Patriots 2024 Predictions

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3-4.

They will win 1 or 2 division games and they will grab 2 more wins among these 3 games: Titans, Cardinals or Chargers.

Bring on the 2025 draft. :coffee:
 
I'll be generous and say 7-10.
Team starts poorly but they Start Maye in England week seven to face the Jaguars led by their qb Mac Jones.
 
I reserve the right to change this depending on how they look the first few weeks, but will say 4-5 BUT we see steady improvement in the offense, particularly if Maye gets in by mid season. We feel like they are headed in the right direction and they just need to continue restocking the talent.
Mayo seems like a competent coach by end of the year and AVP is deemed ok-to-decent but we'll be wondering - perhaps due to lack of overall offensive talent - if he's the right person for the job.
 
I'm saying 2, reserving the right to revise my pick to '0' after this week.

Both the offensive and defensive lines are worse, boundary corner is worse, and a coach who isn't allowed to make a decision on his own, and meddling from the front office. It could get very, very ugly.

Also, the Jets don't have Zach Wilson to kick around anymore, even if Rodgers gets hurt, they should be able to run any below-average backup out there and kick our ass.
 
I looked at power rankings recently, and was expecting them to be ranked #32. They were 31, ahead of Carolina.

...but, if memory serves, they didn't look exactly dominant against Carolina...who (again, if memory serves) was sitting most of their starters.

I think there's an outside chance of a win in week 1 or 2. After that, I don't see a decent chance of a win until weeks 9/10 against the Titans and Bears, but those are both on the road. Colts at home, maybe, or after the bye @ Cardinals?

2-3 sounds pretty reasonable to me. But the NFL is a weird animal, and a QB or two going down, leading to a 3 pick game...who knows?
 
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HSanders said:
neither coordinator has ever called plays before.
very green hc with no clock management experience.
2 wins
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This is important and currently being underrated. Potential wins are likely to be very close games, not blowouts. In very close games things like timeouts, clock management, and situational football are magnified.
 
I'm going with 3 and I actually hope it is a low number. Then we draft linemen the first 3 or 4 rounds, setting us up for most improved team next year.

This year is get some starts for Maye and the talented rookie WRs we drafted.

Note: of course in 2001 I remember reading how we were ahead of schedule by a couple of years. That would be nice too. I don't see that happening, but if I'm wrong, I hope I'm very wrong. Worse thing would be a .500 club, middle of the road draft pick.
 
I don't see any teams on the schedule that we should beat, so the quick answer is 0 wins.
But the NFL being the NFL and any given Sunday being a real thing, situational luck and the D may win a time or two so I'll go through the schedule game by game.

Like Tommy, I reserve the right to change my mind after week 2. I'll also rethink this if/when Maye begins starting.

I count 9 sure losses.
5 Away: Cincy, Jets, SF, Miami, Buffalo
4 Home: Miami, Houston, Jets, Rams

That leaves 8 games with a possibility of being situational wins.
Jax, Tenn, Chicago and AZ away.
Seattle, Indy, Chargers and Buffalo at home.

AZ seems to be the best bet for a win. Tenn could also be a win.

Seattle could be a win.
Indy has Anthony Richardson healthy but it's at home. That's a poss. win but a probable loss.
Jim Harbaugh's Chargers in the 2nd to last game of the season should be competitive. I'm not a fan of Herbert but realize Jim's teams play tough.
Buffalo at home in the last game of the season could be competitive IF Buffalo has nothing to play for.

I'm comfortable predicting 3 wins.
1st win will be week 2 against Seattle.
2nd win will week 9 in Tenn.
3rd win will be week 15 at AZ.
A 4th win could be one of Indy, the Chargers or Buffalo (if Buffalo rest their starters) in the next to last and last games of the season.

As always, injuries can change things quickly.
 
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I'm going with 3 and I actually hope it is a low number. Then we draft linemen the first 3 or 4 rounds, setting us up for most improved team next year.

This year is get some starts for Maye and the talented rookie WRs we drafted.

Note: of course in 2001 I remember reading how we were ahead of schedule by a couple of years. That would be nice too. I don't see that happening, but if I'm wrong, I hope I'm very wrong. Worse thing would be a .500 club, middle of the road draft pick.
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They still need a #1 WR…but LT is a must need higher than a # 1 WR.
 
Impossible to tell until after the first few weeks ... Maye starting at some point could also change things as well.
 
Difficult to predict with so much unknown going into it. My optimistic prediction would be 7 to 8 wins but if all we get by the end of the year is a certainty that we have a legitimate franchise QB we can build around, I’ll be happy with that. QB is by far the most important thing a team needs to have sustained success in today’s NFL, I think we all understand this. Everything else, is pretty meaningless if you don’t have the QB.
 
I'm in the 7 to 10 range:
1. They had extreme bad luck (as well as easy to fix self inflicted wounds) in 2023: a) Had most players on IR (also Jack Jones). b) Had cluster-F situation with owner and coach. c) Worst QB play in the league turned a bad hand into a complete dumpster fire. d) Kicker had worst FG conversion rate in the league.

I believe that with average injury luck, and with even slight improvements from QB and K that they would've averaged (simulatios) 7 to 8 wins last year.

They started this offseason with the most cap space and the most draft capital that they've had in recent memory. They kept the most productive players (for the most part) and replaced them with draft picks and low cost FAs.

While the team is lacking stars, they have a good number of decent football players, especially on defense. The state of offense will largely depend on how rookies perform as well as the OL, but it'snot hard to imagine each unit being improved except for the OL. I think the line will be below average but not the disaster that we saw in the last preseason game. Lowe has improved and is better at LG, and Okorafor and Wallace will be better than what most expect (still not great).

I think the coaching will be adequate, but not spectacular.

The good news: most likely they'll be improved this year.

The bad news: I'm not confident that Mayo will be able to take the team from good (ok) to great, which can be worse than having a bad team and moving on quickly from a coach and gm, and instead being stuck in the NFL purgatory of decent to good for the foreseeable future with no championships.
 
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