Today In Patriots History Oct 29, 1978: Pats demolish Jets 55-21; Grogan throws 4 TDs

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 1978: Pats bomb Jets, 55-21
Grogan throws 4 TD, compiles perfect passer rating
Pats win 6th straight, end Jet 4-game win streak​

Sunday October 29, 1978 at 1:00
Week 9, Game 9 at Schaefer Stadium
New England Patriots 55, New York Jets 21
Head Coaches: Chuck Fairbanks, Walt Michaels
QBs: Steve Grogan, Tom owen; Matt Robinson, Pat Ryan
Odds: New England favored by 9
TV: NBC; **** Enberg, Merlin Olsen
Patriots improve to 7-2, Jets drop to 5-4


The Patriots pulled off a rare single-game trifecta in this beatdown of Gang Green. For the first time in franchise history, the Pats had a quarterback throw four touchdown passes; finish with a perfect passer rating; and three other players finished with two touchdowns. Harold Jackson, Horace Ivory and backup RB James McAlister each had two touchdowns, while Steve Grogan went 15-19 for 281 yards, four TDs, no turnovers, and a 158.3 passer rating.

(That feat was repeated once again in 2010, when the Patriots defeated Detroit 45-24. That was a day where Tom Brady tied a franchise record by going without an interception for the sixth straight game and had his second career perfect passer rating. Wes Welker, Deion Branch and BenJarvus Green-Ellis each had two touchdowns, and Brady had four touchdowns along with the perfect rating.)



Grogan, Patriots Bombard Jets, 55-21

Quarterback Steve Grogan of the New England Patriots said it was "like rolling dice and it kept coming up a seven for us." Grogan's hot hand produced 15 pass completions in 19 first-half attempts for 281 yards and four touchdowns in a 55-21 breeze past the New York Jets yesterday.​

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It was the Patriots' sixth straight victory and raised their record to 7-2 as leaders in the AFC East.​

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The Patriots shocked the Jets by scoring 21 points in the first quarter and went on to roll up 529 yards of total offense. They scored touchdowns on each of their first seven possessions and threw only two passes in the second half.​

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Harold Jackson caught five passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns, and tight end Russ Francis also caught a scoring pass.​

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The Jets tried to run the ball on the Patriots, who came into the game with the No. 1 rushing defense inthe American Football Conference. New York gained only 104 yards rushing, and when quarterback Matt Robinson went to the pass he hit only eight of 20 attempts for 72 yards.​

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The Jets managed only 276 yards of total offense. New England kept the ball away from them by running off 64 plays to the Jet's 61. The Jets are 5-4, their winning streak ended at four games.​

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The Patriots marched 65 yards with the opening kickoff, then went 65, 42, 76, 41 and 86 yards for touchdowns in the first half. They staged another long drive for a touchdown the only time they had possession in the third quarter.​

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Grogan set the tempo on the first play of the game. He faked a pass into the right flat, then tossed a screen shot to Sam Cunningham, who went 30 yards for a first down at the New York 35.​

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The Patriots then turned it into a rout. The Jets were not only embarrassed, but physically hurt, five players were sidelined with injuries.​

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New York also lost offensive lineman Darrell Austin, who was ejected with New England tight end and special teams player Don Hasselbeck for a slugfest in the second period, after New England's fourth touchdown.​

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Grogan, given outstanding protection by his blocking strikes of 11 and 28 yards to Harold Jackson, 30 yards to Stanley Morgan and 11 yards to Russ Francis. The quarterback was 15-19 with two of those incompletions dropped by his receivers. Grogan also set up Horace Ivory for two scoring runs in the second period as he picked apart the Jets' defense with his aerial blitz.​

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The Patriots mercifully called off the horses in the second half. Grogan engineered an 88-yard scoring drive without throwing a pass in the third period and then gave way to backup quarterback Tom Owen in the fourth quarter.​

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At that point New England led 48-7.​

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Owen, a five-year pro, made his first, regular-season appearance since Oct. 18, 1976, while Grogan's iron-man strength was broken. Grogan had gone the distance in 30 consecutive games.​

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When he returned to the office last Sunday after being away on vacation for a year, New England quarterback Steve Grogan was amazed to find how little things really had changed.

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Nobody has been burned more often by Grogan than the Jets. . . . .​

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The Best of Grogan includes these memorable performances:​

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--Grogan rushes for a career-high 103 yards, including a 41-yard run, as the Patriots rout the Jets, 41-7, on Oct. 18, 1976.​

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--Grogan completes 15 of 19 passes as the Patriots overwhelm the Jets, 55-21, on Oct. 29, 1978.​

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--It gets worse the following season; Grogan passes for five touchdowns and 315 yards as the Patriots humiliate the Jets, 56-3, on Sept. 9, 1979.​

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--On Oct. 11, 1981, the Jets manage to hold on and beat the Patriots, 28-24, but only after Grogan comes off the bench as a third-quarter replacement for Matt Cavanaugh and passes for 330 yards.​

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--In a 23-13 Patriots win over the Jets on Sept. 18, 1983, Grogan’s career-high completion percentage of 81.8 on 9-of-11 passing is overlooked because of Tony Collins’ 212 yards rushing.​

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 2018: Pats 25, Bills 6​

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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Devin McCourty returned an interception 84 yards for a touchdown, and the New England Patriots’ defense smothered the Buffalo Bills’ anemic offense in a 25-6 […]

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Devin McCourty returned an interception 84 yards for a touchdown, and the New England Patriots’ defense smothered the Buffalo Bills’ anemic offense in a 25-6 win on Monday night.​

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James White scored on a 1-yard run, and the Patriots relied more on Stephen Gostkowski’s leg than on Tom Brady’s arm for their fifth straight win, which improved their AFC East-leading record to 6-2. Brady finished 29 of 45 for 324 yards, but was held without a touchdown pass for the first time this season.​

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Gostkowski hit four of five field-goal attempts, including two from 25 yards after New England drives stalled inside Buffalo’s 10.​

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McCourty sealed the win with 5:54 remaining by intercepting Derek Anderson’s pass over the middle intended for LeSean McCoy and taking it to the end zone.​

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Two plays before the pick, Bills tight end Jason Croom’s diving one-handed touchdown catch was negated following a video review. Replays clearly showed Croom never had possession in attempting to make the 25-yard catch, which would have made it a one-score game.​

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Brady finished 29 of 45 for 324 yards, but was held without a touchdown pass for the first time this season.​

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Brady continued his string of career-long dominance over the Bills by improving to 29-3, extending the NFL record for most wins by a quarterback against one opponent.​

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The Patriots beat Buffalo for the seventh straight time and improved to 32-5 in their last 37 meetings under coach Bill Belichick.​

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 2017: Pats 21, Chargers 13​

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Tom Brady passed for 333 yards and a touchdown, Stephen Gostkowski added four field goals to help the Patriots (6-2) hold on for the victory, their fourth straight.​

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The loss snapped a three-game win streak for the Chargers.​

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New England got its lone touchdown via a 2-yard toss from Brady to Rob Gronkowski in the second quarter. The Patriots went 1 for 4 in the red zone, but were able to cobble together the Gostkowki field goals and a safety. The defense, which gave up 30 or more points three times in their first four games, has given up just 51 points total over its last four. And it did it this time without linebacker Dont'a Hightower, who sat out Sunday's win and expected to miss the remainder of the season following shoulder surgery.​

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Los Angeles (3-5) got on the board first when Melvin Gordon found a seam on the outside and rumbled down the sideline for an 87-yard touchdown run . But the rest of the game was marked by Los Angeles' mistakes and inability to move the ball offensively.​

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The Chargers cut the Patriots' lead to 18-13 with 8:30 to play following a 24-yard touchdown pass from Philip Rivers to Travis Benjamin and failed 2-point conversion pass. They got the ball back a final time after New England added Gostkowski's fourth field goal. But Rivers' pass with 1 second remaining was intercepted at the goal line by Jonathan Jones.​

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Los Angeles' mistakes were highlighted in a wild way in the second quarter when Benjamin muffed a punt inside the Chargers 15, recovered it and retreated all the way to own goal line while trying to reverse field. He was corralled by a Patriots group that included Brandon King, Matt Slater and Jones, then finally wrapped up by King and tackled in the end zone for a safety.​

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Rivers had a similarly head-scratching play early in the third quarter when he rolled to the outside to escape the pass rush, but had the ball slip out of his hands for a fumble. He recovered, but the play resulted in a 20-yard loss and a sack credited to Kyle Van Noy.​

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 2015: Pats 36, Dolphins 7​

Patriots 36, Dolphins 7: Miami no match as New England marches to 7-0 start

Playing their second game in four days against a team coming off of two blowout wins, the Patriots showed why they're the best team in the NFL, earning a decisive 36-7 win over Miami. The Patriots im…

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The team didn’t play its best football on Thursday. The Patriots weren’t dazzling, but they were still dominant.

Playing their second game in four days against a team coming off of two blowout wins, the Patriots showed why they’re the best team in the NFL, earning a decisive 36-7 win over their division foes. The Patriots improved to 7-0 for the second time in franchise history.

If there was anyone who wasn’t affected by the Thursday night game, it was Tom Brady. The Patriots have now scored 30 or more points in six straight games as the captain of this ship was outstanding once again.

The 38-year-old finished 26-of-38 for 356 yards and four touchdowns. It was the 69th game in which Brady threw for more than 300 yards in his career, the third-most all-time. This was also his 24th game with four or more touchdown passes, also the third all-time.

Dion Lewis, back after missing last weekend’s game, caught six passes for 93 yards and a touchdown. Rob Gronkowski hauled in six receptions for 113 yards and a touchdown. Edelman grabbed two touchdown passes to go with 81 receiving yards.

Even more impressive was the defense. With the Dolphins coming off blowout wins over Tennessee (38-10) and Houston (44-26), Ryan Tannehill didn’t throw any touchdowns and was intercepted two times.​

Brady, Patriots rout Dolphins 36-7 to improve to 7-0

Brady threw for 356 yards and four touchdowns - two to Julian Edelman - and the Patriots beat the Miami Dolphins 36-7 on Thursday night to become the first of the NFL's five unbeaten teams to reach seven wins.

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It took the Patriots 4:48 to score the game’s first touchdown. Unlike last week, with a pass-heavy offense, the Pats used a balanced attack to open up the game with four run and four pass plays. LeGarrette Blount was having early success and in his return, Lewis picked up a big third-down conversion, taking a Brady pass for 16 yards. But the biggest play of them all belonged to Gronkowski.

The tight end scored a 47-yard touchdown with 10:21 left in the first. Gronkowski caught a Brady pass on the left side of the field, bounced off one defender and got a great block from Brandon LaFell (on Michael Thomas) as he sprinted untouched into the end zone to give the Patriots a 7-0 lead on the game-opening drive.

The Patriots took a 9-0 lead in the most unusual of circumstances with 14:05 left in the first half. After getting pinned at the 9-yard line by Ryan Allen, things got worse for the Dolphins. On third down, Mike Pouncey snapped the ball when Ryan Tannehill wasn’t ready. The ball rolled into the end zone and out the back, as the quarterback tired to corall it, for a safety.


The defense stepped up again with 14:31 left in the game. This time Duron Harmon came up with an impressive interception, diving to hand Tannehill his second pick of the night. The safety returned the turnover 30 yards to give the Patriots the ball at the Miami 15. Three plays later, Brady had his third touchdown pass of the night, a 10-yard strike to Edelman to make it 29-7.

On the Pats' next drive, Brady hit Edelman in the end zone again. The 16-yard touchdown marked Edelman’s sixth of the season, which tied a career-high, and gave the Patriots a 36-7 lead.​

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 1989: Pats 23, Colts 20 in OT​

Raise your hand if you remember Greg Davis or Eric Sievers.


The kicker missed two of his five field goal attempts, but kicked the game-winner in overtime. Davis connected from 47 yards in the first quarter, 48 yards in the fourth quarter, and then hit a 51-yard field goal in overtime for the win.

The Pats dominated statistically in a game with eight lead changes to upset the Colts, who were favored by 6½. Steve Grogan went 28-46 for 355 yards, and TE Eric Sievers had seven catches for 113 yards - two yards short of his career high - to lead the New England offense.

The Patriots held a 30-19 advantage in first downs, outgained Indy in total yards 448-357, and controlled the ball for 16 more minutes, 43:05 to 26:52.

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 1961: Boston Patriots 18, Dallas Texans 17​

Since replacing Lou Saban with Mike Holvak three weeks prior, the Patriots remain undefeated under the helm of the former BC coach.


The Pats got on the scoreboard first when Don Webb returned a fumble 40 yards for a first quarter touchdown. But Hank Stram's team controlled the ballgame after that, leading 17-7 in the fourth quarter., on a contested ball where Chris Buford managed to catch a pass between safeties Fred Bruney and Ron Hall for 24-yard touchdown.

The Patriots got the ball back with 4:44 left to play. Sending play calls in by alternating quarterbacks, the Pats gained 13 yards on a Babe Parilli pass to end Joe Johnson, 45 yards on a Butch Songin pass to RB Ron Burton, and 16 yards on a reverse to flanker Jim Colclough. On the next play Songin hit Johnson for a four-yard touchdown pass - and with a small bit of trickery, holder Babe Parilli ran it in for a two-point conversion to make the score 17-15.


Defensive stops by Rommie Loudd and **** Klein forced a three-and-out, and the Pats took over on their own 38 with 1:36 left to play. Parilli got the drive going with a 9-yard pass to Johnson, and Songin hit Gino Cappelletti for a gain of 18. On the next play Parilli went right back to Gino for a completion of 11 yards. Then on the last play of the game, Mr. Patriot kicked a 24-yard field goal to complete the comeback victory.

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DALLAS, Oct. 29 (AP) -- Gino Cappelletti kicked a 24-yard field goal as the final gun sounded today to give the Boston Patriots an 18-17 victory over Dallas in the American Football League.​

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Today in Patriots History
October 29, 1978: Pats bomb Jets, 55-21
Grogan throws 4 TD, compiles perfect passer rating
Pats win 6th straight, end Jet 4-game win streak​

Sunday October 29, 1978 at 1:00
Week 9, Game 9 at Schaefer Stadium
New England Patriots 55, New York Jets 21
Head Coaches: Chuck Fairbanks, Walt Michaels
QBs: Steve Grogan, Tom owen; Matt Robinson, Pat Ryan
Odds: New England favored by 9
TV: NBC; **** Enberg, Merlin Olsen
Patriots improve to 7-2, Jets drop to 5-4


The Patriots pulled off a rare single-game trifecta in this beatdown of Gang Green. For the first time in franchise history, the Pats had a quarterback throw four touchdown passes; finish with a perfect passer rating; and three other players finished with two touchdowns. Harold Jackson, Horace Ivory and backup RB James McAlister each had two touchdowns, while Steve Grogan went 15-19 for 281 yards, four TDs, no turnovers, and a 158.3 passer rating.

(That feat was repeated once again in 2010, when the Patriots defeated Detroit 45-24. That was a day where Tom Brady tied a franchise record by going without an interception for the sixth straight game and had his second career perfect passer rating. Wes Welker, Deion Branch and BenJarvus Green-Ellis each had two touchdowns, and Brady had four touchdowns along with the perfect rating.)



Grogan, Patriots Bombard Jets, 55-21

Quarterback Steve Grogan of the New England Patriots said it was "like rolling dice and it kept coming up a seven for us." Grogan's hot hand produced 15 pass completions in 19 first-half attempts for 281 yards and four touchdowns in a 55-21 breeze past the New York Jets yesterday.​

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It was the Patriots' sixth straight victory and raised their record to 7-2 as leaders in the AFC East.​

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The Patriots shocked the Jets by scoring 21 points in the first quarter and went on to roll up 529 yards of total offense. They scored touchdowns on each of their first seven possessions and threw only two passes in the second half.​

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Harold Jackson caught five passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns, and tight end Russ Francis also caught a scoring pass.​

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The Jets tried to run the ball on the Patriots, who came into the game with the No. 1 rushing defense inthe American Football Conference. New York gained only 104 yards rushing, and when quarterback Matt Robinson went to the pass he hit only eight of 20 attempts for 72 yards.​

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The Jets managed only 276 yards of total offense. New England kept the ball away from them by running off 64 plays to the Jet's 61. The Jets are 5-4, their winning streak ended at four games.​

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The Patriots marched 65 yards with the opening kickoff, then went 65, 42, 76, 41 and 86 yards for touchdowns in the first half. They staged another long drive for a touchdown the only time they had possession in the third quarter.​

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Grogan set the tempo on the first play of the game. He faked a pass into the right flat, then tossed a screen shot to Sam Cunningham, who went 30 yards for a first down at the New York 35.​

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The Patriots then turned it into a rout. The Jets were not only embarrassed, but physically hurt, five players were sidelined with injuries.​

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New York also lost offensive lineman Darrell Austin, who was ejected with New England tight end and special teams player Don Hasselbeck for a slugfest in the second period, after New England's fourth touchdown.​

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Grogan, given outstanding protection by his blocking strikes of 11 and 28 yards to Harold Jackson, 30 yards to Stanley Morgan and 11 yards to Russ Francis. The quarterback was 15-19 with two of those incompletions dropped by his receivers. Grogan also set up Horace Ivory for two scoring runs in the second period as he picked apart the Jets' defense with his aerial blitz.​

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The Patriots mercifully called off the horses in the second half. Grogan engineered an 88-yard scoring drive without throwing a pass in the third period and then gave way to backup quarterback Tom Owen in the fourth quarter.​

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At that point New England led 48-7.​

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Owen, a five-year pro, made his first, regular-season appearance since Oct. 18, 1976, while Grogan's iron-man strength was broken. Grogan had gone the distance in 30 consecutive games.​

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When he returned to the office last Sunday after being away on vacation for a year, New England quarterback Steve Grogan was amazed to find how little things really had changed.

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Nobody has been burned more often by Grogan than the Jets. . . . .​

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The Best of Grogan includes these memorable performances:​

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--Grogan rushes for a career-high 103 yards, including a 41-yard run, as the Patriots rout the Jets, 41-7, on Oct. 18, 1976.​

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--Grogan completes 15 of 19 passes as the Patriots overwhelm the Jets, 55-21, on Oct. 29, 1978.​

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--It gets worse the following season; Grogan passes for five touchdowns and 315 yards as the Patriots humiliate the Jets, 56-3, on Sept. 9, 1979.​

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--On Oct. 11, 1981, the Jets manage to hold on and beat the Patriots, 28-24, but only after Grogan comes off the bench as a third-quarter replacement for Matt Cavanaugh and passes for 330 yards.​

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--In a 23-13 Patriots win over the Jets on Sept. 18, 1983, Grogan’s career-high completion percentage of 81.8 on 9-of-11 passing is overlooked because of Tony Collins’ 212 yards rushing.​

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think i remember this correctly... Grogan threw for 4 or more touchdowns three times in his career... 4, 5, & 4... all against the Jete

 

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think i remember this correctly... Grogan threw for 4 or more touchdowns three times in his career... 4, 5, & 4... all against the Jete

Rk Year Date G# Week Age Tm Opp Result GS Cmp Att Cmp% Yds TD ? Int Rate Sk Yds Y/A AY/A Att Yds Y/A TD Rec Yds Y/R TD TD Pts Fmb FL FF FR Yds TD 1 1979 1979-09-09 2 2 26.047 NWE NYJ W 56-3 * 13 18 72.22 315 5 0 153.9 2 10 17.50 23.06 2 38 19.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1978 1978-10-29 9 9 25.097 NWE NYJ W 55-21 * 15 19 78.95 281 4 0 158.3 0 0 14.79 19.00 3 32 10.67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1987 1987-12-13 13 14 34.142 NWE NYJ W 42-20 * 11 18 61.11 180 4 0 134.3 1 9 10.00 14.44 2 7 3.50 1 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0