Pats Pulpit
Our offseason countdown continues with the No. 6 Best Patriots Moment of 2024.
Welcome to another slow period on the NFL Calendar, which means this is a good time to knock off another one of The Top 10 New England Patriots Moments of 2024.
And in case you’re wondering... yes. This is an absolute slog.
But I’ve been doing this countdown of the Top Patriots Moments since 2013, and I don’t know if I have it in me to hang it up. I’m also, for better or worse, a completist. Starting something and not finishing it doesn’t sit well with me for some absurd reason, so abandoning this countdown now would have me twitching all season long. If you have zero desire to relive this past season in any capacity and can’t for the life of you figure out why anyone would want to recap these brief glimpses of sunshine amid a whole lot of storm clouds, I certainly don’t blame you. Enjoy the rest of the great Pats Pulpit content, and I’ll see you in August when I pick the Fan Notes back up.
But for those of you who want to ride it out with me until the bitter end, let’s do this.
The list so far:
10. Jerod Mayo out, Mike Vrabel in.
9. Drake Maye hits Austin Hooper for a 38-yard TD on 4th-and-15 against the Miami Dolphins.
8. Joey Slye nails a 63-yard field goal to close out the half against the San Francisco 49ers.
7. A free play gets DeMario Douglas into the end zone vs. the Los Angeles Chargers.
At Number 6, we have a nice change of pace from this countdown: a Patriots win.
The Chicago Bears seem to be one of those teams that is perpetually about to turn a corner and become a playoff contender, but they always find a way to keep driving straight ahead instead of making said turn and end up in a sewer ditch. The 2024 Bears, courtesy of last year’s trade with the Carolina Panthers, were able to draft Caleb Williams with the 1st overall pick, hoping the rookie could improve on their 2023 record of 7-10 and become the QB that finally got them back to relevance. There might not have been Super Bowl aspirations in the Chicago area, but Bears fans were fairly excited overall for what the 2024 season promised.
The Bears ended up finishing 5-12 on the year, good enough for last place in the NFC North. And one of those losses came at the hands of the New England Patriots.
The 2-7 Patriots marched into Soldier Field on November 10th, 2024 and beat the brakes off of the Bears to the tune of 19-3, a score that isn’t at all indicative of how the game played out. The New England defense, for the first time in a very, very long time, played the way we all thought...
