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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.

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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

- 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.

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Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)

- 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.

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Chandler Jones sacks Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor in Week 2 of the 2015 NFL season. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

 

- 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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Tune in to Sunday's Patriots-Jaguars game on 98.5 The Sports Hub and WBZ-TV — the flagship stations of the New England Patriots. Pregame coverage on 98.5FM begins at 10am, with a full postgame show following the game. WBZ-TV's coverage begins with Patriots GameDay at 11:30am, and after the switch to myTV38 for Patriots 5th Quarter!

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