Call it a movement game.

Call it a checkpoint game, as my friend Tom E. Curran did on Patriots Pregame Live .

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Call it a truth-serum game, the kind where you find out what a team really is, as my friend Michael Holley suggested.

Whatever you wanted to call it, Sunday's matchup between the Patriots and the Buccaneers represented an opportunity. It was an opportunity for Mike Vrabel's club to go from being considered a good team -- a team contending for a division title, a team contending for a home playoff game -- to something else.

By beating the Bucs as they did, 28-23 , they now have to be entered into the conversation of championship-contending teams . Call it like you see it. All they've done over t

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