{"id":930872,"date":"2026-10-17T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930872\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:54:10","slug":"2-time-super-bowl-champ-says-patriots-are-nfls-best-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930872\/","title":{"rendered":"2-Time Super Bowl Champ Says Patriots Are NFL&#8217;s Best Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Super Bowl champion Phil Simms believes the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> have established themselves as the NFL&#8217;s best team.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on &#8220;Up &amp; Adams&#8221; with Kay Adams, the former New York Giants quarterback praised New England&#8217;s roster and pointed to Drake Maye&#8217;s recent performance as a reason for his confidence in the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Phil Simms says the New England Patriots are the BEST TEAM IN THE NFL \ud83d\ude2e @PhilSimmsQB | @heykayadams | @Patriots https:\/\/t.co\/DIYNyGJR9M<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Up &amp; Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UpAndAdamsShow\/status\/2111166717393039592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do also think New England&#8217;s the best team in the NFL,&#8221; Simms said.<\/p>\n<p>When Adams challenged him to explain why the Patriots were better than the San Francisco 49ers, Simms pointed to Maye&#8217;s development as a passer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He kind of had a little hitch in his throwing motion, which was causing him to throw it where he doesn&#8217;t want the ball. And he fixed it in one week,&#8221; Simms said. &#8220;He threw the ball awesome last week for the whole game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simms compared Maye&#8217;s potential to that of 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he keeps playing like that, then he&#8217;s like Brock Purdy,&#8221; Simms said. &#8220;Then, you know, he&#8217;s just going to be a guy that can lead his team to the Super Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More Patriots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Super Bowl champion Phil Simms believes the New England Patriots have established themselves as the NFL&#8217;s best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-930872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}