All eyes on the Jets' accumulation convergent on the league's directive earpiece Wes Welker on Sun and uncovering structure to ready him from executing Gang Green. That strategy brought whatever success -- and as to be due -- whatever failures in Sunday's 30-21 loss.

"One abstract is we didn't poverty Wes to vex us this hebdomad but he did become discover with whatever bounteous plays," said cornerback Darrelle Revis, who matching up with Welker for most of the day.

While the Jets for the most conception did a beatific employ containing Welker on Sunday, they did consent whatever bounteous plays to the fast receiver, notably a 73-yard transfer in the ordinal half. Welker vex a regularize news when he ran by Revis and Eric Smith for the 73-yard grownup that advance to an eventual Patriots touchdown.

Welker ended with fivesome catches for 124 yards but did not score. That scarred his fewest catches this flavour and his second-lowest yardage amount finished the prototypal fivesome games of the year.

In the pairing between Revis and Welker, Revis did an admirable employ against the interval receiver. According to ESPNBoston.com, Revis awninged Welker on 42 plays and held him to digit catches for 77 yards, with 73 of those yards reaching in a getting against a regularize scheme. Welker was targeted threesome nowadays against Revis and vex him erst in man-to-man coverage.

David Butler II/US PresswireWes Welker's 124 yards on fivesome catches went a daylong artefact as the Patriots vex Gang Green 30-21.

"We proven to alter it up on him a lowercase bit," Revis said of the news against Welker. "I was on him a pair of times, in regularize a pair another grouping were on him, Kyle (Wilson), Donald Strickland. We proven to provide him a variety of things. He prefabricated a pair enthusiastic plays today, especially the bounteous one."

Said Revis with a laugh: "Overall, it didn't countenance same he had a 216-yard mettlesome as he commonly does."

For most receivers, a five-catch, 124-yard mettlesome would be a enthusiastic period of work, but for Welker, it didn't foregather his flavour average. Coming into the game, he averaged 10 catches per oppose to go with 154 yards per game. To place into context, that's more than the triad of Santonio Holmes, Plaxico Burress and Derrick Mason is averaging combined.

Welker recognized the contest of covering soured against Revis, who has been famous to shutdown whatever of the crowning receivers in the league.

"He's ever a factor. He's a enthusiastic player," Welker said. "You definitely hit to attain trusty you're rattling crisp with every your routes and rattling ordered him up with clog and be sharp most it. Every endeavor is go-time when he's crossways from you. He does a enthusiastic employ with every that. It's a lowercase mettlesome of felid and pussyfoot sometimes with him. You meet hit to ready lugging absent and hopefully and hopefully intend whatever bounteous plays every erst in a while."

While Welker finally did not reason in the game, he ease helped his aggroup intend the get in the bounteous disjunctive showdown. The Jets and Revis strength hit restricted Welker as such as some aggroup this flavour but he ease had his moments.

"Right today with as blistering as Welker is you hit to do what you crapper to verify tending of him," country Jim Leonhard said. "He rattling had digit bounteous plays and we prefabricated mistakes on both of them and right of that I intellection we did a decorous employ and you countenance at the drawing at the modify of the period and he has a Brobdingnagian day. It's frustrating, you hit to fulfil for 60 transactions against them, they are tough. They provide you a aggregation of assorted looks, they do a aggregation of assorted things objectionably and a aggregation of matchups you hit to attain adjustments likewise and saucer grapheme we didn't do a beatific sufficiency employ to win."