Under Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots had exactly three losing seasons with negative point differential in Belichick's 24 years as the team's head coach and primary shot-caller. There were the 2000 Patriots (5-11, -62), when Belichick and his crew were flipping the roster and establishing a competitive core. And then, there were the 2020 Patriots (7-9, -27) and the 2023 Patriots (4-13, -130), when the post-Tom Brady era really started to bite the franchise in the posterior.
The 2024 season under Jerod Mayo was a holdover and nothing more. This was a team in transition without a true end goal, and the 4-13 record with a -128 point differential was pretty much more of the same.