The New England Patriots traveled to Arizona to take on the Cardinals in Week 15. The 3-10 Pats don’t have much to gain down the stretch. The only priority is continuing the development of rookie quarterback Drake Maye, the third pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, who has proven he is the future of the franchise.

The first two quarters of Sunday’s game proved to be very poor in this regard. New England couldn’t get anything going offensively and was outscored 204-90 by the Cardinals in the first 30 minutes of the contest. At one point, CBS cameras flashed to where Patriots owner Robert Kraft was watching the game with his son Jonathan, and both men appeared very unhappy with the team’s performance.

The Patriots had zero points with three minutes left in the second quarter and had just lost five yards on a running play when the Krafts were shown on the screen. Jonathan, the team president, made his obvious frustration particularly clear when he gestured toward the field while speaking to his billionaire father.

Never a good sign.

It was a very bad year for New England, even though there were widespread expectations going into the season that it would be a very bad year indeed. That shows how bad it was. Maye’s talent is the light at the end of the tunnel, but every other part of the campaign has been an abject disaster.

And it’s far from over. The Krafts will see a lot more ugly football before it’s all said and done.