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Devin McCourty Believes The Patriots Have Found Their Blueprint To Win

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After some glaring early season struggles, and a huge win last week against the Los Angeles Chargers on the road, New England Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty believes the 4-4 Patriots have found their blueprint to win games going forward.

“I think the biggest thing is you gotta learn how to win as a team,” McCourty told Breer. “Obviously (Matthew) Judon knows how to win. I would say even Mac does, being at Bama. We got winners here but you gotta learn how to win as a team. And I think Bill said it earlier this season: It’s about playing well in the critical situations, when offensively they know we need to run the ball and stay in bounds and have good plays. And we do that. …

“I think we’ve learned what our blueprint is,” McCourty added. “We know what we gotta do each week to go out there and play well. Like, we’re not a team that’s just gonna roll it out there. And my whole time being here, we’ve never had that kind of group. So I definitely think we have confidence, and I said it probably a couple weeks ago, you’re record is what it is. That’s who you are. There’s nothing else to really say. There’s a lot of teams who have confidence. It’s about going out and doing it. I think that’s what we’re doing a good job of now.”

McCurdy has been around the block enough times to know when things are starting to go well. Very few veterans have the experience McCourty has accumulated over his 12 seasons with the Patriots including three Super Bowl championships.

“I always try to think of things like: There’s no such thing as ‘uncharacteristic of the Patriots.’ Like, this is a new team,” McCourty said in September. “What guys and teams have done in the past, it really makes no difference to this team because those guys that were doing those things, they’re not here playing right now. So it’s who we are right now. It’s what we’ve put out there. So we better have a sense of urgency to fix those things.”