Oh wait! He was! That worked out pretty well then.
What was supposed to be the game of the week turned into an unmitigated disaster for the Jets on Monday Night as they travelled up to Foxboro.
New England would start off the game scoring on their first 4 possessions (3 TDs and a FG) while the Jets offense could only muster a solitary FG- not just in the first quarter, but all night.
17-3 was as close as the score would get on Monday night. With a 24-3 halftime lead, the late 'Dandy' Don Meredith could've started serenading viewers with Turn Out The Lights.
And this isn't an attempt at being ironic or sarcastic and trying to and build up suspense. This was an old fashioned ass-kicking with the Pats pretty much moving the ball down the field at will. The guys dressed as minutemen who fire off muskets at the stadium probably ran out of powder on Monday night as New England absolutely throttled the Jets by a final of 45-3. This was the worse loss for the Jets since 1986.
On a completely unrelated note, Teddy Bruschi was honored at a ceremony at halftime where his number 54 was retired by Pats owner Robert Kraft.
Perhaps the only infuriating thing from the perspective of Pats fan about the Monday Night game was the fact that pretty much all of the starters for New England were still in when the game was well in hand.Tom Brady went 21-29 with 326 yards and 4 TDs on the night, connecting with Brandon Tate, Wes Welker, Deion Branch, Aaron Hernandez. This is Brady's 26th straight regular-season win at Gillette Stadium.
Ben Jarvus Green-Ellis had 18 carries for 72 yards and 2 TDs while Shayne Graham was 1 for 1 in field goal attempts.
The next Joe Namath Jets QB, Mark Sanchez, went 17-33 with 3 interceptions and 164 total yards on the night. He actually did get the Jets down inside the Pats 10 on their opening drive of the 2nd half, but his pass was intercepted by Brandon Spikes at the 2 yard line, which in turn culminated in Brady connecting with Welker for an 18 yard TD run. James Sanders- hero of the game against the Colts a few weeks ago- and Devin McCourty also had interceptions on the night; McCourty's INT was his 6th of the season.
No 10-day wait for the next Pats game, though. The Pats will next travel to Soldier Field to take on the 9-3 Chicago Bears at 4:15 PM ET. There is one more night game left for New England, actually- and this comes against another NFC opponent when they host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday December 19.
BRONCOS: The Denver Broncos fired head coach Josh McDaniels on Monday, a few weeks after allegations of team personnel videotaping the San Francisco Giant's practise before their regular season game in England earlier this year- a game that the Broncos lost anyway. Under McDaniels, the Broncos traded Denver's top draft pick Jay Cutler to the Chicago Bears.
Denver RB Coach Eric Studesville will serve as interim coach for the remainder of the season.
COWBOYS: Broadcaster and former SMU and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith passed away from a brain hemorrhage at his Santa Fe, NM home at the age of 72 on Sunday night. With the Cowboys from the very beginning, 'Dandy Don' Meredith played in back-to-back NFL Championships against the Green Bay Packers and Bart Starr, including the 1967 'Ice Bowl'. The Cowboys would lose both of those games.
After his playing career, Meredith made a name for himself in the early 1970s from the broadcast booth of ABC's brand-new Monday Night Football. Trading barbs with fellow sportscaster Howard Cosell, Meredith would often close out a broadcast by singing an off key version of Willie Nelson's Turn Out the Lights.
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