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Adrian Clayborn Jerseys 2019 , the Jacksonville Jaguars found a way to close out Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.The significance of it might not be known for some time.Not even the bold, brash Jaguars would acknowledge it was anything more than a Week 2 win. Others would disagree.Blake Bortles threw four touchdown passes, three in the first half, and the Jaguars beat Brady and the Patriots 31-20 Sunday in a rematch of last season's AFC championship game.The victory — Jacksonville's first in nine tries against Brady — could signal a new favorite in the AFC."Every week is about us," Jaguars All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey said. "We feel like if we're at the top of our game, we can't be beat. They were our opponents, so that's what we prepared for."Bortles threw for 377 yards in the best game of his five-year career.He threw perfect TD passes to Donte Moncrief, Keelan Cole and Austin Seferian-Jenkins in the first half, the second time Bortles has accomplished that feat. Bortles sealed the victory with a 61-yard pass to Dede Westbrook in the fourth quarter.Westbrook took a short pass on a crossing route, made one defender miss and outran another down the sideline and into the end zone. Cole delivered the key block.Cole finished with seven receptions for 116 yards and a score. He made a spectacular, one-handed catch on Jacksonville's second drive and beat Eric Rowe for a 24-yard touchdown three plays later. Rowe was benched.Westbrook's catch-and-run put the Jaguars (2-0) ahead 31-13, allowing them to start celebrating their second victory in franchise history against New England (1-1) and first in the regular season. They hadn't beaten the Pats since January 1999."You have a bad day against a good team, it's a recipe for losing White Jeremy Hill Jerseys ," Brady said. "And we certainly had a bad day."Brady completed 24 of 35 passes for 235 yards and two touchdowns, both to Chris Hogan. He was sacked twice.Brady pleaded with teammates on the bench early. Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels appeared to deliver stern words, too.Just when the Patriots started showing signs of life — they were down 11 and in field-goal range early in the fourth quarter — Dante Fowler stripped Brady. Fowler was making his season debut after being suspended for the season opener."We just obviously didn't do anything well enough or close to well enough to be able to take a win today," Pats coach Bill Belichick said. "It's disappointing to have the kind of day that we had today, but that's what it was, so we'll live with it, own it and move on."STAYING AGGRESSIVEUnlike the previous meeting, Jaguars coach Doug Marrone didn't sit on the lead late.Jacksonville kept throwing, even in the final minutes, and put it on the offense to close out the game.Marrone was widely criticized for getting conservative in the title game. The Patriots trailed 20-10 in the fourth quarter of that one before rallying to win 24-20 and advancing to the Super Bowl.RECORD HEATThe teams played in the hottest game in Jaguars history. Temperature at kickoff was 97 degrees, with a heat index of 107 degrees. According to the NFL, it was the warmest game since Green Bay played at Arizona in 2003.NO FOURNETTEThe Jaguars improved to 4-0 in two seasons without running back Leonard Fournette. Fournette sat out while recovering from a sore right hamstring he tweaked in the season opener at the New York Giants.T.J. Yeldon started in his place and ran 10 times for 58 yards.GROUND GAINSPatriots rookie Sony Michel, a first-round draft pick from Georgia Jeremy Hill Jerseys 2019 , carried 10 times for 34 yards in his NFL debut. Michel is expected to give New England some much-needed help in its running attack.KEY INJURIESPatriots: Defensive end Trey Flowers and safety Patrick Chung, two of the team's top defenders, were ruled out with concussions. Flowers was injured in the first quarter when he collided with teammate Keionta Davis. Chung was injured in the second half.Jaguars: Left tackle Cam Robinson left in the first quarter after injuring his left knee and was later ruled out. Receiver Donte Moncrief, who caught a touchdown pass on Jacksonville's opening drive, left with a knee injury in the third quarter. Defensive end Calais Campbell, questionable to play because of a sore right knee, left after getting poked in his right eye. He later returned.UP NEXTPatriots: Play at Detroit, where former New England defensive coordinator Matt Patricia is now the head coach.Jaguars: Host AFC South rival Tennessee in the second of three straight home games. This past weekend was everything the New England Patriots could have asked for offensively: running back James White carried the team’s offense with 15 catches, wide receiver Julian Edelman added nine of his own for 151 yards, tight end Rob Gronkowski was a beast run blocking and Sony Michel had three touchdowns on 129 rushing yards.Back in October, when the Patriots first played their upcoming opponent — the Kansas City Chiefs —, Michel brought in one of the best games of his short career as he rushed 24 times for 109 yards and two scores. However, even though it is a relatively small sample size White Phillip Dorsett Jerseys , the other three key skill position players on New England’s offense in White, Edelman and Gronkowski have struggled a bit in the past against Andy Reid’s defenses.In three career games versus Kansas City, White has a combined 11 receptions for 98 receiving yards to go along with 19 rushing attempts for 98 yards. Edelman, meanwhile, has only eight receptions in three games for 77 yards and one touchdown. Gronkowski has played in four games against the Chiefs defense and has totaled 11 catches for 257 yards and three scores.The per-game averages for these three against Kansas City in their careers are as followed:All three of these guys are crucial to the Patriots’ offensive operation, not just catching and rushing the ball but also in the downfield blocking game by opening up holes and room for other guys to excel. I have no doubt in my mind that they will be a critical part in Sunday’s hopeful win once again — so all three of them need to be on top of their game once more.One way to get them to do that might be through establishing the run early with Michel. This, in turn, can help open up Edelman and White on underneath patterns and screens and potentially also create space up the middle of the field for Gronkowski to attack the seams.The Chiefs seem to have figured out a way to slow New England’s top offensive weapons down a bit in the past, so coming up with a gameplay to get them going early is crucial for the Patriots this Sunday.