Even after Patriots finished the game in week 17, the good news kept coming.
New England put on a very impressive performance on Sunday, defeating the New York Jets 42-10, featuring a record-breaking performance from second-year starting quarterback Drake Maye. That alone was enough to make it a good Sunday for the Patriots – but things got even better when Accounts Later that day he took the field against the Eagles.
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The Bills will compete at home against the Bills. Philadelphia Eaglesand by the end of the night, the NFC East champions had beaten Buffalo 13-12. And that loss, combined with a Patriots win earlier in the day, helped the Patriots win the 2025 AFC East championship just a week after they made a playoff bid.
The division championship will be the Patriots' first since the 2019 season and the Patriots' 22nd AFC East title since joining the NFL in 1970. Their first appearance in the playoffs this season will be since 2021.
The Patriots will now take on a Week 18 matchup with Dolphinswhere they will compete for the opportunity to finish first in the AFC heading into the playoffs. At the moment, the tiebreaker separates first place in the conference, the victory of the Patriots and Broncos A loss to a playoff-bound Chargers team to end the regular season would have secured New England the No. 1 seed.
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This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: The Patriots won their first East title in six seasons.
