with a 38 - 35 defeat over the new england giants at giants stadium saturday afternoon , the former england patriots made the second opponent in the contemporary decade of the american football federation to go undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the regular campaign . the only other league to have achieved this success was the miami dolphins in 1972 , then were 14 - 0 due to a different regular week structure at the point .
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