When your season begins with few expectations, anything positive is good. When you take a 2024, 4-13 team to the top of your conference after 12 games, it's very good. Mike Vrabel's 2025 New England Patriots led by the league's possible MVP, quarterback Drake Maye, now sit at the top of the AFC East. They are also the No. 1 seed in the AFC, and they need to hold onto that situation.
The team that Mike Vrabel built has shocked just about every NFL observer as they have stormed to the top of their Division and Conference.