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Getting all the way to the AFC Championship game and coming up short obviously has to be frustrating for a Patriots team who already enjoyed the taste of a Super Bowl just over a year ago.
As Bill Belichick likes to say, losses like that are tough because the treadmill suddenly comes to a stop, abruptly ending the journey before they were able to reach their final destination. All the hard work, the preparation, everything that goes into an NFL season, just like that, is over, concluding a season where their ultimate goal wasn’t achieved.