No team in the NFL is playing better than the New England Patriots right now.
They have won six consecutive games -- the longest active win streak in the league -- to catapult them from 2-4 to first place in the AFC East and the No. 2 seed in the conference with a 8-4 record.
Not only are the Patriots winning games, they're dominating opponents. New England has outscored teams by 148 points during its win streak, including a 36-13 victory over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.
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Long win streaks are nothing new for the Patriots under head coach Bill Belichick, but when you put this run alongside all of the other years in which a similar win streak has occurred, it's pretty astounding.
The Patriots have had a six-game win streak or better in 14 seasons since Belichick took over in 2000.
Impressive.
All six of the Patriots' Super Bowl-winning seasons (2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018) have included a win streak of six or more games.
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The last Patriots win streak of six-plus games came at the start of the 2019 campaign when they won their first eight matchups. Despite that hot start, New England ended with a 12-4 record and lost in the AFC Wild Card Round to the Titans in Tom Brady's last game with the franchise.
This year's streak seems like a better representation of the team's actual potential. The Patriots needed time to incorporate a bunch of new players on both sides of the ball, including a rookie quarterback in Mac Jones. Now that everyone has settled in and roles are more defined, the Patriots have unsurprisingly improved quite a bit in many areas.
There's no more debate. The Patriots are a legit threat to win the AFC.