick-directed good times in Foxborough since.