In their final game of the season, the 5-10 New York Jets faced Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the 12-3 New England Patriots at a frigid Gillette Stadium. At game time, the temperature was 13 degrees with a -2 wind chill. It was officially the coldest regular season game in Patriots team history. Coming in to the contest, Belichick had a lifetime record of 26-11 as a head coach against the Jets, with Brady as the winning quarterback in 24 of those games.<\/p>\n
New York, which had recently extended the contracts of Head Coach Todd Bowles and GM Mike Maccagnan, was looking to place a roadblock in New England\u2019s plan for playoff home-field advantage. For the Jets on offense, quarterback Bryce Petty received another start in place of Josh McCown, out for the year with a broken hand. Petty was looking to improve on his previous two performances in which he had a quarterback rating of below 50. WR Robby Anderson was trying to go over 1,000 yards receiving on the year and entered the contest only needing 61.<\/p>\n
The Jets traveled to Foxborough with a record of 54-62-1 against the Patriots. Here is the good, the bad and the ugly from the game\u2026<\/p>\n
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After the Jets went 57 yards in 7 plays, including long gains from WR Jermaine Kearse and RB Bilal Powell, K Chandler Catanzaro split the uprights from 48-yards.<\/p>\n
Catanzaro also hit a 35-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
TE Neal Sterling led all Jets receivers with 50 yards at the half. He totaled 5 receptions for 74 yards with a long of 35 for the game.<\/p>\n
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RB Dion Lewis scored on a 3-yard run on the Patriots\u2019 first series capping a 75-yard opening drive.<\/p>\n
Catanzaro missed a 40-yard field goal (wide left) at the start of the second quarter.<\/p>\n
In the second quarter, WR Brandon Cooks caught a 5-yards touchdown pass from Brady.<\/p>\n
Lewis caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Brady with 23 seconds left in the first half.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter, K Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 21-yard field goal.<\/p>\n
Petty was sacked in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
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*** Belichick had the Patriots crew put thermometers inside the Jets tunnel in an effort to remind them of the temperature.<\/p>\n
S Marcus Maye suffered a right ankle injury after colliding with S Jamal Adams on a long pass attempt by Brady.<\/p>\n
The Jets had 25 yards rushing in the first half and only 40 net total in the game.<\/p>\n
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Jets inactives included: CB Rashard Robinson, LB Freddie Bishop, T Brandon Shell, WR Lucky Whitehead, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, DL Deon Simon and DL Muhammad Wilkerson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In their final game of the season, the 5-10 New York Jets faced Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the 12-3 New England Patriots at a frigid Gillette Stadium. At game time, the temperature was 13 degrees with a -2 wind chill. It was officially the coldest regular season game in Patriots team history. Coming in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":38323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[489,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-game-recap","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/USATSI_10509039_158813650_lowres.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9Y0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38318,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316\/revisions\/38318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}