Jets' season on life support with loss to lowly Patriots on last-minute touchdown
Just when you think the Jets can’t sink any lower, they find a way.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Just when you think the Jets can’t sink any lower, they find a way.
The Jets lost to the dismal Patriots on Sunday at Gillette Stadium, 25-22, giving up a last-minute touchdown to suffer their fifth straight loss and fall to 2-6 and putting their season on life support before Halloween even arrives.
The Jets took a 22-17 lead three minutes left in the game, but the Patriots put together a game-winning drive that would make Tom Brady proud. Quarterback Jacoby Brissett, who was playing in place of an injured Drake Maye, orchestrated a 12-play, 70-yard drive.
Rhamondre Stevenson scored on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line with 22 seconds left in the game and then scored the two-point conversion to sink the Jets to new depths.
On the game-winning drive, Brissett scrambled for 14 yards on one third down and then threw a 34-yard pass to Kayshon Boutte, who beat Sauce Gardner, to move the ball to the Jets’ 9-yard line. The Jets stopped them for three plays before Stevenson plunged in from the 1.