Maybe it was the Thursday evening jinx. Maybe the rain performed an element.
But for the second week in a row, the Patriots had been fortunate to beat a division foe, barely outlasting the Jets, thirteen-10. And it was ugly all the way around,
Tom Brady regarded very annoyed a lot of the night time, and it took a giant effort from Julian Edelman (doing Danny Amendola doing Wes Welker), who had thirteen clutch catches for seventy eight yards, and 72 extra yards on punt returns, for the Patriots to come out winners despite a ability-position group that has been torn to shreds. Incredible: Brady had solely 19 completions on 39 makes an attempt for 185 yards.
Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith impressed with his throwing skill at occasions, throwing for 214 yards — 29 more than Brady had, on 4 fewer makes an attempt — and rallied from several large hits
However Smith took 4 sacks, burned timeouts unnecessarily and was too sluggish to course of info and react on a pink-zone interception within the fourth quarter that quashed a fantastic scoring alternative with the Patriots vulnerable. Smith got the ball back with fifty six seconds left from his own 29-yard line — a more favorable scenario than in Week 1′s comeback towards the Buccaneers — but threw a horrible choose that landed in the fingers of Aqib Talib. It was Smith’s third INT of an evening that began so promisingly.
That last pick led to an enormous scrum with 38 seconds left, as Jets heart Nick Mangold went very low to sort out Talib, who dilly-dallied earlier than going out of bounds. It was just one other feisty chapter within the bitter Jets-Patriots rivalry as a slew of players pushed and shoved, and two Jets, Willie Colon (hitting an official) and D’Bricashaw Ferguson (throwing a punch), had been ejected. Anticipate hefty fines — at least — for Colon, Ferguson and Mangold.
Dropped passes had been the story of the night time, for both sides, in what was a horribly tough game to look at. Aaron Dobson, despite a primary-NFL-play TD, dropped two straight within the collection through which Brady lost his cool on the sphere and on the sideline. Clyde Gates dropped what would have been a landing for the Jets, and Kenbrell Thompkins could not haul in what seemed like a pretty TD for New England. There were not less than a dozen drops combined for the 2 teams, and it went beyond the moist discipline situations.
The Jets controlled the motion for much of the night with a rhythm passing recreation and a bruising speeding assault, but they only could mount one landing drive. Smith’s second interception of the night time, with four:23 remaining, was his second poor decision on an in any other case pretty good night time throwing the soccer.
Brady and the offense took over after that but couldn’t run out the clock. They had problems sustaining drives all evening.
Looking forward, there are issues for both groups. The Patriots could be 2-0, but they have some critical self-scouting to do to find ways to move the chains persistently before Rob Gronkowski and Amendola return to the lineup. Throwing the ball that occasions to Edelman, as game as he was, simply isn’t a profitable technique for the long haul.
For the Jets, it is clear that Smith can make all the throws. He has particular arm talent. He simply wants extra refinement within the other aspects of his game, and it would not assist if his receivers could hold onto the ball. But things turned ugly quick late, and it is clear that Smith is going to have some rocky Sundays this yr.
These two teams proper now aren’t as far apart, expertise-sensible, as they’ve been the past two seasons. The close score is a reasonably good indication of that. In the end, the Patriots had been just a little better.
New England Patriots beat New York Jets in sloppy game that turns ugly with late fight
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