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Trailing 23-20, Sanchez threw a good pass to a wide-open Stephen Hill that would have given the Jets a first down inside the Patriots 20-yard line with just over two minutes left. But Hill dropped it and New York settled for one of Folk's four field goals.
"I think he was trying to make a big play," Ryan said. "You've got to catch the ball first then worry about making the run."
Then the Jets managed only a field goal after Allen's recovery.
"We said it earlier in the week," Sanchez said. "You can't kick field goals against this team. You've got to get seven points."
In the Patriots three losses, Gostkowski missed a 42-yard field-goal attempt on the next to last play of a 20-18 loss to Arizona, Justin Tucker kicked a 27-yarder on the last play of a 31-30 Baltimore win and Sidney Rice caught a 46-yard touchdown pass with 1:18 left in Seattle's victory.
"It comes down to a few plays," Brady said. "When you make the plays you win the game."
Brady completed 26 of 42 passes for 259 yards. Sanchez was 28 for 41 for a season-high 328 yards and one touchdown.
But it was the strip sack on the last play that decided the game.
"In overtime, Bill came to us and said we're going to need the rush," defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said. "We all understood that we had to get after it."
Said Sanchez: "We got pressure inside and I didn't feel Ninkovich on the outside."
That play ruined the Jets' chance to go 3-0 in the division and take over first place by themselves.
"It makes this one hurt a little more," Sanchez said. "The most important thing is next week. We've got a shot against Miami at home and then we'll end up getting (the Patriots) in the back end at home as well."
NOTES: The Jets rushed for 106 yards, led by Shonn Greene's 54. A week earlier in a 35-9 win over the Indianapolis Colts, he had a career-high 161 of the Jets 252 yards rushing. ... McCourty returned a kickoff 104 yards for a touchdown, the second longest in team history as the Patriots tied the game 7-7 after Greene's 1-yard scoring run. ... Greene's fumble into his end zone ended in a safety when Sanchez deliberately kicked the ball out of the end zone, giving the Patriots a 16-7 lead. ... The Patriots gained at least 350 yards for the 16th straight regular-season game, tying the St. Louis Rams of 1999-2000 for the most in NFL history.
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