[F]or players in that locker room, what you’re doing is buying time. You’re buying more time to improve, especially when it comes to pass coverage. This team will continue to get better. The coaches are making changes, trying to find the answers, such as moving cornerback Devin McCourty to safety. But I think this would be the right way to look at it: While you have these problems, and you see coach Belichick doing everything he can to fix them, you still won a game, and you are still in first place in your division. That’s a sign of a good team, that when you have a glaring weakness – which is what we’ve seen in the secondary with giving up the deep ball – you’re still able to squeak out a win and make the play when you really need it.
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