{"id":719840,"date":"2026-01-31T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:13:19","slug":"milton-williams-makes-funny-patriots-admission-before-super-bowl-lx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719840\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Williams Makes Funny Patriots Admission Before Super Bowl LX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots can re-establish themselves as a popular team to hate by igniting another dominant era with a Super Bowl LX win over the Seattle Seahawks. Not all of their current stars grew up idolizing the dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Milton Williams confessed on Thursday, via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NicoleMenner\/status\/2016963891734204568\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBC 10 WJAR\u2019s Nicole Menner<\/a>, that he wasn\u2019t a Patriots supporter at the height of their success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always tell people this, and y\u2019all gonna kill me when I say this, but I did not like the Patriots,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>The defensive tackle still didn\u2019t resent Tom Brady as much as some other NFL fans. Williams, who <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/patriots-have-five-players-with-super-bowl-experience\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won a Super Bowl<\/a> with the Philadelphia Eagles last year, appreciates the seven-time champion even more after experiencing the grind as a player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t a Tom Brady hater,\u201d Williams insisted. \u201cWhen somebody always wins, it\u2019s like, man, let somebody else win. But when you really get in it and you understand what comes with it, and the work you got to put in to consistently be doing it over and over again, you really can\u2019t say nothing. He\u2019s one of the best to ever do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Williams wasn\u2019t always a Patriots fan, but that changed once he signed a four-year, $104 million contract last offseason. They\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/jason-kelce-celebrates-pitbull-patriots-defensive-standout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gotten their money\u2019s worth<\/a> from the 26-year-old, as Williams hasn\u2019t played in a loss since Week 3.<\/p>\n<p>The former third-round pick has clogged the running lanes for New England\u2019s rush defense, and Williams registered two sacks in an opening-round playoff win over the Los Angeles Chargers. He certainly feels differently about the Patriots now as they prepare for the Super Bowl on Feb. 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here now,\u201d Williams said. \u201cSo I love the Patriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots can re-establish themselves as a popular team to hate by igniting another dominant era&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,7891,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-719840","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-milton-williams","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115991545160206441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719840","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=719840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}