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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Justin Fields utilized his legs to springiness the New York Jets an aboriginal lead.
Then helium stopped running.
And the Jets stopped moving the ball.
Fields ran 5 times for 28 yards and a 5-yard people connected New York’s opening drive, but helium was small assistance throwing the shot Thursday nighttime successful a 27-14 nonaccomplishment to the New England Patriots.
Fields was the team’s starring rusher with 67 yards, but helium completed conscionable 15 of 26 passes for 116 yards and a touchdown. Most of his occurrence came connected the archetypal possession, erstwhile helium led a 14-play thrust for the Jets’ archetypal game-opening touchdown since the extremity of past season.
“We were getting bully plays. Run crippled was good. O-line was controlling the enactment of scrimmage, and everybody was doing their job,” Fields said. “So, that archetypal drive, we came retired blistery and punched it in.”
In the 2nd quarter, though, helium didn’t tally the shot astatine all. And the Jets (2-8) went three-and-out 3 times successful a row.
“I felt similar if we get a accelerated commencement we’ll beryllium successful a bully position. And Justin ran the shot rather a bit,” manager Aaron Glenn said. “The happening is, we can’t enactment Justin successful a concern wherever he’s a moving back, and I deliberation we each cognize that, due to the fact that we volition enactment him successful harm’s way.”
But without Fields scrambling, the Jets couldn't bash overmuch astatine all.
After falling down 7-0, the Patriots (9-2) scored the adjacent 21 points — they besides missed a tract extremity — with Drake Maye starring them to their eighth consecutive victory.
The nonaccomplishment snapped a two-game winning streak that had taken immoderate of the gloom retired of a play that began with 7 consecutive losses.
Fields has thrown for less than 60 yards successful 4 games this season. After past week's triumph implicit the Browns, erstwhile Fields threw for 54 yards but the Jets won acknowledgment to 2 peculiar teams touchdowns, Glenn would not publically perpetrate to a starting quarterback.
“There were immoderate bully things -- truly bully things," the manager said Thursday. “I thought helium enactment immoderate balls retired there. We got to person immoderate guys that marque immoderate plays for him, too.
The Jets person averaged 140 nett passing yards successful their archetypal 10 games (Fields started 9 of them). In the past 14 seasons, lone the 2022 Bears, who averaged 128 yards successful their archetypal 10 games — with Fields starting each of them — person had fewer.
He is averaging 5.4 yards per carry.
“Whatever I person to bash to get this squad arsenic palmy arsenic tin beryllium and for america to scope our highest potential, I’m consenting to bash whatever. So if that’s maine moving the ball, that’s what it is.”
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