{"id":689361,"date":"2026-01-19T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/689361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:14:14","slug":"fan-notes-from-the-patriots-divisional-playoff-win-over-the-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/689361\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Notes from the Patriots\u2019 divisional playoff win over the Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hey, you guys remember that time the Patriots made the AFC Championship?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No, not that time. Not that time either. That time when the defense played lights out and the offense did just enough to put the game away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No, dammit, that other time. Yeah, that\u2019s the one, that Texans game where they picked off Stroud four times in the first half. You guys remember that? That was awesome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019ll once again close with this: this is fun. I\u2019m having a blast watching the Patriots this season. My expectations have been met, and they\u2019ve been exceeded, and now there\u2019s a chance for this team to do something I thought wouldn\u2019t even be a remote possibility for at least another year or two. So keep on enjoying it. This time next month, there won\u2019t be any more football. So savor every last weird bounce, controversial catch, bad call, and sack dance that you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey, you guys remember that time the Patriots made the AFC Championship? No, not that time. Not that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,91604,1095,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-689361","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-new-england-patriots-playoffs","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-opinion","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115923364461939195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689361","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=689361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}