What if I told you the Jets actually might be competent and give the Patriots a game on Sunday in Foxborough?
OK, OK, I’ll wait for you to stop.
For real, though, Sunday’s game might not be a total laugher, as they have been for 14 of the past 15 Patriots-Jets matchups at Gillette Stadium. The 3-2 Patriots are rolling again, but the Jets are a surprising 2-3 after defeating the Browns in a driving rainstorm.
“I think they’ve got, I wouldn’t say a new ferociousness, but you can see the difference on tape from last year,” Patriots quarterback Drake Maye said. “They have some new faces, some new mentality. I think they’re buying into really what Coach [Aaron] Glenn — how he wants to play defense.”
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