Don’t get Ariel Helwani started on the New England Patriots.

“I hate the jersey, I hate the logo, I hate everything it represents,” said Helwani, a sports commentator well known for his coverage of combat sports , and a diehard fan of the Buffalo Bills, the Patriots’ divisional rival.

“I hate the history,” he said. “I hate the pain that they’ve caused us.”

What Helwani loved in recent years, then, were signs that the Patriots’ two-decade run as the NFL’s ultimate dynasty — including six Super Bowl titles under coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady, and known for controversial calls and league penalties for rules violations — seemed kaput.

Brady left in 2020. The Patriots haven’t been in the playoffs since Jan. 15, 2022, when the Bills — which had lost 15 consecutive time

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