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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — After the Patriots' fourth touchdown in six minutes Thursday night, the NBC cameras panned to Rex Ryan. Nostrils flaring, eyes burning, he looked like a man who had chased a bushel of habaneros with a bucket of nails. He said but one word: unbelievable.
This being Ryan, of course, he added an expletive. It was surprising that he uttered only one. On national television, the Jets lost, 49-19, to New England, a defeat that recalibrated how words like embarrassing and absurd are used to describe the franchise.
And to think, they might have had a chance to win. If only they had not forgotten to cover Shane Vereen on his 83-yard touchdown. Or had Brandon Moore's posterior not slammed into Mark Sanchez's head, causing a fumble that New England returned for a score. Or had Joe McKnight not fumbled the ensuing kickoff, leading to another touchdown return. Or had they not committed five turnovers. Or had they not ...
Mathematically, the Jets have not been eliminated from the playoff chase. But it is difficult to fathom that this 4-7 team can win its last five games, which is what the Jets would need to do to sniff the playoffs, to borrow a phrase from Ryan. There is no such thing anymore as a soft schedule, which they seemingly had. For the Jets, every opponent portends disaster — especially themselves.
"We're about as wounded as you could possibly be, but we're not dead," Ryan said.
By halftime, it was obvious that the Jets' victory — their decisive victory — Sunday in St. Louis was merely a break from regularly scheduled programming: a three-hour installment of ineptitude, of failure, of suffering. Consider this statistic: the Patriots possessed the ball for 2 minutes 14 seconds in the second quarter and scored 35 points. And this one: Steve Gregory accounted for three of New England's turnovers, intercepting one pass and recovering two fumbles, including a 32-yard return that extended the Patriots' lead to 21-0.
The Jets yielded the most points since Miami scored 52 in the 1995 season opener, surpassing the 45-3 Monday night massacre at Gillette Stadium in 2010. Back then, the expectations were higher. They had beaten New England earlier that season. That coveted division title was within reach.
This defeat, in some ways, is even worse. The Jets needed to win Thursday. Or at least they needed to show that they are not an outfit that was out-coached, outclassed and outplayed.
"I know our fans deserve a heck of a lot better than this," Ryan said. He added, "Thirty-five points in a quarter, I thought that was almost impossible to do."
This is the time of year when the Patriots distinguish themselves from the rest of the conference. New England won its 19th consecutive game in the second half of a season, and Tom Brady completed 18 of 28 passes for 323 yards and 3 touchdowns. His counterpart on the Jets, Sanchez, played as poorly as he did well in St. Louis, looking overmatched against the 30th-ranked defense in the N.F.L. Tim Tebow did not play because of two fractured ribs, sustained against the Seattle Seahawks on Nov 11.
For the first 15 minutes, the game was scoreless. And then a blooper reel exploded on the MetLife Stadium turf. It might have been the most horrific 12 minutes in Jets history. It was cover-your-children's-eyes bad. If a newcomer to football had tuned into Thursday's game, he might have turned it off — but not before a more worldly fan had told him that those 12 minutes summed up the Jets.
With more than a quarter remaining of this debacle of a season, the Jets have been shut out by 34 points at home; had a punt and a field goal blocked in the same game; and had a pass clang off Tebow's helmet. And yet, nothing will compare to how the Patriots blitzed the Jets on Thursday, increasing their lead from 7-0 to 14-0 to 21-0 to 28-0 to 35-0, with the defining image a broken play that will never appear on the Jets' highlight tape of 2012 (if such a thing will exist).
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