Super Bowl?! Notable Ex-Patriot Has Aggressive Take About New England

Think you’re high on the New England Patriots? Just wait until you read what Damien Harris recently said about his former team.

The Patriots will enter Sunday’s road game against the Tennessee Titans with a 4-2 record and in sole possession of first place in the AFC East. And with perhaps the NFL’s easiest remaining schedule, New England has a realistic shot at making the playoffs for the first time since 2021 — especially if Drake Maye continues playing at his current level.

But forget the playoffs. Harris is thinking Super Bowl.

“They absolutely can make it to the AFC Championship,” Harris, who played for New England from 2019 through 2022 and retired in 2024, recently told RG’s DJ Siddiqi. “The big bad Kansas City Chiefs are not big and bad anymore. The Ravens, they’re in a world of hurt. Losing Lamar (Jackson) on top of where their defense is — that helps.

“You just beat Buffalo in primetime in Buffalo. There’s no reason that the Patriots shouldn’t be confident in winning the AFC and getting to the Super Bowl.”

Harris then took things a step further.

“I’ll tell you this my honest to God’s truth opinion, the Patriots — all they’ve got to do is find a way to get Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson going in the run game,” he said. “If they do, combined with Drake Maye, Stefon Diggs, Kayshon Boutte, DeMario Douglas, I’d pencil them in as my Super Bowl pick.”

Harris believes Patriots players and coaches should feel as confidence as he does about their chances.

“There’s no reason that Mike Vrabel shouldn’t have that confidence,” he told Siddiqi. “There’s no reason Drake Maye, you can’t tell me Stefon Diggs doesn’t have that confidence, because I’m sure he does.

“That’s when the magic starts to happen, when you have a coach that believes, but then you start to see the players start to believe at the same level, if not more than the coach. That’s when teams get dangerous. That’s where this New England Patriots team is.”

New England will look to continue its AFC ascension this Sunday when it visits the Tennessee Titans.