FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Take a dose of injuries, add a measure of disciplinary action, blend in guys who were new to an NFL game. And the result is a major mess.
Or you could call it the Jets’ secondary, the area Tom Brady carved up with precision and four touchdowns Sunday in the Patriots’ 38-3 ritualistic rout at Gillette Stadium in what was the final game of Todd Bowles’ Jets coaching tenure.
In the morning Sunday, it was revealed the Jets’ $72.5 million free-agent signing, cornerback Trumaine Johnson, would be benched for disciplinary reasons. Johnson, who by his own admission has been “mediocre” in the first season of his five-year deal, was late Wednesday and did not practice that day.