2012 · Week 7 · Division

Final / OT

Jets

New York

QB Mark Sanchez

26·29

Patriots

New England

QB Tom Brady

Gillette Stadium · outdoors · fieldturf · 62°F · wind 13mph

Closing spread

NE -11

Total

47.5

Model margin

+6.5est.

NE perspective

Push chance

1.6%est.

Availability

The injury report

The official league filing for this week — game designations first, then who missed or was limited in practice.

Jets

Patriots

Win probability

  • Patriots
  • Jets

How each play moved the game.

Patriots winsJets wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

Season-long league percentiles for both sides, mirrored. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge.

Jetsedge mapPatriots
  • -0.101EPA / play+0.176
  • 41.7%Success rate50.2%
  • -0.139EPA / dropback+0.282
  • -0.054EPA / rush+0.031
  • 7.8%Explosive rate9.5%
  • -5.39CPOE+1.48
  • 36.9%Third-down rate48.4%
  • 47.4%Red-zone TD rate70.9%
  • 1.20Points / drive2.71
  • 3.2%Turnover rate1.2%

Bar length is league percentile, already oriented so longer is better. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge; rows within ~12 points are washed as even.

The rivalry

NE lead 43–14 since 1999

NE have won 4 straight. Meetings average 41.2 points. NE are 32-23-2 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2026 · W6NYJ @ NE19–26NE
2025 · W17NE @ NYJ42–10NE
2025 · W11NYJ @ NE14–27NE
2024 · W8NYJ @ NE22–25NE
2024 · W3NE @ NYJ3–24NYJ
2023 · W18NYJ @ NE17–3NYJ
2023 · W3NE @ NYJ15–10NE
2022 · W11NYJ @ NE3–10NE

Possession by possession

How it unfolded

Every drive: who had the ball, how far it went, how it ended, and the score as it settled.

Drive-by-drive log
BallStartPlaysYardsResultNYJ–NE
NEQ1 15:00525Punt0–0
NYJQ1 13:351271Touchdown7–6
NEQ1 8:5100Touchdown7–7
NYJQ1 8:3933Punt7–7
NEQ1 6:30758Touchdown7–14
NYJQ1 4:11313Punt7–14
NEQ1 2:481141Punt7–16
NYJQ2 13:1410Safety7–16
NEQ2 13:1046Punt7–16
NYJQ2 11:08848Turnover7–16
NEQ2 7:37938Punt7–16
NYJQ2 3:431254Field goal10–16
NEQ2 0:0200End of half10–16
NYJQ3 15:001065Field goal13–16
NEQ3 9:331683Touchdown13–23
NYJQ3 2:39415Punt13–23
NEQ3 0:58624Punt13–23
NYJQ4 12:421496Touchdown20–23
NEQ4 5:4444Punt20–23
NYJQ4 4:19540Field goal23–23
NEQ4 2:0600Field goal23–23
NYJQ4 2:013-7Field goal26–23
NEQ4 1:37554Field goal26–26
NEOT1248Field goal26–29
NYJOT75Turnover26–29

Box score

Individual performances

Jets

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Mark Sanchez28/4132811

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Shonn Greene16543.41
Joe McKnight7233.30
Tim Tebow4123.00
Jeremy Kerley122.00
Jonathan Grimes111.00
Mark Sanchez100.00

Patriots

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Tom Brady26/4225920

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Stevan Ridley17653.80
Shane Vereen8496.10
Danny Woodhead6172.80

Where this game is likely to land

  • Model
  • Smooth (normal)
  • Betting line

Probability of each final margin. Football scoring clusters — the spikes at 3 and 7 are real, and a smooth model misses them.

line +116.0%7.3%3.2%5.0%3.4%3.2%

Positive margins favour Patriots; negative favour Jets.

Half-point at risk

1.62%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

66.2%

Expected total

42.5est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)+4.03
  • Home-field advantage+2.49
  • Quarterback adjustment0.00
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin+6.52