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It's been a long road that's led to what could be Bill Belichick's final game as Patriots coach

INSIDEPatriots fall to Jets in season finale, 17-3. XB

There was no Hollywood finish Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

If this was indeed Bill Belichick’s final game as head coach of the New England Patriots, it was rather anticlimactic.

Suffering a 17-3 defeat to the New York Jets wasn’t entirely unexpected. The falling snow was the only scenic thing about this, a 4-13 campaign playing out over a final, disappointing 60 minutes.

We didn’t arrive here over just a few months. This has been a franchise decline years in the making from the juggernaut that captured six Super Bowls and bullied the NFL for two decades.