The Patriots last season when there’s 6 super bowl and continue a dynasty that has lasted now almost 20 years. Led still by the ageless wonder Tom Brady and coaching guru Bill Belichick, the Patriots for the last five years they’ve just been a plug and play team. But with all that, they’ve still had major success

A major component of their success is that they play in the AFC East. They play the New York Jets, the Miami Dolphins, and Buffalo bills twice each a year.

That’s an easy five to six wins just in their division. Since Bill Belichick has been a coach for the Patriots, they’re the only team to have an overall winning record. That’s crazy how easy for a schedule they have year in, and year out.

It’s almost not fair because they almost always have a first-round bye and home-field thru out the playoffs.

Also, this year is the first time that the defense is the reason the Pats are winning games. Most of the time it’s Tom Brady in the offense leading the way or both offense and defense are equally good.

But it’s never just the defense doing all the work every game.

Now the defense has shocked the NFL world through the first 8 games of the season. The Patriots are 8-0 and they have a monstrous +189 (250PF-61PA) point differential this season.

They have 19 interceptions to only one passing touchdown. They also have forced mine fumbles, recovering seven. The Patriots defense has now produced an incredible 25 turnovers this season, which leads the NFL by a wide margin.

But the craziest stat is they have the same amount of defensive TD’s, then total touchdowns given up against this year.

The New England Patriots’ “Boogeymen” defense left Sam Darnold seeing ghosts last week, and they haunted the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. New England forced the Browns into three consecutive turnovers during a 27-13 win over Cleveland Sunday

“Yeah, we’ve played a lot of players. We rotate a lot,” New England coach Bill Belichick told reporters recently. “We’ve played 20 players on defense the last four or five weeks. So naturally, you start splitting it up between 20 guys, that’s what you’re going to get.

“Show me how many teams in the league play 20 players on defense – not too many.”

The Patriots lead the league in nearly every major defensive category, and they’re doing it with a variety of players making plays. Nine different players have registered at least one interception. Six different players have forced at least one fumble and five have recovered at least one fumble. Nine different players have at least one sack.