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Tom Brady is back for another season and the defending champion New England Patriots are a big favorite to extend their NFL record for consecutive division titles to 11. The Pats’ run of success under Brady and coach Bill Belichick is unprecedented in today’s NFL with salary caps and free agency. They head into the season as defending champions for the sixth time in Brady’s reign.

There will come a time when Brady and Belichick are no longer around and the other teams in the division will have a chance, but both are getting ready to rock for another season of dominance. A sign that they may be slowing down was last year’s win total. The Pats won 11 games, which was their fewest since winning 10 games in 2009.

There doesn’t appear to be much hope for the Miami Dolphins, New York Jets or Buffalo Bills, as they are each longshots to claim the AFC East in 2019. Believe it or not, the division wasn’t always this way. For a younger generation of NFL fans, Brady, division titles and Super Bowls are all they know about the Pats. But long before they became the model franchise in the league, the Pats were a doormat, watching the Miami Dolphins capture 10 of the first 15 division crowns after the merger.

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New England Patriots -480

New York Jets +545

Buffalo Bills +1050

Miami Dolphins +6500

NFL AFC East

As long as Belichick is the coach and Brady the quarterback, the Patriots will be solid. In 2018 they rolled to their 15th division crown in the last 16 seasons going 11-5. The Pats have posted 10 or more wins in a staggering 16 straight seasons while dominating inside the division. During their run of 10 straight division crowns, the Pats are 47-13 against their AFC East brethren The Pats have been a model of consistency and it doesn’t look like they’re slowing down, that’s why they are the huge favorite at -480 to capture another division title.

The other three teams are in various stages of rebuilding, though the Jets made strides to push for a playoff berth in 2019. Last year’s top pick Sam Darnold looks like the real deal and now he has Le’Veon Bell behind him. That should at least make the Jets a scary team offensively. The Bills surprised a lot of folks last season and the continued development of Josh Allen should make them more competitive.

We have two teams with new coaches for the 2019 campaign, though both stayed within the division. The Jets got their man in Adam Gase, who comes over after three middling seasons with Miami. Gase took the Fins to the playoffs in his first season compiling a 23-25 record and he split the season series with New England the last two years. Meanwhile, Miami went straight to the source to replace Gase, hiring the Pats’ Brian Flores to direct the rebuild.

American Football Conference Teams

List of AFC East Winners

The last two undefeated regular seasons, and the only ones that consisted of more than 13 games, were both accomplished by teams from the AFC East. The difference was that the 1972 Dolphins completed their perfect season while the 2007 Patriots fell a game short. That Dolphins team is the only one in league history to complete a season without a loss or a tie. The Pats were trying to match that, but dropped the Super Bowl game that season to the New York Giants.

Buffalo, Miami, Boston (now New England) and the Jets were part of the AFL’s Eastern Division prior to the merger. Those four, along with the Baltimore Colts, made up the new AFC East after the league’s merged for the 1970 season. The division housed the same franchises through 2001, though the Colts moved to Indianapolis in 1984. Realignment reduced the division to four teams with the Colts being moved to the newly-created AFC South.

Since Brady took over as the full-time starter in 2001, the Patriots have won 16 of 18 division titles and have appeared in nine Super Bowls, winning six of them. It’s a stretch unmatched in the league. The Bills won five of their seven AFC East titles in a six-year stretch between 1988 and 1993. They made four consecutive trips to the Super Bowl, the only team to do that, and lost all four, another first. Buffalo hasn’t won a division title since 1995, the longest drought of any AFC East team. Even the Jets, who have just two division crowns, got their last in 2002.

Most AFC East Division Titles

The NFL’s American Football Conference started with the merger of the AFL and the existing teams were part of it. Over the years through realignment and relocation, the divisions have changed, but the East has kept its feel of an old AFL division with all four teams having roots to the league. Three of them – Patriots, Jets and Bills – were original members of the AFL from back in 1960, so there is a rich history between these clubs that extends beyond the scope of the NFL.

The Pats won a single division title during their decade-long stay in the AFL and didn’t capture their initial NFL division crown until 1978. They won a total of four division titles before Brady joined the club.

In 2016, the Pats established an NFL record with their eighth consecutive division crown and added two more. Eighteen of New England’s record 20 crowns have come since 1996. The Jets won the last two AFL Eastern Division titles before the merger and pulled off a major upset in Super Bowl III. After joining the NFL, the Jets have had their problems. They’ve won just two divisions since 1970.

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