Sanchez, and Jets embarass themselves in New England

PATRIOTS 30
JETS 21

The Jets are in free-fall. After two hideous losses to the Raiders and Ravens on consecutive weeks, the Jets came up snake eyes yet again, this time against the hated New England Patriots, 30-21, as the Pats covered the spread.

While the Jets running game was solid this time around; Shonn Greene actually showed up and ran for 83 yards, so the full blame for this disaster falls at the feet of Mark Sanchez and Brian Schottenheimer.

Against the worst passing defense in the NFL the Jets managed only 255 yards of offense, threw for only 166 yards through the air, and had eight three-and-outs against a defense that forced eight three-and-outs all season!!

Sanchez really stunk it up. He was terribly inaccurate for the first three quarters of the game, failing to complete a pass for a first down in the first quarter and throwing for only 70 yards through 45 minutes of action. Even though his quarterback rating was good, it doesn't paint the picture for how horrible he was.

As for the play calling? What can I say? Brian Schottenheimer doesn't get it. He has four huge weapons in Dustin Keller, Santonio Holmes, Braylon Edwards and Derrick Mason, and these guys never get a chance to touch the football. Holmes and Edwards were again silent through the first three quarters of the game, held to four catches and three catches respectively. Keller was held to one catch against the worst defense in football. Unacceptable.

Defensively the Jets were terrible. They couldn't get off the field on third down, and when the team needed them to get a stop, they never did, as Ben Jarvis Green-Ellis ate up the Jets run defense for 136 yards.

Even Tom Brady found wide open holes in the Jets secondary, completing huge passes to Wes Welker, Deion Branch and Aaron Hernandez. Welker had a catch of 73 yards on a slant, clearly out-playing famed Revis Island.

Even though the Patriots didn't play great in this game, turning the ball over before halftime, keeping the Jets within three, the Jets defense didn't have an answer. That 73 yard catch by Welker helped set up a two yard scoring strike to Branch to give the Pats a 17-7 lead.

After Gang Green cut the deficit to 17-14, the Patriots rammed the ball on an 11 play 77 yard drive, culminating in a Green-Ellis touchdown to make it 24-14.

It was an uneven, abysmal night for the Jets -- one that has this team in complete free fall as they stand at 2-3 on the season, a full two games behind the Patriots and Bills for first place in the AFC East.