Patriots Play very bad, Still Hang 30 On Best Defense

He only saw the football. And on the next play he picked up seven more yards, his sure hands helping drain 40 seconds off the clock before Rob Gronkowski effectively iced the win with a 15-yard touchdown catch. That could lead to a few huge success for him this season.

If you closed your eyes, that answer was an exercise in “Belispeak” in the way it mimicked the Patriots’ coach.

“I was in pass protection a lot”, Gronk said.

“I was just focusing in and trying to do my job”, he said.

McCown left favoring his right arm with just under 4 minutes remaining.

You’ve heard it a million times, and you’ll hear it a million more times.

NOTES: Patriots K Stephen Gostkowski, who made all three of his field goal attempts, has made 24 in a row and is one short of Adam Vinatieri’s franchise record for consecutive FGs. Chung, who was assigned to return a kick for the first time this season, muffed that kick in the end zone and the ball almost bounced beyond the goal line before he recovered it for a touchback. At one point, Miami led Houston 41-0 in the first half.

“That’s why one day that guy will be in Canton, man”, said Jets LB Calvin Pace. I worked hard this offseason on them. We can’t be having so many three-and-outs. Running back Arian Foster is believed to have torn his Achilles in the fourth quarter of the blowout loss, according to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport. Tom was on point.

The Patriots are ideal – quite literally. But this was anything but a ideal performance.

After missing the first six weeks with an injury, Brandon LaFell’s season debut didn’t personally go as well as he would’ve liked.

In other games, Teddy Bridgewater threw for a season-high 316 yards and two touchdowns in the Minnesota Vikings’ 28-19 win over the Detroit Lions, the Atlanta Falcons defeated the Tennessee Titans 10-7 and the Jacksonville Jaguars came back to down the Buffalo Bills 34-31.

“If I had to give myself a grade, it would be “F”, he told ESPN.com afterward.

With the Patriots so pass heavy in this game, there was rarely an illusion of the run. It was essentially nonexistent. Oh, they also had two rookies on the offensive line plus a right tackle making his first career start at the position. He found that little string – the thread that was keeping the New York Jets defense together – and he pulled it. Three plays that didn’t go exactly as planned, but unspooled the opposition anyway. The moments that separate good teams from great teams, seemed to all go in favor of the Patriots. He also led the team in rushing with four carries for 15 yards and a touchdown. Yes, Gang Green you are good enough to make the playoffs.

But these are the Patriots, and they were able to rally when they most needed to.

Brady overcame the Revis Effect by looking to Amendola, who finished with eight catches for 86 yards, with five of those catches coming in the fourth quarter.

Brady had over 300 passing yards for the 68th time in his career. He got it done when he was wide open, but more importantly, with players dangling from his legs. “You’ve got to remain level-headed”.

Danny Amendola. I feel like that’s all I really need to write.

The Patriots topped the Jets on Sunday, and it was largely thanks to Tom Brady’s outstanding fourth quarter.

“Everyone has confidence in him”, Brady said Monday on WEEI’s “Dennis, Callahan and Minihane”. Even the usually reliable Edelman, who caught the winning TD in the Super Bowl, dropped a slant in the end zone on the first drive of the third quarter after he had beaten Revis badly. He made a real smart play.

“Those dudes are big and those dudes are fast”, Gronk said of the Jets.

“Just bad football”, the former first-round pick from Florida State said when asked about what happened.

– Brandon Marshall is still a bozo.

Tom Brady threw the ball 54 times, and was sacked three other times.

Brady was 7 for 8 for 85 yards on the next drive, finishing it off with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Amendola, who was upended before landing on the goal line.

In the drive that culminated with Gronkowski’s final score, Amendola made a terrific leaping catch. Where’d he get that kind of vertical?

“He makes these insane, acrobatic catches. He looks like a gymnast half the time”, Gronkowski said of Amendola.

Once again operating in shotgun, Brady watches the Jets slide into zero-coverage – an all-out blitz that will leave virtually every receiver in a one-on-one situation. He’s super athletic; he’s that freaky athletic where he can jump super-quick. One that ends in the same place in the AFC East: with opponents in the division looking up in the standings, wondering what is left to throw at this unsolvable equation.