It’s hard to feel good about the New England Patriots 2025 season after being held scoreless for three quarters on the world’s biggest stage. But, in the grand scheme of things, the Patriots were playing with house money.
Football season has not felt like football season in Foxboro for most of the 2020s.
The Patriots had just one winning season in the previous five years, there wasn’t a single 4,000-yard passer, and it had been seven seasons since the last playoff win.
That changed in year one under head coach Mike Vrabel. But even Vrabel couldn’t have done it without the play from second-year quarterback Drake Maye.
Maye addressed his playoff struggles in Tuesday afternoon’s press conference, but he also took a victory lap, highlighting what the 2025 Patriots did for Boston sports fans.
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“The foundation we set for this city, for this fan base, we kind of got them back and got some energy back in this city,” Maye said. “We talked about in the quarterback room all year long turning this city back up. I think we did that, I think we felt that this year.
“We were in the biggest game at the highest level. The Pats, they said we were back, but we came up a little short. Sometimes that happens, sometimes we wish things would have gone differently. But I can’t say I have any regrets besides not making a few extra more plays.”
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