Patriots-Jaguars Stats & Fun Facts
BOSTON (CBS) -- Need some help getting fired up for this weekend's Patriots-Jaguars matchup? Here are some stats and fun facts to get you ready!
- The Patriots look to start the season 3-0 for the ninth time in team history.
- The Pats have won all six regular season meetings against the Jaguars dating back to 1996.
- This will be the 11th overall meeting between the Pats and the Jaguars, with New England holding a 9-1 advantage.
- The last time the Pats played the Jags was in 2012. The Patriots won 23-16 in Jacksonville.
- Tom Brady needs just one more passing touchdown to join the 400 club. There are only three other members in this club right now in Peyton Manning, Brett Favre and Dan Marino.
- Brady has 65 career games where he's thrown for over 300 yards.
- With a touchdown last week against the Bills, Rob Gronkowski has now caught a touchdown in eight straight games. With one more touchdown, he will have 60 for his career, second in team history behind Stanley Morgan.
- Gronk and Brady have hooked up for 57 touchdowns. That's the second most all-time between a quarterback and a tight end, behind only Phillip Rivers and Antonio Gates, who have connected for 72 touchdowns.
- Julian Edelman has seven regular season games with at least 10 catches. He needs just four receptions to move into the Top 10 in team history.
- Last week in Buffalo, the Pats defense recorded eight sacks. It's the most sacks they have had in a game since September 2003 against Philadelphia.
- Chandler Jones had three sacks last week. It marked the sixth time in his career that he's had a multi-sack game.
- Stephen Gostkowski has made 419 consecutive extra points, the second most in team history. He also owns the team record with 14 field goals from 50 yards or more.
- Patriots old friend Sergio Brown plays safety for the Jaguars. He was the one that Rob Gronkowski threw out of the club last year in Indy.
- New England has a 231 game sellout streak.
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