FOXBORO -- The Patriots are coming off of what might qualify as a best-case scenario kind of win over the Browns. They won handily and yet still made enough in the way of mistakes that Mike Vrabel and his coaching staff would be justified in keeping their players on their toes headed into a Week 9 matchup with the Falcons.
Complacency, Vrabel explained this week, is an every-week opponent.
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"That's what we're always trying to do," he said, "is not allow these... good times soften us up mentally and just let things slip that we weren't doing earlier in the season or the way that we prepared, the things that we want to believe in as a team.
"It's always a good reminder, especially in this league where anything can

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