Which player on IR could have made a difference

[RhodyPatriot]

Patriots had plenty of talent on the field to win the game.
Jets were flawless in all 3 phases.
Patriots stunk in all 3 phases.
Jets beat the Patriots by a whopping 7 points.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

For me, it's Definitely Gostkowski. While Graham handled the place kicking duties well in relief (and I commend him for that) his lack of a touchback leg cost us valuable field position every time he kicked off. I said as much when Ghost went on IR.

Just to be clear I don't blame Graham, i just really REALLY missed Ghost on kickoffs.

Edit: yeah, just lookin at the stats Graham had 57 kickoffs in the regular season and only 2 Touchbacks, vs 42 KO and 15 TB for Ghost.

To be fair to Graham, touchbacks tend to go down as the weather gets colder, but, still, that's a fairly severe dropoff.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

IIRC Didn't the Pats pass up on a very long FG and ended up with nothing?

If Gost was in the game would they have attempted it?,Gost can kick it from decent distance.