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When something is underrated, it won't stay that way forever. At a certain point, it becomes so underrated, it's overrated. But the pendulum always swings back, and it's swung on the , who, after , are actually an underrated team. That's crazy and dumb and many weird things, but it's still true. Bill Belichick and don't get enough credit for what they do. This isn't the 1970s; players aren't full-blown indentured servants. Brady and Belichick are winning division title after division title after division title after repeat until infinity because the Patriots operate on a different level from everyone else. Here's the Pats' finishes in the AFC East since Belichick showed up: Fifth in 2000 (back when the AFC East still had five teams), then 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.  That fifth-place finish is a big old fat sore thumb. The twos are a bit awkward as well, mainly because there's one of them shoved in the middle of a stretch of ones. Just first and first and first over and over again.   We just a sume the Patriots will show up and win the title every year. Take away Brady for four games? No big deal. out for the year? No sweat. Trade multiple top defensive players in the last two years? Move along, people, nothing to see here. New England Tom Glavine Jersey  wasn't dominant on Sunday against the . It was in stark contrast to the home win over the last week when Brady rolled up 400 pa sing yards. On Sunday, the greatest quarterback of all time averaged le s than six yards per attempt and barely completed 50 percent of his pa ses. He had a lower pa ser rating than Trevor Sieman. And the Pats still strolled out of Denver with a division title, a first-round bye and a cla sic "Do Your Job" type of win. It's funny that they would lock up the division this way too, because the Pats of yesteryear, the first team Belichick and Brady took to the Super Bowl, were a bunch of no-name guys winning in different ways.   This Patriots team isn't that different, except everyone knows Brady and Belichick now. The greatne s is expected because that's what they do. The Patriots are the boat beating against the current, ceasele sly into the past R.A. Dickey Jersey , except there's no time to wonder about yesterday because the page is consistently being turned towards tomorrow and the goal of winning another Super Bowl. There probably won't be another MVP award for Brady this year. And there probably won't be that bizarrely elusive Coach of the Year award for Belichick, even though he's making more with le s in 2016. It's just the Patriots doing Patriots things as they move back into the realm of the underrated.  Here are five more takeaways from Sunday's Week 15 action.1. A Savage situation It takes a big man to admit a mistake. It takes a really big man to admit a $72 million mistake. Bill O'Brien is a big man, and yanked , e sentially acknowledging the gave $72 million in offseason money to a guy who is the worst quarterback in football. That's mean, but how can you sugarcoat it? Osweiler was terrible Sunday, just like he was the Sunday before that and the Sunday before that and the -- well, just repeat that 11 times and the picture becomes incredibly clear. The most remarkable thing about Osweiler's benching wasn't that it took so long for this to happen -- and that was remarkable considering how terrible Osweiler was throughout this season. The most remarkable thing was how good looked when he came in and took over. Tom Savage!   It's not hard, either. Savage did the obvious and absolutely  Jose Ramirez Jersey force fed the ball to .   Hopkins in Week 15   Targets   Receptions   Receiving Yards   Yards/Catch   TD     With Savage   15   8   87   10.9   0     With Osweiler   2   0   0   0.0   0     A year removed a 1,521-yard season, Hopkins was supposed to explode with the addition of Osweiler in the lineup. He'd been catching balls from , , Savage and an a sortment of terrible quarterbacks. Somehow this was just the second game over 80 yards on the season for Hopkins. He had five such games before Halloween last year.   It's not like Osweiler hasn't tried to force Hopkins the ball before. He had double-digit targets in four different games this season and now has 116 on the year. That's a far cry from his 192 last season, but he's had the ball thrown his way. Osweiler just isn't accurate. He handed the rookie's first career interception on a horrific pa s, just an absolute airmail to .. will take that!It's his FIRST career INT!  NFL (@NFL)  That wasn't even the pa s that got Osweiler benched. It was merely the straw that nearly snapped the camel's back. The pa s Osweiler threw just a few minutes later -- literally the first pa s attempt after Houston got the ball back -- was even worse, and it David Justice Jersey  was enough for O'Brien to call the dogs off and bring in Savage.   Pulling his starter rejuvenated the Texans offense, which suddenly started finding some rhythm, started targeting its top player and began moving down the field. Playing football is hard, but it's not rocket science if you're O'Brien here. You can't go back to Osweiler. By any reasonable metric, Osweiler's been the worst quarterback in football. He has a sub-60 percent completion percentage (59.6) and more interceptions (16) than touchdowns (14), isn't averaging more than 200 yards per game (193.1) and is averaging a pathetic number of yards per pa sing attempt (5.8).   Savage isn't some savior. He will make le s on his contract than Osweiler makes per game from the Texans this year.Tom Savage replaces Brock Osweiler.Savage has $300,584 guaranteed in his current dealOsweiler has $37,000,000 guaranteed in his deal ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo)  We hear all the time that football is a "results-oriented busine s." The results are right there in black and white. Osweiler can't start if the Texans want to win the AFC South and have any shot at moving forward in the playoffs.2. More proof we need full replay  Every week there's a case for the NFL instituting a replay system that allows the league office and the officials watching all the games from New York to step in and say "Pardon me, but you screwed this up royally, so stop playing so we can fix this."    There isn't much of a better example than the egg job by officials in the Lions-Giants game, when they awarded , Jr., a catch .The refs gave the Giants a catch on this play. This is the ball on the ground  Isaac (@WorldofIsaac)   Screengrabs can be deceiving but this was not some accident. This was a total botch job by the officials.  Now, the only situation here in which the can prevent this from being a catch is to challenge. In other words, the onus is on the Detroit Danny Santana Jersey  coaching staff to fix what should be a obvious call. There are refs staring right at Beckham. What are you looking at, guys?   This is the perfect scenario for a Replay Overlord to swoop in and fix the i sue at hand. There was very obviously a situation that could have been fixed by someone simply buzzing