With the Jets riding a two-game winning streak and the Patriots at the top of the AFC East standings after stringing together seven straight wins going into Thursday night's game at Gillette Stadium, something would have to give.
And that something was the difficulty of the Jets' defense had getting to QB Drake Maye and then the secondary's trouble handling New England's diverse passing attack in which Maye spread the ball around to five receivers in his team's 27-14 win.
"It was a number of plays where guys were running free and that bothers me. It really does," HC Aaron Glenn said. "We have to clean that up, because you can't let any quarterback have those types of wide open receivers, especially him, because he will find them. So that can't be a part of who we are. It was unacceptable

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