{"id":989361,"date":"2026-09-01T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/989361\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:03:15","slug":"afc-east-led-by-patriots-and-bills-eyeing-super-bowl-run-jets-and-dolphins-seek-respectability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/989361\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC East led by Patriots and Bills eyeing Super Bowl run. Jets and Dolphins seek respectability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OCIG7Q4RVNHMBJKWNIQNWP7QZI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It\u2019s like old times again for the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> , who are being pursued by everyone else in the AFC East.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WTLU2VQAENBOJK3KFMDW5NUMLY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It\u2019s a position the franchise knows all too well, having a nearly two-decade reign \u2014 17 division titles in 19 years \u2014 before Josh Allen and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Buffalo Bills<\/a> won five in a row. A playoff run all the way to the Super Bowl last season behind second-year quarterback Drake Maye has raised expectations for the Patriots and provided the Bills, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-york-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> a clear target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s like old times again for the New England Patriots , who are being pursued by everyone else&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[104526,129891,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,111730,498,40927,42950,835,110248,8865,208,9],"class_list":["post-989361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-2026-nfl-schedule","tag-fbn-afc-east-preview","tag-football","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-2026-news","tag-nfl-football","tag-nfl-highlights","tag-nfl-latest-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-nfl-schedule-2026","tag-nfl-scores","tag-patriots","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117197812728258832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989361","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=989361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}