Quite simply, the odds are not in the Patriots’ favor as far as making the playoffs after the team fell to 2-4 with Sunday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
As Mark Daniels of The Providence Journal tweeted, only 19 of 205 teams (9.3 percent) that started a season 2-4 have made the playoffs since 1990. The Patriots themselves have had three 2-4 teams since then and have failed to make the playoffs any of those times.
But CBS football analyst and WFAN host Boomer Esiason isn’t throwing in the towel on Bill Belichick, Mac Jones, and this New England squad just yet.