Sunday’s slate of NFL football has quite the matchup on its hands in the 1 p.m. ET window, with the 7–2 Patriots heading south to Tampa to take on the 6–2 Buccaneers.
New England enters Week 10 as arguably the NFL’s most surprising team of 2025, having nearly matched their win total from the previous two seasons combined through nine games. Quarterback Drake Maye is a fringe-MVP candidate—which we’ll get to later—and coach Mike Vrabel has done an A1 job at flipping the culture in Foxborough. The Patriots currently sit atop the AFC East with the easiest strength of schedule remaining in the NFL.
