I thought the game would be a slog and it turned out to be a slog, though I wasn't particularly happy with any aspect of the game. On offense, any attempt to establish a run game was conceded early on, and there were drops and bad passes all over the place. Even on the touchdown passes, Vereen and Amendola bailed Brady out. Not that Brady had a bad game (and it would have been better if not for drops by Edelman and Gronk) but he wasn't particularly good either, and the inability to convert on 3rd and short is still killing this team.
On defense, I'm sure others will have much more vulgar critiques but the run defense was bad and the passing defense against arguably the league's worst quarterback was surprisingly bad. Jamie Collins is a safety in a linebacker's body and shouldn't be on the field except on passing downs (and even then it feels like he reacts to the snap a second later than everyone else) and Logan Ryan is awful and shouldn't be playing at all (seriously, you have Revis, Browner, Dennard, and Arrington - why is Ryan out there?). Ninkovich had a great game, Chandler Jones was up and down, and Wilfork and Hightower were keys. But you can't play a 4-2-5 and expect to survive, though I do think the Jets rushing attack with Ivory especially is underrated. They did get hit with a few bad penalties (especially Browner), but that's par for the course in today's NFL.
Amendola might be this year's Blount, who was lost in the early going but found a niche on kickoff returns and ultimately contributed in the second half and playoffs. The fan narrative about Amendola is that Brady doesn't trust him but that huge hug he gave him about the touchdown and the Belichick unabashed praise of him in the press conference strikes me differently.
Dobson must really suck. Last year's draft of Dobson, Collins, Harmon, Boyce et al looks pretty abysmal as of right now.
The good news is the long week before the next game lets them heal up. They'll have Connolly and Stork back, and Hightower should be fully healed.