NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS shoot down the NY JETS 49-19 on Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day feasting didn't end with a fabulous meal - It extended onto the playing field as the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS roasted the NY JETS 49-19.

Rex Ryan has been the "turkey" of the AFC East for quite some time. 

His mouth has been writing checks his arse can't cash.

Seeing the NY Jets get thrashed like this was the perfect end to a Thanksgiving Day to be remembered.


Patriots erupt in second quarter to blow out Jets 49-19
By Shalise Manza Young
Boston Globe Staff /  November 22, 2012

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Just when it seemed the blend of Thanksgiving dinner Tryptophan and a boring opening 15 minutes of football in the Patriots-Jets rematch would lull even the most diehard fan into an early slumber, one team woke up at MetLife Stadium.
 
Unfortunately for most of the assembled fans, it wasn’t the Jets. Though by halftime the team and its fans probably wished what they’d experienced during the second quarter was a nightmare and not reality.
 
After holding the Patriots scoreless in the first quarter — the first time that’s happened this season to New England — the Jets then saw the game, and their season, implode.
 
Embarrassed at home, 49-14, New York fell to 4-7 while New England is now 8-3, 4-0 in the AFC East.
 
It was Bill Belichick’s 200th career win, and though he would never say it, it was likely a bit sweeter that it came against the Jets given all of the personal and professional history he has with the organization.
 
The Patriots went into halftime with a 35-3 lead on a series of plays that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.
 
It was so embarrassing for Jets fans that some began heading home before intermission. Those who remained began chanting for quarterback Tim Tebow to get into the game.
 
The Patriots had a chance to score in the first quarter but Stephen Gostkowski missed a 39-yard field goal wide left.
 
On the Jets’ possession following the miss, Steve Gregory intercepted Mark Sanchez when the Jets quarterback threw into double coverage.
 
New England started well inside its territory, but Tom Brady methodically led the offense on a six-minute scoring drive. Three Jets penalties aided the cause, including a 15-yard facemask at the end of a 13-yard Shane Vereen run that gave the Patriots first and goal.
 
New England’s TD came on the first play of the second quarter, when Brady found a wide-open Wes Welker in the front right corner of the end zone.
 
Brady had all sorts of time, a credit to an offensive line that was without Logan Mankins and Sebastian Vollmer. Donald Thomas was at left guard again, as he has been since Mankins has been out with several injuries, and Marcus Cannon started for Vollmer at right tackle.
 
The defense stuffed running back Shonn Greene on fourth and 1; Brandon Spikes stripped the ball at the end of the play, and Gregory recovered it.
 
One play led to New England going up, 14-0. Brady hit Vereen, all alone to his left, and the second-year running back was off to the races, an 83-yard catch-and-run touchdown.
 
That was a crack in the dam.
 
In less than 60 seconds of game time, it burst open.
 
On the second play of the Jets’ ensuing possession, there was a botched play — it looked as if Sanchez wanted to hand off to Lex Hilliard but Hilliard ran right past him.

Rather than try to look for a receiver, Sanchez tucked the ball and promptly ran smack into the ample behind of right guard Brandon Moore, fumbling the ball.
 
Again it was Gregory who was in the right place. He scooped up the loose ball and ran it back 32 yards to give New England a 21-0 lead.
 
On the ensuing kickoff, Joe McKnight got out to the 25, but Devin McCourty popped the ball out.
 
Julian Edelman plucked the ball out of the air and ran it back into the end zone. Patriots, 28-0.
 
And they weren’t done.

After the defense forced a punt, Brady and Edelman turned a third-and-5 play into a 56-yard TD catch.
 
The 35 tied the team record for points in a quarter.

The boos from Jets fans only intensified when they kicked a 32-yard field goal just before halftime instead of trying for the end zone.
 
Shalise Manza Young can be reached at syoung@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @shalisemyoung.

PATS 37 - JETS 16 - This win was sweeeeeeeeet

The PATS - JETS games have become one of the main "reasons for the season" as New England has had to deal with the Jets and their foot-fetish loud mouth coach Rex Ryan who have become their main rival in the league.

Ryan and his team are not pushovers but they are also not on the level of New England. The team has a bombastic leader, ex-con players like Plaxico Burress (who names their kid "Plaxico" ?) and other assorted miscreants like LT and Cromartie. NY has no class, it is as simple as that.

Well if you paid attention to the talking heads on the talk shows, you would have heard many predict the demise of the PATS - WRONG ! New England took the Jets to task and the critics too. And rightly so. New England will now have home field advantage if the JETS survive to the end of the season.

PATS 37- JETS 16. AWESOME. That should shut up the Jets fans and their coach for a while.


Sweet sounds of silence
By Bob Ryan
Globe Columnist / November 14, 2011
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - This is not why they play. We know that. No professional sports team plays in order to shut up the loud-mouth coach of some other team.

But let’s be realistic. Winning this game, at this particular time, in this particular place . . . C’mon, this had to be sweeeeeeeeet!

And, my Lord. What loyal fans! The crowd of 79,088 was down to a gathering that could have been squeezed into Rex Ryan’s basement by game’s end.

“You’re not going to beat New England - you’re not going to beat many teams - when you make the mistakes we made,’’ the Jets coach confessed. “We’ve been down this road before. I apologize to our fans. They were ready for the game, just like I thought we were ready. Disappointing.’’

The long-term ramifications of this exquisite 37-16 Patriots triumph include control of the AFC East, which, combined with Buffalo’s implosion in Dallas - their third straight loss - is now New England’s to win or lose.

But let’s dwell on the short term, because this Patriots’ performance deserves to be saluted. There is no way to exaggerate the hype leading up to this game down here. This was going to be the Armageddon of all Armageddons, the night when the balance of power in the northeast quadrant of the American Football Conference was going to shift in favor of the New York Jets, once and for all.

It wasn’t just the media cranking it up. They were armed with ample verbal ammunition supplied by both the Jets coaching staff and many of the Jets players. There didn’t seem to be the slightest doubt in anyone’s mind that the Jets would win, and win convincingly.

But the Jets laid a pretty good-sized Brontosaurus egg, starting with Nick Folk missing a 24-yard field goal on the first possession of the game, and continuing with some awful turnovers. There was a muffed punt by Joe McKnight that led to a Patriots field goal, and there were two Mark Sanchez interceptions, the first setting up a third-quarter touchdown and the second being what you call a pick-six.

Oops, almost forgot. The man winding up in possession of both INTs was linebacker Rob Ninkovich. He was a somewhat lucky beneficiary of good fortune on the first, which was deflected from intended receiver Shonn Greene to Jerod Mayo and then to Ninko, who returned it 18 yards.

But Ninko made his own luck on the second one, jumping LaDainian Tomlinson’s route and taking it 12 yards to the house to put the game out of reach at that 37-16 juncture with 7:45 remaining, at which point the great fan exodus to the MetLife Stadium parking lots began.

Tom Brady did have his little moments of mortality in the first quarter and a half with some weirdly off-target throws, but, starting with the final possession of the half, he reminded the boisterous mentor of the Jets that one of the significant gaps between his team and Ryan’s team remains the experience and skill level of the respective quarterbacks.

For while Mark Sanchez was little better than NFL average from start to finish, Tom Brady (26 for 39, 329 yards, three TDs, zero INTs) performed at his eventual Canton level when it most mattered.

After the Jets had scored to take a 9-6 lead with 1:20 remaining in the half, he took the Patriots 80 yards in six plays in an elapsed time of 1:11, capping the drive with an 18-yard touchdown pass to the indispensable Rob Gronkowski (eight catches, 113 yards). That play, on which The Gronkster went high in the back corner of the end zone against Jets cornerback Donald Strickland, was a simple matter of 6 feet 6 inches, 265 pounds vs. 5-10, 185. More than that, it was an unfair battle between great athlete 6-6, 265 against great athlete 5-10, 185.

And when Plaxico Burress hauled in a 7-yard quasi-fade from Sanchez to cut New England’s lead to 23-16 on the first play of the fourth quarter, you knew that if the Patriots didn’t respond right then and there, the rest of the game was going to be very dicey.

Taking over on his 16, Brady orchestrated a 13-play drive that chewed up 6:51. The drive ended when Brady hit Deion Branch on about the 2 or 3 and the little guy spun into the end zone, whereupon he did a mock J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets routine right in front of famed Jets fan Fireman Ed. A bit over the top, maybe even a bit classless? Well, sure. But that tells you the Patriots knew very well what had been going on down here all week.

One of the things Brady did to bother the Jets was go into hurry-up mode on that scoring drive at the end of the half. The Jets acted as if this was an absolutely novel concept, something never before seen in the history of the National Football League.

“We had to be alert for it,’’ Ryan said. “We never could get the matchups we wanted. You have to give them credit.’’

The Patriots should get credit for a lot, including five sacks, 4 1/2 being credited to Andre Carter, and one-half to Mark Anderson. The defense, which has been showing incremental improvement in the last two games, was, well, professional. Hey, this year we’ll take anything under 400 yards.

It was just too bad the return trip was so short. The Patriots deserved a better shot at celebrating after this one.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - " We'll do our talking out on the field, where the pictures are worth a million words, not in sound bites..."

Yes, I am biased toward the New England Patriots in the AFC Match-up this Sunday between our Beloved New England Patriots and the Wanna-be low-rent NY Jets. My fandom for the Patriots is not something that should surprise anyone as in this neck of the woods, it is the classic Boston - NY rivalry.

For example:

RED SOX vs. YANKEES - (RED SOX are the classy team)
PATRIOTS vs. JETS - ( PATRIOTS - Ditto )
BRUINS vs. RANGERS - (BRUINS - They take no prisoners)
CELTICS vs. KNICKS - ( CELTICS - Knicks are a joke)

And so it goes.....Now we have a Loud Mouth Braggart Coach, Rex "yes-my-wife & I have-a-foot-fetish" Ryan acting like he himself will be out there on the field playing the game against Tom Brady....ridiculous.

Bill Belichick has no need to run his mouth - He displays the quiet steady Leadership that marks a Champion....His opponent coaching the Jets looks like the loud obnoxious idiot you avoid at all costs....Ryan is a feckless bastard who will be taught yet another lesson this Sunday by the Masters, Brady & Belichick

And just to provide further evidence, let's look at the Patriots by the numbers:

1 -- Number of Super Bowl victories that quarterback Tom Brady needs to tie Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw for the most Super Bowl wins by a starting quarterback in NFL history. Brady is tied with Troy Aikman with three.

5 -- Number of conference championship game berths since 2000, tied with the Eagles for the most since that year.

9 -- The Patriots are the only team in the NFL to have recorded nine or more wins in each of the last 10 seasons.

14 -- Number of playoff games the Patriots have won in the past 10 years, tied for the most by any team in any 10-year period.

.846 -- The Patriots' home playoff winning percentage, the best mark in NFL history (11 wins in 13 games).

SUNDAY will be the next step in the Championship season during which the PATRIOTS have demonstrated that they are the class of the league.....Sunday afternoon will be the battle and we will be there watching faithfully. GO NEW ENGLAND !!!


Jets noise mostly bounces off even-keel Patriots
By Len Pasquarelli
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com
Jan. 12, 2011

Coach Blowhard may have put his foot in his mouth again -- as opposed, one might point out, to someone else's tootsies between his incisors -- when he reissued the hackneyed "it's personal" challenge to characterize Sunday's third meeting with the New England Patriots this season.

For those who pay attention to semantics, that's "it's personal" as opposed to the lame "personal matter" camouflage behind which he recently reverted to deflect all those foot-fetish accusations of the past few weeks. Similar words, of course, but different intents, indeed, even the outspoken New York Jets head coach and resident manure-stirrer Rex Ryan would agree.

While his purposeful goal may have been to increase the temperature of a Jets team that ironically figures to confront polarized extremes late Sunday afternoon -- the league's hottest offense playing in Arctic-level conditions -- Ryan has succeeded in ratcheting up the rhetoric. But just as significantly, he has raised the hackles of a New England bunch that seems to successfully subvert its sentiments.

The latest example, taking Ryan's hyperbolic lead, came Tuesday, when cornerback Antonio Cromartie termed Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady an orifice from which human manure exits. Pretty strong words from a guy who on national television, couldn't remember the ages of his seven kids. For the sake of the Jets and Ryan, here's hoping that Cromartie, who has fathered the seven children with six different women, exercises more discipline in his coverage techniques that he apparently did with his contraceptive methods.

Noted one Patriots veteran on Tuesday evening, reacting to Ryan and Cromartie, but declining for fear of retribution from his coach or his teammates to attach his name to his words: "Damn right we're (upset). But we bite our tongues here. It's part of what you marry into when you come here. We'll do our talking out on the field, where the pictures are worth a million words, not in sound bites that are going to get all that useless attention."

Credit Ryan and Cromartie and the rest of the mouthy Jets for at least standing behind their trash-talking. The Jets don't talk off the record or without attribution, and for such lack of cover they are to be congratulated. But they are like the sassy neighbor who lives next door, but carries on his battles across the backyard fence, and always finds a ready excuse to dash back inside when you're both out getting the mail at the same time.

Measure, not mouthiness, usually wins such critical NFL games. And there is no more measured team than the Patriots, who reflect the dispassion of their coach, in much the same way the Jets mimic their leader. It's easy for the media to be critical of Bill Belichick, because you leave his press conferences with a notebook page half-filled, as opposed to requiring a couple legal pads for Ryan's rants. But neither man would have it any other way. And just as the bluster of Ryan now permeates his team, the publically even-keel approach of Belichick prevails with the Pats.

The overriding promise of The Wizard of Oz is that, once the needy had navigated the treacherous yellow brick road, the great and powerful man would deliver, among other things, a heart and courage to the deficient. The truth, though, was that The Wizard rendered his best rhetoric from behind a curtain. Ryan doesn't ask for any draperies, but the curtain could come down on his shtick if he and his team fail to deliver on their inflammatory words.

In New England, it's understood that you play, and you act, like a Patriot. With the Jets? Well, as the HBO series Hard Knocks displayed, they've got to erect signs that remind their charges to "Play like a Jet." Even if his history of the franchise is more along the lines of the performance of a bi-plane. And they've got to stoke the players with those "it's personal" proclamations. In New England, conversely, nary is heard a discouraging, or defamatory word.

Notable with the two AFC East rivals is that each has a "New" in front on its name. But the guess is that, on Sunday afternoon, it's going to be the same old story: the braggadocious bully may win the debate, but probably not the football game