This isn’t an ordinary season finale for the New England Patriots on Sunday.
They’ll be standing across from their AFC East division rivals, the New York Jets, in a game that looks meaningless on paper. It’s a battle of two bad football teams with Bailey Zappe and Trevor Siemian being spotlighted at the quarterback positions.
That isn’t a matchup that’s going to exactly turn heads in a grand finale. But the importance of this game isn’t necessarily weighed in the matchup itself. There are multiple major storylines intertwined in this sendoff game for the Patriots.