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Meyers had a breakout performance on Monday night.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
2) We finally saw a breakout performance by a Patriots receiver, with Jakobi Meyers lighting things up on Monday night.\u00a0 Meyers was absolutely terrific, hauling in 12 receptions on 14 targets as he racked up a career-high 169-yards.\u00a0 He and Newton were in sync the entire night, with Meyers making some impressive receptions against a Jets defense that had a hard time keeping up with him.<\/p>\n
Meyers came into Monday night with just 11 receptions on the year for 125-yards and more than doubled his total thanks to his effort.\u00a0 \u00a0He’s now third on the team in receiving yards behind Damiere Byrd (337yds) and Julian Edelman (315yds).\u00a0 It’s been a long road for Meyers, who had shown flashes but hadn’t been able to put together a performance like this prior to Monday night.\u00a0 With Edelman’s absence and N’Keal Harry still sidelined, he’s stepping up at the right time and he should be fun to watch over the course of the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
3) Damien Harris had another strong performance, rushing for 71-yards on 14-carries before leaving the game with a chest injury.\u00a0 Harris ran hard all night, which included an impressive run to start the game where he picked up 12-yards on a carry that saw him drag nearly the entire Jets defense with him to kick off the evening.\u00a0 He finished the night averaging 5.1-yards per carry.<\/p>\n
The big question now will obviously be his health heading into what will likely be a tough battle against the Ravens, who will visit Gillette Stadium on Sunday.\u00a0 But Harris has been outstanding and has shown a lot of the same toughness and grit we saw from him in college.\u00a0 It may have taken some time for him to get started after battling injuries and being buried on the depth chart, but so far, 2020 has been a big step forward.\u00a0 Sunday night’s performance now has him as the team leader in rushing yards with 350 on 63 carries, with a 5.6 yards per carry average.<\/p>\n
4) Special teams was definitely a big key to Monday night’s win and it was Nick Folk who came away with a solid evening.<\/p>\n
Folk hit all three of his field goal attempts, with his final one coming from 51-yards out and it was never in doubt.<\/p>\n
He’s quietly had a solid year, hitting 14-of-16 on the season, including 6\/7 from 40yds-49yds and 1\/2 from 50+.\u00a0 But his game-winning kick was huge as it broke the Patriots 4-game skid and sent them home with a big divisional win.\u00a0 Given how the year started for the team at this position, he’s seemingly gotten better as the year has gone on and Monday night was a nice reminder that if they can keep these games close, Folk can definitely get the job done if called upon.<\/p>\n
5) J.C. Jackson had a rough night, but they say it’s not how you start but how you finish and fortunately, that was more or less the story for him.<\/p>\n He got beat on a 50yd touchdown bomb from Joe Flacco to Breshad Perriman, who made a double move and managed to get behind Jackson, with Flacco dropping in perfectly as Perriman caught it in stride.\u00a0 Jackson wasn’t able to catch back up with him and that put the Jets up 10-7 with 9:59 left to go in the first half.<\/p>\n But Perriman wasn’t done.\u00a0 He got Jackson again later in the game, after Jackson lost his balance down in the red zone and Perriman blew by him, with Flacco hitting the receiver again for another touchdown.\u00a0 That put them up by 10 at 27-17 with 0:30 left in the 3rd quarter.<\/p>\n However, after the Patriots put together a 17 play drive that ended with a field goal to get back within 7 at 27-20, Jackson picked Flacco off on the first play from scrimmage, tracking down a deep ball that Flacco overthrew to Denzel Mims and Jackson ran under it and made the interception.\u00a0 That gave the ball back to Newton and the offense, who marched 72-yards on 11-plays and finished the drive off with a 1yd touchdown run by Newton, which tied the score at 27-27.<\/p>\n Jackson’s turnover was the key play of the game and after a tough evening, allowed him to finish things off on a positive note.\u00a0 But give him credit, as bad as things had gone, he never gave up and it was great to see him create that turnover, which increased his interception streak to four straight games.<\/p>\n New England will now return home to get ready for a showdown against the Ravens, who they’ll face Sunday night at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the biggest problems the Patriots have seemingly had for much of the season has been the ability to put together a complete game and find a way to win.\u00a0 Monday night’s showing down in New Jersey was definitely a nice way to get back on track after they finished the night with a walk-off win to beat the Jets 30-27. Here are some thoughts on the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22204,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-patriots-season","category-patriots-commentary"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/images\/us-presswire\/600w\/2020-Week-9-J.C.-Jackson-RkoyS-600w.jpg\")
Jackson had a rough night but he rebounded with a big play.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n