Welcome to Season 12, Episode 14 of the Unconventional Preview, a serious yet lighthearted, nostalgia-tinted look at the Patriots’ weekly matchup . . .
In late November, the NFL took the unprecedented step of flexing a game — this weeks’ Patriots-Chiefs matchup — off “Monday Night Football.” The reason was obvious, and for those with workspaces within the offices of Gillette Stadium, embarrassing: the Patriots were too lousy to foist upon a national television audience.
A couple of weeks later, it’s too bad the league couldn’t reverse the ol’ flex, because suddenly this one is interesting.