With an .800 average for the year to date, Ernie tends to let you know who will win the games before they're even played. Here's who he's got this weekend...
The next six weeks will either see the Patriots right the ship and get back into contention in the AFC, or the team will be forced to make some very tough decisions.
Most coaches around the league don't survive the first couple losing seasons, let alone ones that have been plagued with the issues we've seen from the Pats in recent years.
New England is 3-8 in their last 11 games. They're 9-12 since the start of last season and 10-16 since that wind game in Buffalo during the '21 season. They've scored more than three offensive TD's just four times in their last 37 games and have trailed by at least six points in each of their last 10 contests.
While the dust has yet to fully settle on this deal, Vegas has already bumped the Bucks not only past Boston in the East, but ahead of the defending champion Nuggets as the overall title favorite entering the '23-'24 season.
For the last three years, New England has made habit of beating the teams below them in the standings while losing to virtually every team above them. Will that change Sunday?