Like most football fans in New England, Rob Ninkovich liked what he saw Sunday night in Buffalo .

"We haven't seen that in a long time, and I think the fans in general were so pumped up about that win, because we haven't seen that," the two-time Super Bowl champion told Phil Perry on the latest Next Pats Podcast . "Usually in that moment, they don't come out with the win over the last five years."

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That win improved the Patriots to 3-2, and with a soft schedule ahead, many people are looking at this year's team making a run to the playoffs .

Ninkovich, though, is pumping the brakes. For now, anyway.

"We were just talking about them being a completely different team when they were fumbling five times like two

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