FOXBOROUGH --- Although the calendar clearly indicated it was still Sunday night, Bill Belichick reminded his team after its 59-24 demolition of the Indianapolis Colts to mentally fast-forward their body clocks to Wednesday night.

Given the short week of preparation for Thursday night’s road game against the New York Jets on Thanksgiving, the Patriots’ coach wanted his team to be prepared to deal with the mental and physical challenges of compressing a full week’s worth of preparation for an NFL game into a few days.