Five takeaways from the Patriots’ 33-0 shellacking of the Jets, as Tom Brady and Bill Belichick strengthen their stranglehold on the AFC by moving to 7-0 …
STARTED WITH A SILENCER
A first quarter that saw the Patriots outscore the Jets by a count of 17-0, outgain the Jets by a margin of 141-14, and outclass the Jets by a gap wide enough to evoke memories of the Butt Fumble featured plenty to like from New England’s perspective. But perhaps most impressive of it all was the game’s opening possession.
That series was a 16-play, 78-yard, eight-minute-and-47-second tour de force during which it appeared as though the Patriots came out of an 11-day break determined to answer all the criticisms that have been levied at their offense.