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October 20, 1985: Pats stop Jet 5-game win streak
Grogan throws 47-yard bomb to Stanley Morgan, then
Fakes out Jets with Naked Bootleg for game-winning TD
October 20, 1985: Pats stop Jet 5-game win streak
Grogan throws 47-yard bomb to Stanley Morgan, then
Fakes out Jets with Naked Bootleg for game-winning TD
Sunday October 20, 1985 at 4:00
Week 7, Game 7 at Sullivan Stadium
New England Patriots 20, New York Jets 13
Head Coaches: Raymond Berry, Joe Walton
QBs: Steve Grogan, Ken O'Brien
Odds: New York favored by 2½
TV: NBC; Marv Albert, Bob Griese
Patriots improve to 4-3, Jets drop to 5-2
A low scoring game changed with back-to-back-to-back fourth quarter touchdowns. The Patriots took the lead on a 36-yard touchdown pass from Steve Grogan to Irving Fryar. The Jete responded with a TD that was set up by a 49-yard bomb from Ken O'Brien to Wesley Walker (6 catches, 150 yards). But the Pats came right back on a five-play, 65-yard drive. Grogan's 47-yard pass to Stanley Morgan gave the Pats a first down on the six, and two plays later Grogan fooled the entire Jets defense with a bootleg to the left for the winning points.
The Jets got the ball back with 3:17 left and all three timeouts. Andre Tippett sacked O'Brien twice, but the QB completed a 12-yard pass on 4th-and-11. On third down Tippett hit O'Brien while he was attempting to pass, causing an incompletion. Then on fourth down Garin Veris sacked O'Brien, and the Pats were able to run the clock out.
The Patriots sacked O'Brien five times on the day (three by Tippett), Veris recoverd a fumble forced by Roland James, Ronnie Lippett's fumble recovery after a Fred Marion hit stopped another Jet drive, and Raymond Clayborn's end zone interception prevented a first half Jet touchdown.
Quarterback Steve Grogan wanted complete deception on his bootleg... - UPI Archives
Quarterback Steve Grogan wanted complete deception on his bootleg Sunday, so he decided to fake out his own team too....
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Quarterback Steve Grogan wanted complete deception on his bootleg Sunday, so he decided to fake out his own team too.
The Patriots veteran quarerback scored on a 3-yard run with 3:27 remaining to give New England a 20-13 victory which snapped the New York Jets' five-game winning streak.
Grogan had called a handoff to Tony Collins in the huddle, but faked the ball to the running back and then sprinted untouched into the left corner of the end zone.
'He didn't call it in the huddle, he just went out and did it,' center Pete Brock said. 'Only Collins and (receiver Stanley) Morgan knew about it.'
Grogan, an 11-year veteran playing in place of starter Tony Eason who separated his shoulder last week, calls all his own plays.
'Sometimes you have to gamble and take chances,' Grogan said. 'This time it worked.'
With the score tied 13-13, Grogan put New England on the Jets' 6-yard line with a 47-yard pass to Stanley Morgan. After Craig James gained three yards on a run, Grogan made his move.
Grogan improved to 11-3 against the Jets as a starter.
'I haven't seen a tougher quarterback in my life. I just haven't,' Jets nose tackle Joe Klecko said.
Grogan's keeper was New England's first rushing touchdown since the season-opener and improved the Patriots to 4-3. The Jets dropped into a tie with the Miami Dolphins for first place in the AFC East at 5-2.
JETS' STREAK ENDS AT 5 (Published 1985)
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The New England Patriots, a team starting a quarterback who had seemed as if his better playing days were behind him, scored a 20-13 upset. Last season here, the Patriots pushed the Jets, who came into that game with a 6-2 record, on a downward spiral.
Steve Grogan, the 32-year-old quarterback whose surgically-repaired knee made him a reserve, scored the winning touchdown with fewer than 4 minutes remaining to break a 13-all tie. Playing because Tony Eason had a sprained shoulder, Grogan dashed 3 yards to his left on a bootleg after faking a handoff to the right that drew all the Jets to that side of the field. It was the first rushing touchdown by the Patriots since the season's opener.
The Patriots had come this far after Grogan and Stanley Morgan collaborated on a 47-yard pass play.
Grogan TD Fakes Out Patriots Too
Steve Grogan wanted complete deception on his bootleg Sunday, so he decided to fake out his own team too.
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Grogan, starting for the first time since Sept. 16, 1984, completed only 11 of 32 passes for 171 yards but had several long passes dropped.
His keeper was New England’s first rushing touchdown since the season opener and boosted the Patriots to 4-3. The Jets dropped into a tie with the Miami Dolphins for first place in the AFC East at 5-2.
GROGAN AGAIN IN KEY ROLE (Published 1985)
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Steve Grogan, who two weeks ago was a forgotten athlete, came back to beat the Jets once more today, and it was his incisive play-calling as much as his passing and running that won the game for the New England Patriots.
Starting his first game in more than a year, the 32-year-old quarterback made the decisions that gave the Patriots the unexpected victory, and that included calling his own play, the bootleg, for the winning touchdown. That play, a 3-yard run, came with 3 minutes 27 seconds left, and it did in the Jets.
It was the 30th rushing touchdown for Grogan, a running quarterback in the 1970's but now not so mobile after a decade of taking hits and healing injuries.
''I've run that play dozens of times,'' he said. ''I used to be able to run the ball in from 10 yards out. But 3 yards is about my maximum range now.'
The proper defensive response to a bootleg is to have one player on the goal-line check out the quarterback to make sure he does not have the ball. That was Marty Lyons's job and he missed it. Lyons said later, referring first to Tony Collins and then Grogan: ''The running back made a great fake. He stood there for a long time, and I went in too soon. I didn't check the quarterback.''
Grogan chose to stick with the running game that had done little, and he got it going in the fourth quarter. That opened the Jet defense so he was able to make two vital pass plays.
He beat the blitz on the first one when he floated a pass out to Irving Fryar that went for a 36-yard touchdown. Fryar had run from the defender, the rookie defensive back Donnie Elder, who had no help because the others were blitzing.
Grogan picked up the hint of a blitz, changed the play and got a touchdown, only the 13th for the Patriots in seven games this season.
The second big pass, also against a blitz, went to Stanley Morgan down the middle for 47 yards to the Jet 6-yard line, and that set up the winning score.
It was an unlikely call on first down and because Morgan was the designated receiver. Morgan, once a hero here, has fallen into disfavor and up to that moment he had had another unfortunate game marred by dropped passes. But the quarterback had not given up on his teammate, whose timing he knows so well, and Morgan caught the ball behind Russell Carter.
Then came the bootleg that fooled every Jet, and all but two Patriots. Grogan called the play in the huddle, a run by Collins, but the quarterback told only Morgan that he would keep the ball and try for the touchdown. He needed some semblance of a block from the wide receiver, should a cornerback come up to try to stop Grogan, a circumstance that did not come about.
Why was Grogan running the show rather than the coaches? After all, quarterbacks no longer call plays in the N.F.L.
Tony Eason, the regular quarterback, was out with a separated shoulder, and Grogan had used guile to convince Raymond Berry, the coach, that he should call the plays. He had gone 18 games without starting or even playing until he replaced Eason last Sunday, and he told Berry he felt so far removed from the offense that he had better run his show rather than take the calls from Les Steckel, the assistant coach.
2:15:40 Full Game
1985 Week 7 - N.Y. Jets at New England
1985 Week 7 - N.Y. Jets at New England
NFL Media Game Summary, with halftime stats, full play-by-play, and complete stats
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New York Jets at New England Patriots - October 20th, 1985 | Pro-Football-Reference.com
New York Jets 13 at New England Patriots 20 on October 20th, 1985 - Full team and player stats and box score
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