New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady bounces ball before throwing touchdown

How many times does this ring true. “We have a lot of good players”.

Nobody follows the script around the super-secretive New England Patriots better than their best player, quarterback Tom Brady. Sure, it was an AFC East division game between the New England Patriots and Gang Green but if anyone truly expected to see the Jets win, knew it wasn’t likely to happen. “I knew all along”, said Bowles, who was publicly noncommittal Sunday night after a 22-17 loss to the New England Patriots. Brady then zipped a pass to Mitchell to put the Patriots ahead.

Despite heavy pressure from the Jets defensive line early in the game, Tom Brady threw two passes to Gronk that, on a different day, could’ve easily ended in touchdowns. While Akeem Hunt has pulled off some electric plays, Jonathan Grimes may also factor into the backfield mix if Miller can not go. That after Brady to Mitchell, end Chris Long stripped the ball from Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick so that teammate Trey Flowers could recover it at the Jets’ 34-yard line with 1:43 left.

“It’s a team sport”, the Patriots quarterback said. While it was only the second multi-touchdown game of the season for Fitzpatrick – and the first in which he did not throw an interception – Bowles said he would take his time to decide on a starter for next Monday night, when NY hosts the Indianapolis Colts.

There are still five more games to go before all of that, though.

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

He has been beaten week after week, often yielding too much cushion to receivers.

Brady is still the straw that stirs the drink. That’s what a quarterback’s job is, to win.

Score 200 wins for Brady.

The Jets took an early 3-0 lead when Nick Folk capped their first drive with a 51-yard field goal 4:31 into the first.

Tom Brady didn’t quite look himself in a tight win over the Jets on Sunday. “He’s given up more plays this year than in the past, but you’ve gotta have a lot of respect for his style and his game”. Revis appeared to hesitate when Brady fumbled the snap. It was fourth and four at the Jet 37. Kicker Stephen Gostkowski missed a 39-yard field goal attempt, although he made three others.

Belichick chose go, with Gostkowski looking on with a pained look on his face. Instead, Brady threw a swing pass to James White to the right sideline just at the first-down stake. The Jets blew the coverage on the next play, and Hogan was wide open in the right seam for 25 yards.

Cleveland has lost 15 in a row since last season. Brady found rapidly improving rookie receiver Malcolm Mitchell, who had a step on Revis, at the pylon on the left near corner of the end zone for a five-point lead. In practice I would make plays but I couldn’t put it all together.

It didn’t seal the game, but it practically did. But the final two series were a disaster for the Harvard man.

Brady won his 200th National Football League game. With the Rams coming to Foxborough next week, Brady will be favored to move past Manning. He followed that with a 16-yard pass to Dion Lewis to the Jets’ 43, but the drive nearly went sour with two incompletions and a short pass to Edelman that left the Patriots facing fourth-and-4 at the 37. The Patriots could not induce Fitzpatrick into any interceptions, and he never looked flustered.

It seems like this would be an ideal juncture, with the Colts and 49ers next, for the Jets to give Petty an audition.

Patriots CB Malcolm Butler on facing the Jets. Things got even worse when Gronkowski was taken to the locker room to be evaluated for a back injury with two and a half minutes remaining in the opening quarter. Always a good thing.