{"id":669696,"date":"2026-01-11T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/669696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:58:13","slug":"randy-moss-reveals-key-to-victory-for-patriots-vs-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/669696\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Moss Reveals Key To Victory For Patriots Vs. Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/nfl-gameday-crew-unanimously-picks-patriots-beat-chargers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> are back in the playoffs, as they will look to take down the Los Angeles Chargers to advance to the divisional round. One guy who is pulling for them is <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/07\/patriots-icon-randy-moss-names-wide-receiver-on-pace-to-become-greatest-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legendary wide receiver Randy Moss<\/a>, and he believes there\u2019s one key that could help the Pats come out on top in this one.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the regular season, the Patriots dominated their opponents, which is easy to see when looking at their win total of 14. However, they didn\u2019t face many teams that are going to provide them the sort of challenge the Chargers figure to throw their way.<\/p>\n<p>Moss knows what it takes to win on the biggest stages in the NFL, and he\u2019s quite familiar with the brand of football head coach Mike Vrabel wants to play, given that they were teammates during their respective playing careers. When the Pats take the field, Moss is going to look for the team to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNNFL\/status\/2010403193176437071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">display its toughness<\/a> throughout this game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think toughness is going to really show up,\u201d Moss said on \u201cNFL Countdown.\u201d \u201cIt has shown up all season \u2026 I think that you show how tough your team is if you\u2019re running the football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drake Maye\u2019s play under center has drawn a lot of attention this year, but the Patriots have also established themselves as a hard-nosed team that isn\u2019t afraid to get dirty. That should serve them well against a Chargers team that is pretty banged up heading into this contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Anything can happen in the playoffs, but if New England can play its brand of football, it will have a good shot at coming out on top. Kickoff for this contest is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET on Sunday night.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots are back in the playoffs, as they will look to take down the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,8261],"class_list":["post-669696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-football","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots","tag-randy-moss"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115878474964222045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669696","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=669696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}