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How Patriots’ ‘eye-opening’ blueprint has shut down Brandon Marshall

When we last left the Jets, their quarterback was throwing an all-or-nothing fourth-down pass from the 4-yard line to a backup blocking tight end in the waning seconds of a massive swing game against the Bills.

You know how that worked out. It didn’t. The Jets lost, failing to get to 6-3 and seize control of the AFC wild-card playoff race, instead dropping to 5-4 with their third loss in the past four games.

Why, you ask, was Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick throwing the most important pass of the game to Kellen Davis, who’d been targeted with one pass all season to that point, and not Brandon Marshall, their star receiver?