Lobel's Question of the Week: The Best Patriots Team Ever?

Every week, legendary sportscaster Bob Lobel wants to hear your opinion on something that caught his eye over the weekend.

The Patriots captured their sixth consecutive AFC East championship yesterday with a blowout of the Miami Dolphins.

Since the NFL realigned its divisions in 2001 (also the first year of the Brady-Belichick era), New England has won an absurd 12 out of 14 AFC East titles, only allowing the Jets to win the division in 2002, and the Dolphins to take it home in 2008 when Tom Brady was lost for the season due to injury.

While the Patriots have had many great teams (three Super Bowl champions, seven AFC champions), this year's New England squad may have the best combination of explosive offense and speedy, play-making defense.

Lobel's Question of the Week: The Best Patriot Not Named Brady

Every week, legendary sportscaster Bob Lobel wants to hear your opinion on something that caught his eye over the weekend.

While Tom Brady may have taken an unexpected back seat to break out running back Jonas Gray last night, it is pretty much beyond debate that he is the greatest New England Patriots player ever.

Still, the race for No. 2 is pretty interesting, and Bob wants to know what you think. Here are a few of Bob's favorites, but let us know yours by participating in the poll or leaving comments below. Or, if you want to get all social media-y, you can Tweet to Bob at @boblobel.

Bob's Favorites

Adam Vinatieri

Has anybody made more clutch kicks in his career? While you could argue against a kicker being No. 2 on the list, it's hard to debate Vinatieri's importance during New England's first Super Bowl run, as he hit the game winner in the snow against Oakland (the infamous "Tuck Rule" game) and in the Super Bowl to defeat the heavily favored Rams.

Oh yeah, and he kicked another Super Bowl game winner two years later against Carolina, and was instrumental in the Patriots' third Super Bowl run the following year. He would go on to win another title with Peyton Manning and the Colts, but we won't hold that against him here.