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Here’s a list of 2025 Patriots predictions from beat writers and national analysts
Experts foresee an improvement, but maybe not quite enough for a playoff spot.
Some Patriots predictions: The 2025 NFL season has arrived, with the first game (Cowboys at Eagles) set to kick off on Thursday evening at 8:20 p.m.
The Patriots get underway on Sunday against the Raiders (1 p.m.) at Gillette Stadium. With a new head coach and a large amount of roster turnover, it will be a new beginning for New England.
Trying to assess how things might go for the Patriots this season is tricky, with back-to-back 4-13 seasons still looming in recent history, but with a sense of optimism permeating the current roster.
Here’s a quick rundown of record predictions from Patriots beat writers as well as national analysts:
Boston Globe
- Chad Finn: 9-8
- Christopher L. Gasper: 8-9
- Christopher Price: 7-10
- Dan Shaughnessy: 7-10
- Tara Sullivan: 8-9
- Ben Volin: 8-9
- Nicole Yang: 8-9
Boston Herald
Andrew Callahan: 9-8
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Doug Kyed: While Kyed didn’t provide a specific record prediction (which fits within the context of the Herald’s preview), he did not pick New England as a playoff team: “It would be fun to see the Patriots make a playoff push in 2025, but it seems one year too soon. The Patriots made major upgrades, but they still seem a year away from truly contending.”
MassLive
- Mark Daniels: 8-9
- Karen Guregian: 9-8
- Matt Vautour: 8-9
- Chris Mason: 8-9
- Lauren Campbell: 8-9
- Jim Pignatiello: 9-8
NBC Sports Boston
- Tom E. Curran: 8-9
- Phil Perry: 9-8
NFL.com
Cynthia Frelund: Using historical data, interviews with experts, and “simulations [that] included 1,000,000 runs of every single regular-season game,” Frelund (an NFL Network analytics expert) predicted the fractional win totals of each team. For the Patriots, she reached the final verdict of 8.8 wins.
ESPN
Like NFL.com, ESPN released its analytics-based predictions for each NFL team:
- Chances to make the playoffs: 30.5%
- Chances to win division: 13.1%
- Projected wins: 7.9
Trivia: Over the last 50 years, the greatest single season win increase that the Patriots experienced was eight from 1975 through 1976. After going 3-11, Chuck Fairbanks’s team responded with a successfully inverted 11-3 campaign the following season. What player led the ’76 Patriots in interceptions?
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(Answer at the bottom).
Hint: A rookie first-round pick that season, he went on to make nine Pro Bowls and eventually be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Scores and schedules:
The Red Sox lost 8-1 to the Guardians on Wednesday.
Tomorrow, Boston begins a three-game series in Arizona at the Diamondbacks. First pitch is set for 9:40 p.m.
More from Boston.com:
- Guardians score 6 runs in 2nd inning and beat sloppy Red Sox 8-1
- Stefon Diggs addressed report of him being a ‘pain in the posterior’ for Patriots
- Christian Gonzalez headlines Patriots’ first injury report of the season
- Wednesday’s loss a reminder of daunting road for Red Sox without Roman Anthony
- Roman Anthony injury: Alex Cora says star likely out 4-6 weeks with oblique strain
- Nikita Zadorov on Bruins’ doubters: ‘We’re reading what you guys are writing’
- Julian Edelman reveals his favorite game that he ever played with Patriots
- Robert Kraft says he wants to build Bill Belichick statue next to Tom Brady’s at Gillette Stadium
Trophy talk: Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski made some picks of their own ahead of the 2025 NFL season in an extremely scientific and orderly way.
On this day: In 1999, the Red Sox defeated the Mariners 4-0 behind Pedro Martinez’s eight brilliant innings, resulting in 15 strikeouts. Martinez notched his 20th win of what would be a Cy Young Award-winning season. A home run from Nomar Garciaparra, and RBIs from Jason Varitek, Trot Nixon, and Jose Offerman provided all the run support Martinez would need.
Daily highlight: Masashi Wada skipped past his defender to score a nice goal in Portland Hearts of Pine’s 3-2 win on Wednesday.
Trivia answer: Mike Haynes
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