Drake Maye’s Patriots look like an era-defining team after just 10 games

Mike Vrabel is already a leading candidate for Coach of the Year. Drake Maye is the runaway favorite for MVP. And the Patriots suddenly look like a team with enough firepower to challenge anyone in the league. After five quiet years, New England appears ready to rejoin the NFL elite, and the rest of the league had better hope it took full advantage of the Pats’ downtime. The dynasty chatter is back, and the echoes of the 2000 to 2020 era are getting harder to ignore.

Is it too early to imagine something that big? Maybe. But the numbers, the momentum, the reaction around the league and the history being made are all pointing in a promising direction. Aside from two early losses, the Patriots have put together a surge few saw coming. Their statistical profile is now so strong that oddsmakers are reserving space for them in conversations about feats no team has ever achieved.

A machine on both sides of the ball

With their 33-15 win over the New York Giants, the Patriots became the first team in NFL history to score at least 23 points and allow 23 or fewer in 10 straight games within the same season. Vrabel and his entire staff, on offense and defense, have met every challenge so far. The real tests are still ahead, with the Bills and Ravens remaining on the schedule.

Drake Maye: Twice as good as any other NFL quarterback in history?

Rookie quarterback Maye has been even more impressive than the team-wide turnaround. According to OPTAStats, in each of his last 10 starts, Drake Maye has produced the same remarkable combination of numbers: more than 200 passing yards, positive rushing yards, no more than one interception and more than eight yards per attempt.

Here is the wild part. Throughout NFL history, even the biggest names at quarterback have never done that for more than five consecutive starts. Maye has doubled that streak and is still going. What he is doing is simply on another level.

It is still early in the story, and no one knows how this new chapter of Patriots football will end. But one thing is clear. New England fans can finally relax. At least for now, they have the best quarterback in the game today, and he is changing everything.

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