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Bill Belichick is in his 23rd year of coaching the Patriots. That’s 364 regular-season games.Β Last night, the Vikings connected on a higher percentage of throws than any other team had in 362 of them.

Via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com, the Vikings generated a completion percentage ofΒ 81.6 percentΒ on Thursday night. It came on 31 of 38 throws, with quarterbackΒ Kirk CousinsΒ going 30 for 37 and receiverΒ Justin JeffersonΒ throwing a pass on a gadget play toΒ Adam Thielen. That’s theΒ second highest completion percentageΒ in any game against the Patriots, with Belichick as the head coach.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/11/25/vikings-have-second-highest-single-game-completion-percentage-against-bill-belichicks-patriots/

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Next year, the NFL should start a new formula for determining the teams outside of Detroit and Dallas that play on Thanksgiving in a given year.

Detroit and Dallas in the afternoon would host the home opponents on their schedules that have the longest active Thanksgiving droughts.

The first team for the night game would be the team not playing Detroit or Dallas that has the longest such drought, and the opponent on their schedule who has gone the longest without playing on Thanksgiving would play them.

Under this formula, this year the games would have been Jacksonville at Detroit, Tampa Bay at Dallas, and LA Rams at Kansas City. The Jaguars would have made their first ever Thanksgiving appearance, while Tampa Bay and Kansas City would be appearing for the first time in 16 years, and the Rams in 47 years.

Currently, the 2023 home opponent for the Lions with the longest active Thanksgiving drought is Denver, which last appeared in 2009. For Dallas that team is the Rams, who last appeared in 1975.

After those teams, the longest active Thanksgiving drought belongs to the Browns, who last appeared in 1989. They just happen to have the Jaguars scheduled to come visit in 2023.

So, for the moment, next year's Thanksgiving games should be Denver at Detroit, LA Rams at Dallas, and Jacksonville at Cleveland. The latter game would be a matchup of QBs who grew up rooting for the Falcons.

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On Thursday, the Patriots:

*scored 25+ points
*gained 400+ yards
*outgained their opponent
*completed 70% of their passes
*had less than 60 penalty yards
*had 0 turnovers
*had 0 missed fg's

NFL teams in the Super Bowl era have been 170-0 when having those stats.

OpaSTATS.com

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The Vikings are the only team in those 171 games to beat that streak.

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