The New England Patriots are back. Don't get their haters started.

Behind coach Mike Vrabel and young star quarterback, Drake Maye, the New England Patriots are a Super Bowl contender for the first time since Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Not everyone is happy about it.

Don’t get Ariel Helwani started on the New England Patriots.

“I hate the jersey, I hate the logo, I hate everything it represents,” said Helwani, a sports commentator well known for his coverage of combat sports, and a diehard fan of the Buffalo Bills, the Patriots’ divisional rival.

“I hate the history,” he said. “I hate the pain that they’ve caused us.”

What Helwani loved in recent years, then, were signs that the Patriots’ two-decade run as the NFL’s ultimate dynasty — including six Super Bowl titles under coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady, and known for controversial calls and league penalties for rules violations — seemed kaput.

Brady left in 2020. The Patriots haven’t been in the playoffs since Jan. 15, 2022, when the Bills — who had lost 15 consecutive times to Belichick’s Patriots over one eight-year stretch — routed New England by 30, a victory Helwani described cathartically as “one of the happiest nights in my life.”