After watching the Patriots enter the vast majority (if not all . . . OK, it was probably all) of their 17 games this season at an obvious talent disadvantage, a severe and chronic case of Roster Envy hardly qualifies as a new affliction for their fans.
Even though the Patriots’ season ended more than three weeks ago, that envy was especially palpable last weekend, when the NFL’s best of the best sorted themselves out in the conference championship games.
The Eagles’ 55-23 throttling of the Commanders in the NFC title game, and the Chiefs’ 32-29 thriller over the Bills in the AFC matchup, set up a rematch of Super Bowl LVII that no one outside of those teams’ markets really wanted.