If history tells us anything, Sunday’s Patriots-Jets game is no automatic walkover.
New England enters the contest as 9.5-point favorites, but the last five meetings in the Meadowlands have each been decided by one possession. There’s a level of familiarity between the two conference foes, which face off at least twice a year, but Patriots coach Bill Belichick said he’s not going to muddy things up just for the sake of throwing their opponent off on Sunday.
“I don’t think we want to come in here and run the wishbone because they haven’t seen it before,” he said before practice at Gillette Stadium Friday.