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Randy Moss makes a great, great, great catch for a tying TD as New York allows the Pats right down the field. Mangini will hear about the switch to the prevent defense in the last 1:20 in the papers and on the FAN if the J-E-T-S go down in overtime.
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The officials have been mighty kind to your Patriots over the first 9 games. They really stung the home team tonight, including a bogus hold on Mike Vrabel to give up the lead-taking TD by the Jets.
NY gets to run off extra time, over a minute anyway and forced the Pats to burn their timeouts.
3:10 to go, the Jets are up 31-24.
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So what happens now?
The Jets, once in complete control, simply have curled up into a little ball of goo.
They aren’t making plays like they did early, and Brett Favre is playing tentatively.
Matt Cassel has done all anyone could ask leading his team back. Now New England needs a stop and then to go for the jugular.
A big play on the kickoff wouldn’t hurt either.
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I’d love to say it’s a spirited effort by the Patriots, it’s kind of monotonous and the home team has clawed in it.
The Jets stopped attacking Matt Cassel, or the New Englanders found a way to neutralize the rush. Either way, the Pats own all the momentum as we go to the fourth quarter, 24-21 NYJ.
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The Patriots have made good on my prediction that it would be a field goal game, at least offensively until their final play of the half.
Matt Cassel’s best throw of the year, from 19 out, gets the home team back in it at 24-13. The throw was perfect.
Otherwise, when you kick 3s and the other team runs back the kickoff for 7s, it’s not good.
No show effort by the defense in the half, which allowed … continued »
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A flat-out incredible catch by Jericho Cotchery on a 67-yard bomb helps make it 24-6.
Yes, that was Ellis Hobbs, out on an island by himself. He couldn’t even interfere right.
Again, a comback will only come on Matt Cassel’s shoulders.
This is the most important 4:57 of his pro career coming up.
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