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What we learned in Patriots-Jets: Pats deliver in response Mayo’s challenge originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
FOXBORO — Consider the challenge met.
The Patriots were seven-point underdogs at home, going against a Jets team with star-level talent all over the field that was even more desperate than New England was for a victory.
Early in the second quarter, the Patriots lost starting quarterback Drake Maye, who also happens to look like their best player three games into his tenure as starter.
And yet, after being called “soft” by head coach Jerod Mayo a week earlier, the Patriots toughened up in critical moments, converting two third-and-longs and a fourth-and-inches on the goal line to emerge with a come-from-behind, 25-22 win.
“When your leader says something about you like that, you never want that to define you,” Hunter Henry said. “These guys, I think, responded well. I think we all responded well to what was said last week, and we were able to go out there and get a win.”
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Had they not responded — and there’s one position group we’ll examine below that, for the vast majority of the game, did not — then that would be cause for alarm. And perhaps cause for roster moves.
This is an assessment year for Mayo and personnel chief Eliot Wolf, after all, and if you lower your level after being called out rather than elevate it? Maybe that four-letter word that generated headlines all week was, in fact, apt.
Lucky for the Patriots, and for Mayo, the majority of them answered.
“I’m very proud of just the way the guys responded,” Mayo said Monday morning.
Let’s get to what we learned…
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Publish date : 2024-10-28 17:21:25
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