{"id":105805,"date":"2026-01-05T02:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:59:23","slug":"pats-clinch-afcs-no-2-seed-with-38-10-rout-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105805\/","title":{"rendered":"Pats clinch AFC\u2019s No. 2 seed with 38-10 rout \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowTom E. Curran and Phil Perry will share more reaction <a href=\"http:\/\/swap.fm\/l\/patriotstalk\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/swap.fm\/l\/patriotstalk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a postgame edition of the Patriots Talk Podcast<\/a>.The Patriots (14-3) are the AFC&#8217;s No. 2 seed after beating the Dolphins (7-10).Rhamondre Stevenson racked up 131 rushing yards on seven carries while scoring three TDs (two rushing, one receiving).Drake Maye completed 14 of 18 passes for 191 yards and a TD while adding 41 rushing yards.<\/p>\n<p>The New England Patriots capped off a historic regular season in style Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vrabel\u2019s club surged to a 38-10 rout of the Dolphins in their regular-season finale at Gillette Stadium, outscoring Miami 24-0 in the second half to finish with a 14-3 record and the No. 2 seed in the AFC.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/chargers-preview-prediction-drake-maye-justin-herbert\/757884\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/chargers-preview-prediction-drake-maye-justin-herbert\/757884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">will host the No. 7 seed Chargers in the AFC Wild Card Round<\/a> next weekend after Los Angeles fell to the No. 1 seed Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>New England\u2019s rushing attack was the story of the day, as Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson combined for 184 yards on 19 carries with four total TDs.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our recap below for highlights, analysis and postgame reaction from Patriots-Dolphins, as well as what comes next for New England in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowTom E. Curran and Phil Perry will share more reaction a postgame edition of the Patriots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10840,123,1763,125,124,22133,10830,54529,53858,28211,54530],"class_list":["post-105805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-drake-maye","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-rhamondre-stevenson","tag-stefon-diggs","tag-treveyon-henderson","tag-will-campbell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}