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Patriots clinch first last-place finish since 2000

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If 2023 becomes Patriots coach Bill Belichick's final year in New England, he'll exit with a strange set of bookends.

Sunday's loss to the Bills clinched New England's first last-place finish in the AFC East since Belichick's first year on the job, in 2000.

That year, the Pats went 5-11.