{"id":708404,"date":"2026-01-27T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/708404\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:42:26","slug":"patriots-had-harsh-words-for-broncos-after-afc-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/708404\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Had Harsh Words For Broncos After AFC Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots defensive lineman Christian Barmore didn\u2019t mince words following his club\u2019s victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the many cool things about winning the AFC Championship\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Barmore, who finished with several pressures during the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatriotsCLNS\/status\/2015600730552291350?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">had plenty to say<\/a> after being asked about his success against an offensive line that was ranked the best in the NFL by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-final-2025-nfl-offensive-line-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pro Football Focus<\/a> \u2014 and specifically All-Pro Quinn Meinerz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst-Team All-Pro. Our coach tells us all the time that All-Pro don\u2019t mean (expletive). Excuse my language,\u201d Barmore said, as shared by CLNS Media. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. Our coaches tell us all the time, they\u2019re All-Pro so they\u2019re targets. He\u2019s one hell of a player, but this is about our team. It\u2019s about the Patriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milton Williams was equally as fired up about his unit\u2019s performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByMarkDaniels\/status\/2015567186698682688?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hyping his own guys<\/a> up to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CameronWolfe\/status\/2015587913766146405?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">anyone who would listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. 1 offensive line can kiss my (expletive),\u201d Williams said on his way back to the locker room following the game, according to MassLive\u2019s Mark Daniels.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByMarkDaniels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody doubted us. Everybody talked about we ain\u2019t this, we ain\u2019t that,\u201d Williams said in his on-field interview with NFL Network\u2019s Cameron Wolfe.\u00a0\u201cThey got the number one offensive line? I want to hear something today. Talk (expletive) today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots certainly have used public perception as a motivating factor throughout their run to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/patriots-super-bowl-lx-opponent-set-following-nfc-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Super Bowl LX<\/a>, and something tells us they\u2019ll receive plenty more bulletin board material over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots defensive lineman Christian Barmore didn\u2019t mince words following his club\u2019s victory over the Denver Broncos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7888,7,7891,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-708404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-christian-barmore","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-milton-williams","11":"tag-new-england","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115965941767376756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708404","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=708404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}