{"id":655354,"date":"2026-01-05T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655354\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:40:15","slug":"patriots-schedule-2026-all-opponents-revealed-for-daunting-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655354\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots schedule 2026: All opponents revealed for daunting slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DUMX3MR6ZJDXFITQ5OZOUIE56E\">Mike Vrabel officially knows who the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/\">Patriots<\/a> will face in 2026, and following a 14-3 regular season, it looks like a daunting slate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AXP5QUXULJHKXO4MB6GV2ZAMWE\">As a division winner, New England has been paired with a number of other first-place teams, and will play some notoriously hostile environments. Beyond that, after getting the NFC South this season, which didn\u2019t feature a team with a winning record, the Patriots move on to the NFC North, which didn\u2019t feature a team with a losing record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ECPDWTHBYNAMLOLOLF5RZ45TUM\">Here\u2019s a look at New England\u2019s 2026 opponents:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XPMUTGOA2ZBNDNKDILBY2BDVQU\">Home: Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Las Vegas Raiders, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EMST3PUA75AQTJGGEOHWQYFUXE\">Away: Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars, Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YK3R7VCB3RFADKYE2DJLKBOCU4\">The 2025 Patriots had the NFL\u2019s lowest strength of schedule (.391), but multiple players scoffed at the notion that they\u2019d played a soft slate. Stefon Diggs was the latest following New England\u2019s 38-10 beatdown of the Dolphins, and Drake Maye was also dismissive when asked about it last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QJXNUVYDX5EFZD3DPSW4STTSDQ\">\u201cWe play in the National Football League. Every team\u2019s got great players. They get paid a lot of money,\u201d Maye said on Wednesday. \u201cSo, it\u2019s not like we\u2019re playing, shoot, Foxborough High School down the road. We play who\u2019s on our schedule. We can\u2019t control that. Just trying to go out there and try to win. A lot of these teams that we do play are good, and they\u2019re in the National Football League for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel officially knows who the Patriots will face in 2026, and following a 14-3 regular season, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-655354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115841363432299644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655354","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=655354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}