This season has already exceeded nearly all expectations from spring/summer, but let's be real: this is still a Boston sports team, and this is when and where things will determine how this year will be remembered.

Sometimes, when things are quite literally falling apart around you, and it's winning time, it's going to be on you to come up and make plays. Drake Maye in the fourth quarter exemplified that to a T and then some. 12/14, 139 Yards, 1 TD, passer rating of 131.8, with a game-sealing first-down scramble to boot.

Baltimore has been... an interesting team this year, to keep it simple. They've won five of their last seven and most recently shut out the Cincinnati Bengals on the road. However, it's clear that even after returning, Jackson is still not at 100% physically...

Was the officiating super great? I wouldn't say so, but the bottom line is the Patriots had plenty of real chances to bury the Bills and couldn't get the job done.

What was once so commonplace that it was simply referred to as "Hat and T-Shirt Day", the Patriots are potentially set to have one of those by doing something they haven't done since 2019: Win the AFC East. They'd do so by defeating the team they did to clinch it that year, the Buffalo Bills, who've been just above water since beating the Kansas City Chiefs at 3-2 in their last five. Outside of their win in Pittsburgh, it hasn't exactly been the prettiest football ever for th

You could tell pretty early on Monday Night that the New England Patriots wanted this win badly. This team looked as fired up and locked in as they've been all year, and took nothing for granted in the opening half as they made big play after big play on offense and special teams, and physically set the tone defensively and took right to the Giants, and more speciffically, QB Jaxson Dart.

I also don't think I need to drive home the point that the Patriots have to be better down by the goalline and in the red zone offensively. The Giants rank 31st as a Red Zone defense on the year; there is ZERO reason why the Patriots, with the talent level they have at the skill spots, and especially at QB should be having situations like last week where they are getting stonewalled with less than a yard till paydirt.

Still no Joe Burrow, who's back practicing but not ready to return after a Week 2 turf toe injury. Additionally, in worse news is that they'll also be without Ja'Marr Chase, as he's been suspended for spitting on Steelers' corner Jalen Ramsey, and without last season's sack leader, Trey Hendrickson...

As far as the simple things in life go, beating the Jets is either right at or very close to the top of said things.

The Patriots haven't been super gung-ho with the PA game outside of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh game, but I think there could be some massive opportunities for Drake Maye on that front with the missing pieces on the other side of the ball.

Even still, this game was ultimately determined by big plays, and simply put, the Patriots had a ton of them. Both of TreVeyon Henderson's 50-plus yard touchdown runs, Kyle Williams 73 73-yard catch and run score, and even a fourth-and-goal Stefon Diggs touchdown with next to no time remaining in the first half.

There hadn't been an "ugly win" to this point in the season for the New England Patriots, but that's probably the best way to describe their one-point victory over the Atlanta Falcons.

A week after the Patriots trounced the top-flight defense of the Cleveland Browns, they now welcome the final remaining top 10 defense on their schedule tomorrow in the form of the Atlanta Falcons.

Please do not take this kid and what he's doing this year for granted. Drake Maye is legitimately having one of the best, if not the best, seasons of any QB in the league through eight weeks.

Despite sitting at a 5-2 record with a perfect road record, New England is once again struggling to find that level of success at Gillette Stadium —and, even more than that, touts the NFL's worst home game record since 2023, at 4-15. Their opponent this weekend, the Cleveland Browns, who've yet to win on the road this year and are 4-17 on the road since 2023...

More or less, yesterday's Patriots win over the Tennessee Titans went just about according to plan. They settled in after a trio of scoring drives by Cam Ward and co., and cruised on with a 31 point afternoon and now find themselves on their first four game win streak in nearly four years, and as the two seed in the AFC behind Indianapolis. Not only did Drake Maye dazzle once again, but the running game, yes, the running game, was gigantic in this win, with Rhamondre Stevenso

There could not have been a funnier weekend for the Patriots and Mike Vrabel to head down to Nashville and take on the Titans.

Even with some beyond atrocious officiating, however, this was nowhere near a "great" team performance, in that the offense stalled for a chunk of the second half, the aforementioned run offense had maybe its worst game of the season, and the Patriots' defense, while not bad on the whole, did give up some bad plays in this one.

Off the most significant win this team has achived this decade, the New England Patriots find themselves set to embark on what, at a visual glance, appears to be a relatively easy stretch of games. Between this weekend and their Week 14 Bye, the combined record of their opponents is 13-27, featuring five times currently dead last in their divisions, and the only division leader they're scheduled to play over this period is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 10.

Ending with no TDs is a little bit of a shame since Maye was legitimately flawless otherwise, but he made no shortage of winning plays, and if you rate this as his definitive career outing, I don't blame you in the slightest. He was absolutely unfazed in one of the toughest road environments in the league, and the Bills had no answers for him.