Entering Week 13, the New England Patriots made the wrong kind of history in terms of NFL television broadcasts.
The Patriots were originally supposed to host the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football in Week 15. Instead, the NFL flexed that matchup to Sunday afternoon in favor of an NFC battle between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Seattle Seahawks. Previously, there had never been a flexed game on Monday Night Football.
The Patriots have been bad enough this season to now take Patrick Mahomes and the star power of the Chiefs out of a primetime window.