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|December 21,2015

IN A 30-HOUR span in September, just before the opening game of the NFL season, two seemingly contradictory narratives of Bill Belichick’s Patriots entered the zeitgeist. The first was an example of how the Patriots win dirty, detailed in a pair of stories: One appeared in Sports Illustrated; the other, co-authored by Don Van Natta Jr. and yours truly, titled “The Patriot Way,” showed how Deflategate was a “makeup call,” in the words of an NFL owner, for Spygate in 2007, a scandal far worse than the public ever knew. The second narrative was an example of how the Patriots win smart—an NFL Network special that aired a day later called
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