The Jets didn’t get Brett Favre to light up a highlight reel. The Jets didn’t get Brett Favre so they’d be on the big TV game more often. The Jets didn’t get Brett Favre so ESPN would have reporters on their beat and extra cameras in their locker room. The Jets didn’t get Brett Favre to score points like a pinball machine, although it doesn’t hurt when it happens.

The Jets got Brett F… More

The emotions in the visitors' locker room flowed like champagne after the Jets' close shave at Gillette.

"It's surreal," said TE Dustin Keller. "I'm on cloud nine."

"This," QB Brett Favre summed up, "is what I came back for."

LB David Bowens agreed with the premise that this was the most exciting game of his career.

"It was full of excitement," he said. "It had a little bit of everything. Spec… More

The Jets defense has been bending but not breaking, as evidenced by the Patriots' 242 yards but only 13 points in the first half. But on New England's first possession of the second half, the Jets put on the brakes with the game's first takeaway.

Matt Cassel finds TE Benjamin Watson over the middle for a 12-yard gain to the Jets 22, but as Eric Barton hits Watson low and brings him down, he loses… More

The Jets-Patriots Thursday night extravaganza opens with a 30-yard Leon Washington kickoff return, and the opening drive ends with a Green & White bang. The Jets score on a flip from Brett Favre to Washington, who is lined up as a flanker, shakes and bakes upfield behind a Damien Woody block and gets across the goal line behind Nick Mangold's end zone block. Five and a half minutes in, the Jets le… More

Can't beat a start like this. The Jets march down the field for 80 yards on eight plays to take a 7-0 lead, and it's all Thomas Jones.

TJ opens the game with a 20-yard bounceout left off a Brett Favre draw and carries five times for 53 yards on the drive, getting to the second level on almost each run. And Jones scores the TD by following FB Tony Richardson off the Jets' right side and bouncing o… More