... without cheating.
Last year the Pats got stomped by the Ravens and they wouldn’t have had any film on them even in the cheating days because it wasn’t a rematch.
Honestly I think it all boils down to game plan and personnel. We’ve known for a while the Pats defense was so-so, they’ve replaced aging awesome players with younger not awesome players. Add to that the fact that Brady doesn’t scramble anymore since his knee injury, which is something the Jets defense counted on, none of their sacks came quickly, they relied on him standing there until either somebody got open or he got sacked, and hen they didn’t let anybody get open. There’s one play in the 3rd quarter where Brady was basically standing there for a solid 10 seconds while the 3 rushers eventually closed in on him. Pre-knee injury Brady never would have done that, he wasn’t a “running” QB in the general sense, but he wasn’t a sitting duck either.