Brady ties Manning with 200th win, Patriots beat Jets 22-17

New England’s defense clamped down on a stagnant New York Jets offense, and Brady found Malcolm Mitchell for a game-winning touchdown, as the Patriots squeezed out a 22-17 win Sunday. There are plays that you need for your team to win, and Tom does a great job of that. He’s spent his entire career playing for coach Bill Belichick, winning four titles, and will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. “This is the latest loss but they all hurt the same”.

Here are 10 observations on key points as the game unfolded. Seven plays later, Brady fired a four-yard touchdown pass to Mitchell. On came Nick Folk for an early 51-yard field goal and Nick hit it long and true for the 3-0 lead.

And the Seahawks loss to Tampa contrasted with its win over the Patriots show that it’s a matchup league, any given Sunday and all that.

Brandon Marshall’s first touchdown catch since October 9 against Pittsburgh gave NY a 10-0 lead 4 seconds into the second quarter.

But the Pats recovered, first with Stephen Gostkowski’s 28-yard field goal that cut the deficit to 10-3, and then when Butler forced and recovered Robby Anderson’s fumble on the ensuing drive. Ryan Fitzpatrick will be back under center for NY after missing its last game – a 9-6 loss to Los Angeles – due to a knee injury. I felt pretty miserable. “Things happen down there fast in the red zone”. Of the Patriots’ 22 wins over the Jets with Brady behind center, 11 were by eight points or fewer, including six of the past 10 dating back to 2012. It was the defense’s seventh straight RZ series without yielding a TD since midway through the Miami game. Tom Brady, whose accuracy was not always pinpoint against an old, familiar rival on this Sunday, spiraled a nice pass that left Mitchell extended. But at the same time, quarterbacks know when it’s a blitz down there, they kind of tend to back up and try to lob it. But Osweiler’s first shot at the end zone was knocked down, and the second one was intercepted as time expired. Bennett was bothered by a right ankle injury on Sunday, but had to tough it out with Rob Gronkowski (back) sidelined.

Gronkowski had no catches when he left, with Brady unable to connect with him on two third-down throws.

A 10-win team a year ago, the Jets are sitting at 3-8 and have lost three straight games by one score.

The first play of this fourth quarter was a Brady overthrow for Chris Hogan with Revis in coverage.

The Jets got the ball back after the Patriots’ two-point conversion was overturned and ran just two plays before Ryan Fitzpatrick was hit by former No. 2 overall pick Chris Long and fumbled the football.

Manning threw two touchdown passes to wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and one to wide receiver Dwayne Harris.

The score capped off an eight-play drive for the Jets that started on their own 27-yard line.

On Mitchell’s game-winning touchdown catch, Revis lined up five yards off the line of scrimmage.

Ultimately what was disheartening about this game was that the Patriots are famous for taking away your best option and forcing you to beat them with your secondary and tertiary options.

Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 23-yard field goal with 1:45 left to play, lifting Oakland to victory and dealing what could be the final blow to Carolina’s playoff hopes. He paid $635 million to buy the team in 2000 and Forbes recently listed the Jets as the seventh most valuable National Football League franchise at $2.75 billion.

He did. And on a double-out route with Julian Edelman, Mitchell got free of Darrelle Revis – man, is he a shell of what he once was – to pull in an 8-yard touchdown pass from Brady.