Banged-up Brady glad week’s over _ and with win for Patriots

Nonprofit welcomed into community by Jets alumni, elected officials. It’s hard to believe Brady & Co. got that many first downs, considering the Jets defense did a great job of limiting them to 4-for-14 on third down situations (1-for-1 on fourth downs).

The Patriots are seasoned enough to know that the ugliness of a victory is irrelevant, but this game will give them plenty to ruminate over beyond the report from the trainer’s room.

“He’s still very competitive out there”, Brady told WEEI. But you know if the Patriots need him in the fourth quarter to deliver the dagger, more often than not they’ll get it from No. 12.

Tom Brady tied Peyton Manning for the most wins by a quarterback in National Football League history, getting his 200th by throwing a go-ahead 8-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Mitchell with 1:56 left to lead the New England Patriots to a 22-17 victory over the New York Jets on Sunday. They are ripping through the AFC East again. They’ll likely be eliminated from playoff contention altogether within the next two weeks. After an incompletion to Mitchell in the end zone, Gostkowski’s 39-yard attempt was wide left, leaving the game tied at halftime. “It’s no different than anybody else on both sides of the ball right now”. Originally ruled an incomplete pass, Bowles challenged for the 2nd time in the game and the play was reversed to a touchdown, as Enunwa’s butt was in before his elbow went out of bounds.

But moments later, MetLife Stadium erupted with noise. Third among all active players in nine seasons when it comes to the takeaway, he never reached his Island and let the Patriots get to the end zone. Meanwhile, Ryan Fitzpatrick and the sputtering Jets (3-7) are looking at a sixth consecutive season without a playoff appearance. The Patriots picked up their ninth win of the season and Brady picked up the 200 win of his career.

Brady threw an eight-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Mitchell with 1:56 remaining as the Patriots rallied from an early 10-point deficit to edge the Jets 22-17.

The Patriots can’t pressure the quarterback right now and they struggle to cover anyone downfield, which is a pretty bad combination. Enunwa had five catches for a career-high 109 yards and a touchdown. Kaepernick passed for three TDs, but the 49ers (1-10) haven’t won since the season opener. The Bills took the lead with 5:31 remaining in the first quarter, and held onto it for the remaining 54 minutes and 9 seconds of the game.

That’s why what unfolded Sunday was so critical for the 2016 Patriots, regardless of the quality of the opposition (the Jets, for their part, were a worthy foe).

Gronkowski is still nursing a perforated lung he suffered against Seattle, which cost him the game last week against San Francisco. “That’s good. I’m glad he’s our quarterback”. Manning threw a 32-yard TD pass to Beckham in the second quarter and added a 4-yarder to Beckham with 5:10 left to finally put away the Browns. This was Marshall’s first touchdown since Week Five.

Meanwhile, the defensive line harassed Brady.

Brady, who was listed as questionable due to a knee injury, surely knows of what Revis speaks. On the following drive for the Jets, Fitzpatrick found Robby Anderson for 25 yards, in which Anderson did some moves to get more yards. Or total yards. Or catches of more than 25 yards.

As Dan Hanzus of NFL.com pointed out in this article that was published while the game was still in progress, Jets defenders were presented with an opportunity that most fans would expect players to see as a dream come true. This was the sixth time in a row the matchup was decided by less than a touchdown and for a few minutes it looked as if it would be decided in a peculiar and ironic way.

Revis and the Jets defense could not stop it. He trails only Dan Marino, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees in all-time passing yards.