{"id":710016,"date":"2026-01-27T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710016\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:08:16","slug":"countdown-is-on-as-new-england-patriots-gear-up-for-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/710016\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown is on as New England Patriots gear up for Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown officially begins, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl bound!<\/p>\n<p>The AFC champs had a warm welcome home despite the frigid temps at Gillette on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be better, we have to be better. We have to play one of our best games, if not our best games, against Seattle,\u201d said Coach Vrabel as he addressed media crews at Gillette on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez says he has no superstitions, but he\u2019s taking in the moment he\u2019s pictured as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know you just dream of it, sitting there as a little kid you know knowing you want to go to the NFL,\u201d said Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really good to see that they\u2019re back, that they\u2019re playing like they used to play and Vrabel is the reason; he\u2019s got these guys all brought into his program, they\u2019re playing terrific. Every guy is doing their ultimate, is playing the best they could, and we couldn\u2019t ask for anything more,\u201d a fan tells Boston 25 News.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/have-new-device-get-our-free-boston-25-news-weather-apps\/PDC6X7UKOFDBVPV5YJHG3CX36I\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE Boston 25 News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE Boston 25 News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Boston 25 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Boston25News\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boston25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/video\/live-stream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch Boston 25 News NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch Boston 25 News NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The countdown officially begins, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl bound! The AFC champs had a warm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[6032,103056,7,30771,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-710016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-christian-gonzalez","9":"tag-coach-vrabel","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-gillette","12":"tag-new-england","13":"tag-new-england-patriots","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patriots","18":"tag-seattle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115969583032828420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710016","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=710016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}