New England Patriots links 10/22/19 - Boogeymen devour Jets, have Darnold seeing ghosts, hearing boos

TEAM TALK

• Post Game Notes & Records: Patriots at Jets. Records set, milestones reached, trends continued: Patriots off to 7-0 start for 3rd time in team history; Patriots have the largest point differential (+175) through the first seven games in the Super Bowl era; More. /Pretty crazy pace.
• Gamebook: Full Patriots-Jets stats.
• Erik Scalavino’s Game Recap: Jetting away with a win; Patriots bombard New York.
• Mike Dussault’s Game Observations: Patriots leave no doubt, crush Jets 33-0.
• Megan O’Brien’s Stock Watch: Patriots defense dominates Jets.
• Post Game Quotes: Patriots and Jets.
• Post Game Pressers: Bill Belichick - Tom Brady - James White - Devin McCourty.
• Press Pass: Stephon Gilmore, Duron Harmon, Jakobi Meyers, and Kyle Van Noy discuss their performance in their 33-0 win over the New York Jets. (1.38 min. video)
• Highlights: Every disruptive play by the Patriots defense in Week 7. (2.20 min. video)
• Postgame Show: Rob ‘Hardy’ Poole, Paul Perillo and Mike Dussault break down all the Pats-Jets action. (2 hour program)

LOCAL LINKS

• Mike Reiss recaps the Monday night action: Sizzling start by Tom Brady and the Patriots’ offense complements the dominant D.
• Mike D’Abate (FullPressCoverage) Ghost Busters: Patriots dismantle Jets 33-0.
• Mike Petraglia writes how the ‘locked in’ Patriots defense had Sam Darnold seeing ‘ghosts’ in its scary relentless pursuit of history.
• Mac Cerullo gives us five quick takes from the takedown: Darnold sees ghosts, but not Patriots in coverage during ghastly outing; More.
• Evan Lazar tells us ten things we learned from the shutout victory: There were no traps for the Patriots on Monday night as they trounced the New York Jets in the Meadowlands.
• Mike Petraglia talks up how the Patriots used a swarming, relentless defense to help solve their slow starts.
• Tom E. Curran witnessed the Pats defense scaring the life out of Darnold and the Jets. “Wear a mic,” they said. “It’ll be good for your brand,” they said. “What could go wrong? It will give everyone a look into what it’s really like to be Sam Darnold,” they said.
• Doug Kyed says the offense doesn’t need to be explosive, thanks to the ‘spooky’ defense.
• Phil Perry notes Sam Darnold said the Jets were going to find the weakness in the Patriots’ defense and hammer away at it. /They’re still looking.
• CBS Boston recaps the blowout/shutout of the Jets: Patriots remained undefeated on Monday night, and they did so with authority.
• Ryan Hannable explains how the Patriots used 4 players to replace James Develin and Jakob Johnson.
• Zack Cox details how the Patriots used LB Elandon Roberts as a fullback to help the run game.
• Zack Cox Patriots Notes: How New England set tone vs. Jets with dominant opening drive.
• Zack Cox notes Tom Brady will ‘keep throwing to’ Jakobi Meyers, as the rookie’s stock rises. /Team Jakobi!
• Phil Perry finds Ben Watson’s debut gave Bill Belichick a chance to run a two-tight end offense, and New England made good use of the versatility.
• Adam London mentions how Bill Belichick amused himself with the intentional penalty strategy in the 4th quarter.
• Logan Mullen is laughing over the hilarious New York tabloid covers this morning.
• Doug Kyed spotlights who helped the Patriots the most last night.
• Nick Goss picks the Best and Worst from the win. Best: The Patriots have matched their interception total from last season (18) in just seven games.
• Michael Hurley gives us his four Ups and four Downs: The Patriots are very, very good at football.
• Matt Dolloff picks off the biggest Ups and Downs (mostly ups) from another dominating win for the Patriots on Monday Night Football.
• Logan Mullen reports news of a Mohamed Sanu trade sends Pats, NFL fans into a frenzy.
• Michael McMahon notes the Patriots have had their eye on Mohamed Sanu for a long time.
• Michael Hurley has the story of Tom Brady not buying Peyton Manning’s claim that the Colts weren’t pumping in noise to the RCA Dome. ‘You’re full of [Bleep]’.
• Jerry Thornton welcomes Drew Brees to the ‘systemhood’.

NATIONAL NEWS

• NFL Game Center (NFL.com) Patriots at Jets: Drives, stats, highlights.
• Analysis Team (Pro Football Focus) NFL Week 7 PFF ReFocused: New England Patriots 33, New York Jets 0.
• Jeremy Bergman (NFL.com) What we learned from Patriots’ victory over Jets. 1. We’re running out of ways to describe how outstanding the Patriots defense has played this season.
• Danny Heifetz (The Ringer) The Patriots defense is doing things we’ve never seen before: Forget the quality of competition—New England’s seven-game stretch is frightening for any era. Just ask Sam Darnold.
• Curtis Crabtree (ProFootballTalk) Sam Darnold turns ball over five times as Patriots roll to 33-0 win over Jets.
• Lorenzo Reyes (USA Today) Sam Darnold turns ball over five times as New England Patriots clobber New York Jets.
• Jelani Scott (NFL.com) Sam Darnold ‘seeing ghosts’ in scary showing on ‘MNF’.
• Tyler Sullivan (CBS Sports) Patriots at Jets takeaways: Pats provide nightmare for Darnold, Jets.
• Michael David Smith (ProFootballTalk) Belichick exploited “loophole” in NFL rules to run extra time off the clock.
• Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) Patriots are great, but win over Jets just another example of AFC East’s futility. /psst... Bills are 5-1.
• John Breech (CBS Sports) NFL Week 7 grades: Patriots A+, Jets F.
• Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Patriots trade for Mohamed Sanu.
• Albert Breer (SI) Monday Afternoon QB: Inside the Kirk Cousins revival, why trading Gareon Conley makes sense for Raiders; More.
• Robert Mays (The Ringer) The Starting 11: The Colts and Ravens are carving out room in the AFC playoff race.
• Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) The MVP race remains wide open.
• Conor Orr (SI) Who leads the 2019 NFL Coach of the Year race right now?

VIEW FROM NEW YORK

• Darryl Slater (NJ.com) Jets, crushed again by Patriots, are a living, breathing Butt Fumble — and it looks like Joe Douglas needs to be a miracle worker to fix them.
• Bill Pennington (NY Times) Patriot ghosts haunt the Jets again: New England 33, New York 0. Questions?
• Manish Mehta (NY Daily News) Jets QB Sam Darnold commits 5 turnovers, records 3.6 passer rating in disastrous shutout loss to the Patriots.
• Matt Stypulkoski (NJ.com) Jets (somehow) hit new low while getting smashed by Patriots – again: 5 major concerns from yet another lifeless disaster.
• Mark Cannizzaro (NY Post) The worst part of this ‘embarrassing’ Jets mess. ‘This is full strength?’ /Heh.
• Darryl Slater (NJ.com) Patriots gloat after making Jets’ Sam Darnold see ‘ghosts’ and eat his words in blowout: ‘Ain’t too many weaknesses over here’.
• Matt Stypulkoski (NJ.com) Jets’ Sam Darnold’s disaster vs. Patriots destined to become career turning point – for good or bad
• Charles McDonald (NY Daily News) Jamal Adams, Jets’ defense ‘didn’t come to play’.
• Jane McManus (NY Daily News) Bill Belichick came to spoil all the Jets’ fun, and there was nothing they could do about it.
• Matt Stypulkoski (NJ.com) 6 Jets most to blame for agonizing blowout vs. Patriots.
• Charles McDonald (NY Daily News) Adam Gase and Bill Belichick gave Jets fans one thing to smile about on Monday night.
• Ryan Dunleavy (NY Post) Patriots give their take on the Sam Darnold-Daniel Jones debate.
• Greg Joyce (NY Post) Robby Anderson had no chance in this huge Jets test.