No matter which way you slice it, the Patriots have fallen off a cliff since Tom Brady left Foxboro, Mass., in 2020. From the eye test to the stat sheet, New England has been a grossly inferior product without the greatest quarterback in NFL history under center.
But the Patriots, with Bill Belichick leading the way, don’t really care about how things look. And they don’t care about how their players fill the box score. All they care about are wins and losses.
To that end, we found a stat that perfectly illustrates the grim reality of New England’s post-Brady era.