with a 38 - 35 victory over the new york giants at giants stadium thursday night , the particular england patriots became the 2nd team in the ancient era of the national first nfl to been undefeated ( 16 - 0 ) in the early competition . the only other team to have achieved this feat was the miami dolphins in 1972 , and were 14 - 0 led to a different annual campaign structure at the period .
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