NBC Sports Boston analyst Ted Johnson admits this year’s Patriots team had him buying the hype during New England’s surprising seven-game winning streak.
Then, the bye week happened. Everything changed. On 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Toucher and Rich” morning show Tuesday, the former Patriots linebacker was blunt in his assessment of why that happened.
“They really had an overinflated sense of self. They were feeling it,” he said.
From then on, it was all downhill from there as the Patriots lost four of their last five games, including Saturday’s 47-17 wild-card shellacking against the Bills.
For Johnson, it all started with the team’s Week 15 loss to the Colts in which Indianapolis talked a big game about their plans for the Patriots and delivered on it.