boston.com - 8/23/2008
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If you believe your eyes, then the Patriots are in trouble. But if you listened to what they said in the wake of a third straight lackluster preseason performance, a 27-17 it-wasn't-as-close-as-the-final-score drubbing by the Philadelphia Eagles at Gillette Stadium last night, then things are not as bad as they look in this awful, 0-3 preseason.
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Around the AFC East: 0-3 Pats not panicking
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog —
... Boston Globe reporter Christopher L. Gasper writes the Patriots aren't in a tizzy over their 0-3 record: "Right now, as far as we're concerned we're 0-3 in the preseason," CB Ellis Hobbs said, "but we're still 0-0." ...
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