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| 1 of 11 After winning a league-record 18 games last season, the Patriots failed to win a championship and history suggests that Super Bowl losers don't fare as well the following season. Only three of the past ten Super Bowl runner-ups made it to the playoffs the following year and there hasn't been a Super Bowl loser make it back to the big game since the Buffalo Bills in 1994. Will Tom Brady and crew be the exception? Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
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