‘If the Patriots win Sunday, they clinch the division, plain and simple. If they lose, well, then the mettle of a team that has feasted on a historically easy schedule will be tested. They have a road game at desperate Baltimore which will likely be difficult, a road game at the pathetic Jets which probably won’t, and then a home finale against the suddenly revived Dolphins which could be tricky depending on whether the Dolphins are somehow still alive in the wild-card race.’