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Pats D forces 3 Turnovers, Four Sacks
Patriots Shut Down Jets, 20-6
Pats D forces 3 Turnovers, Four Sacks
Patriots Shut Down Jets, 20-6
Thursday September 11, 1986 at 8:06
Week 2, Game 2 at Giants Stadium
New England Patriots 20, New York Jets 6
Head Coaches: Raymond Berry, Joe Walton
QBs: Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien
Odds: New York Jets favored by 1½
83°, overcast, 13 mph wind; attendance 72,422 (plus 4,469 no-shows); 3 hours, 8 minutes
Patriots improve to 2-0; Jets drop to 1-1
The Patriots went on the road and completely shut down the Jets, winning their second game of the season by the score of 20-6. Andre Tippett, Don Blackmon, Dennis Owens and Mike Ruth all sacked Ken O'Brien once each, and Ronnie Lippett and Roland James both had an interception off the Jet quarterback. Gang Green was unable to cover Stanley Morgan, who finished with eight receptions for 104 yards. The Patriots never gave the Jets a chance, controlling the ball for ten more minutes than their impotent opponent, 35:01 to 24:59.
Through their first two games the Patriots had allowed just nine points, and zero touchdowns - with a plus 18:06 advanatge in time of possession.
This was the first time time that Tony Eason and Ken O'Brien met as starting quarterbacks. The two had been part of the great QB class of 1983 that also included first round picks on hall of famers John Elway, Jim Kelly and Dan Marino. The Jets and Patriots were both 11-5 playoff teams the previous season, meeting for a third time in the playoffs. The Pats won that wild card game 26-14, with Jet turnovers leading to 17 points.
PATRIOTS DEFEAT JETS EASILY, 20-6 (Published 1986)
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Freeman McNeil, without whom the Jets have been a losing team over the years, was sidelined tonight for four to six weeks, the team said. The star runner suffered a dislocated right elbow and was hospitalized while his teammates went on to take a 20-6 battering from the New England Patriots at Giants Stadium.
It will be a game that could trouble the Jets the rest of the season: They will play their key division rival only once more this campaign, and that will be before McNeil is likely to return. With McNeil, the Jets' first pick of the 1981 draft, in the lineup, the team has a 34-21-1 record. Without him, they are 8-10.
Few players perform up to their potential against the hard-driving Patriot defense. McNeil gained only 23 yards on 8 carries. His last was his longest, for 7 yards in the second quarter. But he was never fully balanced, and as he ran low he attempted to keep himself erect by bracing himself with one hand. Finally, he fell on the elbow and was hit by Garin Veris and Steve Nelson.
Yardage came hard for all the Jets tonight. The Patriots have not permitted a touchdown in winning their first two games. The Jets, who are now 1-1, managed only a pair of field goals from Pat Leahy.
It was a long night that started full of promise and 72,422 fans turned out. But little worked for the Jets, not even a pair of trick plays.
Jet runners gained only 70 yards on 25 carries. Ken O'Brien's 16 completions in 30 attempts generated only 180 yards and he was intercepted twice. He was sacked once in the first half and three more times in the second half as the game got out of hand.
Craig James (63 yards on 21 carries) and Collins (18 for 56), the Patriots' top runners, complemented Tony Eason's accurate passing game. Eason completed 14 of 22 passes for 148 yards and a touchdown, and Stanley Morgan embarrassed the Jets' defenders by collecting eight receptions for 104 yards.
There was more than enough embarrassment to go around for the Jets. In addition to botching a pair of trick plays, they were fooled by a touchdown pass from one Patriot running back to another, and they failed to cover New England's receivers.
Indeed, the Jets employed three different left cornerbacks at that troubled position, a side of the field that came alive with the sound of Eason's passes being completed to his receivers.
The Patriots opened the scoring when Eason tossed a 6-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Collins in the first quarter.
On the Jets' next drive, McNeil faked a sweep after taking a handoff from O'Brien. McNeil was to toss the ball back to O'Brien. Instead, it was badly overthrown and two plays later O'Brien was intercepted.
The Jets did get field goals from Leahy of 33 and 47 yards in the second quarter, giving him a club-record 14 straight going back to last season.
But early in the third period, on fourth and 1 from the Jets' 10, the Jets played the Patriots to run. Steve Grogan, the backup quarterback who calls the plays, had something else in mind. Six Jets' defenders charged. Instead, Eason pitched to James, who tossed an easy pass to Collins, all alone at the goal line, for a 10-yard score. Later in the period, Tony Franklin booted a 45-yard field goal.
Midway through the last quarter, trailing by 17-6, the Jets again tried something different. Near midfield, on a fourth-down punting situation, the ball was snapped to Tony Paige instead of Dave Jennings. But no sooner did Paige cradle the ball than he was tackled by Ed Williams, who came in over a missed block. On the next drive, Franklin kicked a 42-yard field goal.
For the first time in regular-season play, the new instant-replay offficial overruled a call on the field. It happened in the third quarter, when Al Toon snared an O'Brien pass but was ruled out of bounds by an official on the field. After the replay was viewed, the Jets were credited with a completion, but they were still short of a first down.
After this game the media predicted the Jete to stumble due to the injury to McNeil, who had been named to three of the last four pro bowls and totaled 1,758 yards from scrimmage in 1985. Instead the Jets reeled off nine consecutive wins, and had the NFL's best record in mid-November at 10-1. After that they imploded, losing five in a row to barely squeak into the playoffs as a wild card on a tie breaker. After defeating KC, they were beating Cleveland 20-10 and appeared to have forced the Browns into a 3rd and 26 - but Mark Gastineau was flagged for spearing Bernie Kosar, giving the Browns life. Cleveland came back to win 23-20 in double overtime to end the Jets season. A week later the Browns lost to Denver when John Elway orchestrated the famous 98-yard "The Drive" to tie the game. The Broncos won in overtime - and to Cleveland fans horror, a year later they watched their Browns again lose in heartbreaking fashion to Denver, this time in the game referred to as The Fumble.
1986 Week 2 New England Patriots at New York Jets
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New England Patriots 20 at New York Jets 6 on September 11th, 1986 - Full team and player stats and box score
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