I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet.

As I said while arguing with the commissioner of the fantasy football league I'm in with a bunch of buddies from our college days (who also happens to be a Jets fan), the Pats lost this game. The Jets did not win it. The Patriots lost it. These are the three reasons why:

1. Ben Watson's third quarter fumble.
The guy had eight catches for 88 yards and a score, but what's more important is that he also made the most costly error of the game on the Pats' side. The Pats would have been set up with first-and-10 on the Jets' 22 yard line if Watson didn't fumble. In spite of the solid effort, Watson remains a secondary option in the receiving game.

2. Cassel and Koppen's botched third quarter snap.
Maybe they were out of sync because Koppen was knocked out of the game for a bit earlier on, or maybe the noise was a factor as the Razor was rocking, but whatever the case, there was no excuse for that play. Cassel wasn't even looking toward Koppen when the ball came at him, and he proceeded to boot the ball back an extra 10 yards while trying to pick it up on the run instead of just falling on it. The end result? A 24-yard loss that set the Pats up with an impossible second-and-34. An unfortunate play due to the fact that this was easily the finest game of Cassel's (400 yards and three TDs on 30-of-51 passing) career.

3. Leon Washington picking a really good time to have the biggest play of his career.
Yeah, he's an alright special-teamer on kick returns, and he's a decent backup running back in this league, but all you Jets fans who are trying to tell me there wasn't a good deal of luck involved in that return (or any other return in the history of the NFL for that matter) are full of shit.

Oh yeah - here's one more: that third-and-15 in the fourth quarter where the Pats gave up an easy completion to a wide open Dustin Keller for 16 yards. He was definitely a solid pickup for the Jets, but there's no way he should have led the team in receptions (eight) and yards (87). Nice job, secondary.