FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — They are fearless and defiant Road Warriors, who revel in turning the roar of the hostile crowd into a whimper, who embrace the sight of star rookie Sauce Gardner parading around Lambeau Field wearing a cheesehead.
But on Sunday, when the Jets’ team bus pulls up to Gillette Stadium, filled with first-place ambition, it shouldn’t surprise anyone if Bill Belichick is standing outside eager to usher the visitors into his longtime House of Horrors.
These Jets don’t care that they last won here in 2010, when Mark Sanchez beat Tom Brady in the divisional playoff round, and these Jets don’t care that they have lost 13 straight to the Patriots.