Steve Serby: Fitzpatrick made Patriots HC Bill Belichick’s diss backfire big time.
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After both teams exchanged a combined five punts, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady tied the game. He does things that make announcers scream and sends fans shrieking at their televisions. It was a move that left many scratching their heads.
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With seconds left in the fourth quarter, Denver’s Brandon McManus missed a field goal attempt, sending the game into overtime. There is also the long-held belief that nothing shreds a team’s hopes and dreams like uncertainty at quarterback.
Gronkowski entered the game needing 21 yards to pass Ben Coates (5,471) for the most receiving yards by a Patriots tight end.
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It obviously didn’t work out, because the Jets scored a touchdown on their opening drive of overtime to win the game 26-20.
It was just the 13th time in National Football League history that a team has won the overtime coin toss and elected to kick.
Eric Decker’s 6-yard touchdown catch from Ryan Fitzpatrick on the first drive of overtime lifted the Jets (10-5) to their fifth straight win and into position to make the playoffs with a victory next week.
“For that exact reason, so there wouldn’t be any confusion about what was going on”.
As far as the confusion over which way the kickoff would go, Belichick said, “The discussion (with his captains) was that we wanted to kick off, No. 1”.
On if there was any confusion after the overtime coin toss… Their other score came courtesy of a strip-sack of Fitzpatrick and 14-yard return of the fumble by linebacker Jamie Collins. Thanks, genius! Somebody forgot to tell Belichick there is FitzMagic in the air around these Jets. A touchdown and you win the game. On Sunday, the man who is usually called a genius seemed like a fool, which is why everyone assumed Slater heard him wrong.
“The Patriots’ 26-20 overtime loss to the New York Jets on Sunday at MetLife Stadium will forever live on as the Coin Toss Loss”. Fitzpatrick marched the Jets 80 yards in five plays, highlighted by a 48-yard catch-and-run by Quincy Enunwa and a 20-yard strike to Marshall.
Conditional on how its opponent’s previous drive ends, the average team kicking at the start of OT can have a pretty good opportunity to quickly counter-attack and end the game. The Browns picked up three first downs, and Manziel hit Darius Jennings on fourth-and-10 from the Chiefs 32. And it worked. He went from being stale, safe Rivera to “Riverboat Ron”, the swashbuckling coach willing to risk it all.
It’s a fitting scenario in that the Jets will have to defeat their former head coach to make the playoffs. That wrapped an 18-12 victory that kept Indianapolis in the hunt – barely – with Houston for the AFC South title.
Belichick has won four Super Bowls and almost taken two others. This team plays flat against bad teams and is now 3-8 in their last 11 against sub-.500 teams, so a win over the 3-12 Browns is no gimme.
Tom Brady has 4,636 yards passing through 15 games in 2015. Rather, he was making a logical, if ill-fated, gamble that the Patriots’ defense stood a good chance of stopping the Jets offense and reclaiming the ball around midfield. Perhaps this will matter in playoff seeding. “If we were playing a lot better offensively I’m sure his decision would have been different”.
In the locker room, Brady quickly dressed in a gray suit. “It’s really more a field-position consideration”. A Pro-Football-Reference search yielded 140 results, but since there are two teams in each game, the actual number of OT games since 2012 prior to Sunday was 68.
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As he walked quietly to the bus a small roar could be heard down the hall. The Jets under head coach Todd Bowles likely won’t say this afterward, but they delivered a statement with this win, and not just because they hung on after blowing a 17-3 second-half lead.
