{"id":445447,"date":"2025-10-14T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/445447\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:17:12","slug":"patriots-in-first-place-in-the-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/445447\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots in First Place in the Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date\">Tuesday, October 14, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">GoLocalProv Sports Team<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-container\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n                    <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pats-bills_256_144_90.jpg\" title=\"LOGOS: NFL\"><\/p>\n<p>                      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pats-bills_256_144_90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      View Larger +<br \/>\n                    <\/a>\n                  <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">LOGOS: NFL<\/p>\n<p>              Improbable?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shocking?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/newsletter\" style=\"display:block;margin-bottom:10px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE &#8212; SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, just reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the Patriots&#8217; win over New Orleans on Sunday, 25-19, followed by the Buffalo Bills&#8217; loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football, 24-14, both New England and Buffalo are 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Patriots beat the Bills head-to-head and thus are in first place in the Division.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This coming week, the Bills have a bye week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pats travel to play the Tennessee Titans, who just fired their coach, Brian Callahan. The Titans are 1-5. Mike McCoy is the interim coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New England coach Mike Vrabel may be seeking a little revenge. The Titans fired him in 2023 after going 54-45 over six seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              Related Articles<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>            Enjoy this post? Share it with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, October 14, 2025 GoLocalProv Sports Team \u00a0 View Larger + LOGOS: NFL Improbable? \u00a0 Shocking? GET THE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[11963,53108,53109,441,7,53103,7249,1167,249,2326,2094,88,6,53110,208,53104,12917,53105,53107,53106,9,1952],"class_list":{"0":"post-445447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-campaign-2014","10":"tag-digital-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-golocalprov","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-new-england","16":"tag-new-england-patriots","17":"tag-newengland","18":"tag-newenglandpatriots","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-ocean-state","22":"tag-patriots","23":"tag-providence","24":"tag-rhode-island","25":"tag-rhode-island-news","26":"tag-rhode-island-politics","27":"tag-rhode-island-sports","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115372008628458611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}