Patriots fans opened the season furious and hit numb despair after the Jacksonville rout, with Drake Maye at the center of every argument. The Buffalo comeback flipped the mood, and at 5-3 a battered fanbase now eyes the AFC top seed despite a mounting injury list.
From Reddit fan threads · through Week 8 · 5-3
Season misery
58
Worst week
100
Week 3
Best week
12
Week 4
Bars above the line are miserable weeks; below are happy ones.
Storylines
what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long
Fans went from calling Week 3 Maye's worst game ever to hailing his clutch Buffalo comeback, a near-perfect Week 5, and by Week 8 some put him in the MVP conversation.
“Add another fourth quarter comeback game-winning drive to Drake’s résumé oh by the way that was no AJ Brown no Christian Baramore no Christian Gonzalez”
