NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out, New England. Here comes Sacksonville.
Tom Brady and the big game-tested Patriots square off against the sack-happy Jacksonville Jaguars next Sunday in the AFC championship game in Foxborough, Massachusetts — with the winner headed to the Super Bowl.
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