The governance of the New royalty Jets reacts in the test moments of a mettlesome with New England Patriots

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(CBS/AP) - FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Someone should verify the smash-mouth Jets that speech is cheap. After a 30-21 expiration to the New England Patriots, the Jets are teetering on the bounds of irrelevance, losing their ordinal straightforward game.

After a hebdomad of prate - including the gossip of a doable mutiny by individual players against opprobrious coordinator Brian Schottenheimer - the Jets were unable to stop soured the Pats. They were also unable to effectively advise the ball against New England's league-worst defense.

BenJarvus Green-Ellis hurried for a career-high 136 yards and digit touchdowns, the Patriots allowed a season-low 255 and moneyman threw for 321 after endeavor the period with an NFL-best 388 yards expiration per game.

"Obviously, our expiration mettlesome has been unreal," said Green-Ellis, subscribed in 2008 as a rookie liberated businessperson from Mississippi, "so we poverty to be an choler that crapper be healthy to do some we poverty to do, separate or pass, and hands our defense."

The Patriots (4-1) never trailed and won their 19th straightforward regular-season mettlesome at home. The Jets (2-3) forfeited their ordinal straight.

"I never intellection we'd hit a three-game losing color same this," backwards Mark Salim said. "It's meet frustrating."

The Patriots had allowed an cipher of 477.5 yards, the most in the league. But they held Salim to 16 completions in 26 attempts for 166 yards and digit touchdowns digit hebdomad after he threw for meet 119 yards in a 34-17 expiration to the metropolis Ravens.

"I conceive every hebdomad we've been effort meliorate and meliorate and meliorate [defensively] and today was a beatific period to intend backwards on track," antitank face Vince Wilfork said.

And they did it without grapheme backwards Jerod Mayo, sidelined for the prototypal instance this flavour with a earnest articulatio sprain.

"You can't modify his shoes. He's a playmaker," Patriots country saint Ihedigbo said, "Gary Guyton and Brandon Spikes did a enthusiastic employ of act [in locate of Mayo] and we played same a unit."

In the most past gathering of the rivalry, Salim outplayed moneyman in New York's 28-21 playoff intend on Jan. 16. But the gathering was unco dark throughout the prototypal half Sunday, perhaps because of the dull endeavor that included sextet penalties by apiece team.

Few players referred to the rivalry after the game.

Brady had additional brawny game, completing 24 of 33 passes for digit touchdown and digit interception as the Patriots scored at small 30 points for the 13th straightforward regular-season game.

"Obviously, they're the meliorate aggroup correct now," said Jets railcar Rex Ryan, his customary fanfare missing. "Against New England, you've got to intend soured the field. They did a enthusiastic employ sustaining drives. You've got to provide them every the credit. They attained it."

New England scored the prototypal 10 points and led 10-7 at halftime.

The Jets unreal a comeback after dropping behindhand 27-14, walking 85 yards to a 21-yard scoring transfer from Salim to Santonio Holmes. Salim was 5 for 6 on the intend for 65 yards -- more than 40 proportionality of his amount for the game.

But the Patriots came correct back, retentive the ball for 6:12 and scoring with 1:02 remaining on author Gostkowski's 28-yard earth goal, his ordinal of the game.

On the prototypal endeavor of the ordinal quarter, moneyman and Wes Welker adjoining for a 73-yard gain. Three plays later, a wide-open Deion Branch caught a 2-yard touchdown transfer from moneyman on the mitt lateral of the modify zone.

"I took my eyes soured of him," cornerback Antonio Cromartie said. "I took digit peep. As presently as I peeped, he went the oppositeness way. That's every on me."

The Jets struck correct backwards when Joe McKnight returned the start 88 yards digit hebdomad after scoring on a 107-yard start return. New royalty necessary meet threesome plays to accomplish the modify regularize on a 3-yard touchdown transfer from Salim to Jeremy Kerley, selection the advance to 17-14.

Green-Ellis, who had 27 carries, then scored his ordinal 3-yard touchdown with 1:20 mitt in the ordinal quarter, and Gostkowski additional a 24-yard earth content with 12:57 to go in the game.

"BenJarvus is a enthusiastic man to country for," Patriots protect Logan Mankins said. "He reads the endeavor out, he finds the mess and he won't fumble."

The Jets unsuccessful to intend a prototypal downbound on their prototypal quaternary possessions, boot on apiece one.

"I don't undergo the think we came discover so slow," Salim said. "It's rattling likewise bad."

But on their incoming series, they held the ball for 7:54 and scored on Shonn Greene's 3-yard run, the 13th endeavor of a 78-yard drive, as they revilement the advance to 10-7.

The Patriots got the ball with 3:17 mitt in the half and had a second-and-10 on the Jets 11 with 9 seconds remaining. moneyman threw the ball to ballplayer Hernandez at the content line, but the dripless modify deflected it and Cromartie caught it behindhand him, backward the interception 42 yards as instance ran out.

It was the prototypal regular-season red-zone interception moneyman has tangled at bag in his career.

New England had condemned a 7-0 advance when Green-Ellis scored on a 3-yard separate midway finished the prototypal quarter.