{"id":717142,"date":"2026-01-30T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:30:16","slug":"milton-williams-brings-super-bowl-blueprint-to-patriots-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/717142\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Williams brings Super Bowl blueprint to Patriots defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milton Williams did not expect to be right back in the Super Bowl after signing with the Patriots.<\/p>\n

After winning Super Bowl LIX with the Philadelphia Eagles last season, Williams signed a four-year, $104 million deal with New England following a four-win Patriots campaign. A year later, a dramatic turnaround \u2014 one Williams played a major role in but didn\u2019t necessarily expect to happen quite this fast<\/a> \u2014 has the Patriots back on football\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n

With the veteran defensive tackle back playing for his second straight Lombardi Trophy, he message to his inexperienced teammates is simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep doing what we\u2019ve been doing all year, all playoffs. It don\u2019t change. We don\u2019t care what they run, who they got. It don\u2019t matter. Put the ball down. We got to put our hands and eyes and feet where they supposed to be \u2014 snap in, snap out. Being consistent,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[There\u2019s no difference than just a football game]. That\u2019s where people get in trouble,\u201d he added. \u201cYou go out there, you\u2019re on a big stage, you want to make plays, and then you hopping out your gap, trying to do something you\u2019re not supposed to be doing, and now you\u2019re hurting the team. Now, if one guy ain\u2019t doing his job out of all 11, then they going to score. So, we all got to be on the same page, make the play when it come to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Eagles\u2019 Super Bowl win last season, it was a dominant defensive performance that led the way against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. A talented defensive front pressured Mahomes on 40% of his dropbacks and generated 30 individual pressures.<\/p>\n

Williams played a key role in that performance with four pressures and two sacks — including a strip sack.<\/p>\n

Now in New England, Williams and the Patriots\u2019 pass rush have been a driving force in propelling the team back to the Super Bowl. This time, they\u2019ll look to continue to impact the game by disrupting Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt don\u2019t matter who they got, what they run, what\u2019s the scheme. If we do what we do up front, I always put the game on us and be able to control the line of scrimmage,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThey got a quarterback there just like CJ Stroud. You keep him clean, he can make all the throws. But it\u2019s our job to get back there, speed him up, get him off the spot, try to take advantage and try to make him put the ball in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milton Williams did not expect to be right back in the Super Bowl after signing with the Patriots.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,52113,103282,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-717142","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-first-read","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-super-bowl","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115985476765279305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717142","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=717142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}