Skip Bayless might have one of the worst takes ever about Patriots' playoff run

The anti-New England Patriots element in the national media can't help but try to belittle everything the Patriots and their best in the NFL, Coach Mike Vrabel, and MVP candidate Drake Maye have achieved. Now it's Skip Bayless, notorious anti-Patriot, who's waxing unpoetic about the Patriots and their "Easiest" path to a Super Bowl.

Bayless' shallow take is nothing new. For months, once the Patriots became a sustained winner, the national anti-Patriot faction has ramped up and belittled anything and everything the team has done despite its now 16-3 overall 2025 record.

Even a trip to the AFC Championship game hasn't put a stop to this senseless blather.

Now, Bayless is stepping up to discredit the Patriots' so-called "easiest" path to the Super Bowl. No matter who the Patriots beat where, whether it be in the regular season or now in two playoff games, it will never be enough.

NFL fans or commentators who were jealous of the Patriots' first dynasty are now petrified that a second is about to begin. In fact, it already has. The Patriots are in their first AFC Championship game in eight years.

National media disrespect only adds fuel to the Patriots' fire

Shallow national so-called pundits will always take every stat they can and twist it against the New England Patriots.

Two decades of absolute domination of the NFL by Tom Brady and company will do that. Now Bayless is chiming in.

Patriot bashers began their barrage with the team's so-called soft schedule when they started their win streak and carried it to 10 games. The baloney continues even now into the playoffs, no matter that the Patriots have now beaten two playoff teams, the Chargers and the Texans.

And the injury to Bo Nix now has them even stepping ahead of themselves and the Broncos' game to try to submarine in advance what may be a Patriots' trip to the Super Bowl if they prevail over Denver.

Patriots media analyst tells it like it really is

Fortunately, one astute Patriots' analyst has looked at the other side of the story and pointed out facts, rather than the clickbait foolishness of commentators like Bayless.

Evan Lazar is one of the best Patriots' analysts around. He's heavy on the stats, but his have gravitas.

Lazar points out that should the Patriots beat the Nix-less Broncos, they will have traversed a "gauntlet" of several of the NFLs' best defenses to get there. These include the Chargers and Texans, who've already been dispatched, and the upcoming Denver Broncos defense, which is ranked eighth. These facts totally contradict Bayliss's tripe.

Blowhards like Bayless are setting up their viewers or readers for a distinct possibility: that the Patriots may be on their way to emulating what the 2001 team unexpectedly did, win the Lombardi Trophy, the team's seventh. And how sweet that would be for Patriot Nation.

One thing is positive for the anti-Patriots set: it's better to be prepared for the worst, since it's a distinct possibility that Vrabel and Maye just may add that seventh Lombardi Trophy to the already overflowing big trophy cabinet at Gillette Stadium.

National commentators are preparing themselves for another possible Patriots' Super Bowl appearance and win.

Trying to belittle the Patriots' accomplishments is one way they're preparing for the very distressing possibility that the Patriots are on their way to their second dynasty, and that it may begin this season. They should get used to it: Vrabel and Maye have just gotten started, and no matter what ultimately happens this season, the future is going to be a Patriots' one.