The Jets cover Ellis Hobbs' second-half KO return expertly, with Wallace Wright, the subject of Eric Allen's Special Teams Saturday feature, and Cody Spencer dropping Hobbs at the Pats 21.

Then Bryan Thomas — with his third sack of the season, surpassing last year's 2.5 total — and David Barrett on a nickel blitz drop QB Matt Cassel twice and the Jets look to be sitting pretty.

But Brett Fav… More

For those who thought the Patriots would be in for a 2008 fall post-Tom Brady, they were frustrated by the events of the first 1½ quarters of today's Jets home opener at the Meadowlands.

Matt Cassel looks calm, cool and collected — dare we say Bradyesque — in leading the visitors from Massachusetts to two time-consuming field goal drives and a 6-0 lead. Cassel, making his first start as we all … More

The Pats come to the line to go for it, call a timeout, then do go for it. And Tom Brady, out of the shotgun, once again converts a fourth-and-short vs. the Jets.

Then from first-and-10 at the Jets 17, good Jets pressure forces a Brady incompletion, Laurence Maroney gets 4 yards up the gut, then Brady hits Moss for 5 with Darrelle Revis preventing the first down. But it's fourth-and-short again.

Tom Brady told CBS before the game, "Physically, I've never felt better." And he showed it with a pair of third-down-conversion completions to move the Pats back toward the red zone at the top of the quarter.

The first came when he unloaded just before Dewayne Robertson hit him up the middle, hitting Randy Moss on the right sideline for a tiptoe catch in front of David Barrett. The second came on… More

For all the fans who know a wedge doesn't always come with blue cheese dressing, what a good hang time for a kickoff is, and that there's a difference between a dropkick and a drop punt, this day's for you.

Special Teams Saturday.

We hear it all the time from the NFL's coaches and players — "Special teams is one-third of the game" — but the mainstream media rarely pays attention, unless it's to … More