With the AFC East wide open, where do the Patriots fit in?

We are back from the bye week, in what was an exciting weekend of football. We witnessed the first NFL game in history played in Germany, and the game of the year between the Vikings and Bills. With the Patriots set to see both the Vikings and Bills in the coming weeks, what did you take away from that game from a Patriots standpoint? With the Bills falling to the Vikings, the AFC East is all mixed up. Where do the Patriots fit in? Given their strength of schedule remaining, where do they fit in when looking at the play off picture?