Amidst all the hysteria of the play call second-guessing and the "did the Jets forget they have Brett Favre?" nonsense (and by the way, that is nonsense ... the Jets are running many of the same plays Favre ran in Green Bay ... but I digress), what seemed to be lost in the background noise after the Patriots game was the single biggest reason the Jets came up short. Field position was, by far, the… More

There was no joy in the Jets' Gillette Stadium locker room after their 20-10 defeat by the undefeated Patriots in the rain and surrounded by the morning's snow. As Chad Pennington said, "I don't think you ever prove a point by losing."

So call it cold comfort. The Jets weren't a happy bunch, but they came as close as all but Baltimore and Philadelphia in trying to hang that first L on the Pats.

Many fans are scratching their heads and gnashing their teeth over trying to find positives in Sunday's home-opening loss to New England. One nice special teams development did occur early in the second quarter when the Patriots botched a Stephen Gostkowski field goal try that would have given the visitors a 10-0 lead.

You can say that was all Patriots because the FG snap basically hit holder Mat… More