The NFL has been watching New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick design his maze of blitzes and stunts for decades.

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Pollard, depending upon your tastes, is either the least-perfect or most-perfect player in the NFL to weigh in on this issue: He has been a one-man wrecking crew during his NFL career, injuring New England Patriots players in particular (Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Stevan Ridley are notable victims).

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Baseball's New York Giants won 26 straight games in 1916, the New England Patriots took 21 consecutive NFL games in 2003 and 2004, and the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins won 17 consecutive times in 1993.

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