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Patriots' Brady was in a zone Chargers' porous defense.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The Los Angeles Chargers opened Sunday's AFC divisional playoff game against the New England Patriots in their usual "cover-three" zone defense. For long stretches of the first half in frigid Gillette Stadium, the scheme looked more like a cover-none.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, the 41-year-old veteran who was supposedly slowed by age and a nagging knee injury, sliced and diced his way through the Chargers defense with such little resistance in the first 30 minutes that the Patriots scored 31 unanswered points en route to an easy 41-28 victory.

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