The underlined subject of this sentence is

The underlined subject of this sentence is an adverbial phrase

a noun phrase

A noun phrase is a group of words in a sentence that acts like a noun.

The underlined subject of this sentence is answering the question "What?" Such questions are answered by nouns. Therefore, the underlined phrase is a noun phrase.

Another useful hint: subjects are normally expressed by nouns.

Hope this helps.

the patriots are

that is based on your opinion not an answer someone can just give you unless you want to lie on your opinion. no offense wasn't trying to be rude. tip: use words like instead of don't put do not and you get what i mean