If folks weren’t taking these New England Patriots seriously before, they certainly have to be now.
It’s time to cancel all the easy strength of schedule chatter. Mike Vrabel’s squad didn’t only win its seventh game in a row on Sunday — it went on the road and slayed a Tampa Bay Buccaneers team that entered with a 6-2 record, was coming off a bye week, and had only lost to NFC powerhouses Philadelphia and Detroit this season.
The Patriots improved to 8-2, and it’s hard to see their current surge ending anytime soon.