At a few junctures in the Jets' Thursday night road battle with their old friends the Patriots, it seemed reasonable, conceivable, possible that the Jets just might be able to end New England's win streak before it got to eight in a row rather than end their own more modest two-game win streak with a loss.

After the opening drive of the game, for instance, when the Jets surged to a 7-0 lead. After the third-quarter touchdown pass from Justin Fields to newly arrived wideout John Metchie III to cut the Patriots' advantage to 21-14.

Yet it was not to be as the Jets fell to the Patriots, 27-14. And head coach Aaron Glenn felt strongly both ways.

"Give those guys a lot of credit," Glenn said of the Patriots and Mike Vrabel, their first-year head coach but not a rookie NFL head coach like

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