COMMENTARY
Midway through their 20th season together, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady have their Patriots in a position where sportsbooks are taking bets on whether New England will finish the regular season undefeated — and there’s apparently people putting money on the possibility. One site, betonline.ag, has the Pats’ odds of going 16-0 at 4-to-1. That’s slightly better than the 5-to-1 odds they give the 7-1 Packers of winning the NFC.
Such faith is based on a dominating half-season in which the Patriots rolled through the competition with an outrageous scoring margin of plus-189, and paired a team on pace to become the 23rd ever to score 500 points in a season with a defense that’s being talked about as maybe among the best ever.