For the first time with a quarterback not named Tom Brady, the Patriots (9-2) have won eight straight games. And they seem to have another star quarterback — and an emerging sidekick — on their hands. Drake Maye played another strong game, TreVeyon Henderson scored three touchdowns, and New England cruised past the Jets, 27-14.<\/p>\n
Maye completed 25 of 34 passes for 281 yards and a score, fittingly, to Henderson. After scoring just one touchdown in his first nine NFL games, Henderson has five touchdowns in his last two.<\/p>\n
The Jets (2-8) got off to a good enough start, taking the opening kickoff and embarking on a 14-play, 72-yard drive that took over eight minutes. It was the Jets’ first opening-possession touchdown this season and their first opening-drive touchdown at the Patriots since 2012. The drive featured 11 runs, including a Justin Fields 4-yarder to find the end zone.<\/p>\n
The Patriots came back with a similarly methodical — though much more balanced — drive: 13 plays and 69 yards over 7:40. Henderson powered in from 7 yards out.<\/p>\n
The Patriots forced a three-and-out and went on another lengthy drive, culminating in Henderson again scoring from 7 yards out. The Patriots had a chance to add even more before halftime, but Andy Borregales missed a 45-yard field goal as the half expired.<\/p>\n
The hosts extended their lead to 21-7 with Maye’s first touchdown pass of the night — a nice floater to Henderson — but the Jets answered right back on a Fields 22-yard pass to John Metchie III.<\/p>\n
Later, down 24-14, Fields mishandled a snap and, instead of jumping on the ball, tried to pick it up and run. That failed, though, and Anfernee Jennings recovered. The Patriots tacked on another field goal.<\/p>\n
Given one last chance to make it a game, the Jets drove deep into Patriots territory, but Elijah Ponder sacked Fields on third down, and Jeremy Ruckert couldn’t hang onto Fields’ fourth-down pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time with a quarterback not named Tom Brady, the Patriots (9-2) have won eight straight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1718,1723,514,114040,114039,41917,128208,128211,128209,128212,128210,82,44228,105725],"class_list":["post-281813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-live-blog","tag-nfl-live-updates","tag-nfl-scores","tag-nfl-week-11","tag-patriots-vs-jets-highlights","tag-patriots-vs-jets-live","tag-patriots-vs-jets-live-stream","tag-patriots-vs-jets-score","tag-sports","tag-thursday-night-football","tag-tnf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}