2025 · Week 17 · Division

Final

Patriots

New England

QB Drake Maye

42·10

Jets

New York

QB Tyrod Taylor

MetLife Stadium · outdoors · fieldturf · 29°F · wind 4mph

Closing spread

NE -12.5

Total

42.5

Model margin

-6.9est.

NYJ perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Win probability

  • Jets
  • Patriots

How each play moved the game.

Jets winsPatriots wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

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

Patriotsedge mapJets
  • +0.154EPA / play-0.129
  • 48.2%Success rate40.5%
  • +0.308EPA / dropback-0.137
  • -0.089EPA / rush-0.117
  • 10.5%Explosive rate6.5%
  • +10.94CPOE-4.21
  • 43.3%Third-down rate35.0%
  • 63.4%Red-zone TD rate50.0%
  • 2.47Points / drive1.54
  • 1.5%Turnover rate2.0%

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 42–14 since 1999

NE have won 3 straight. Meetings average 41.2 points. NYJ are 22-32-2 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2025 · W11NYJ @ NE1427NE
2024 · W8NYJ @ NE2225NE
2024 · W3NE @ NYJ324NYJ
2023 · W18NYJ @ NE173NYJ
2023 · W3NE @ NYJ1510NE
2022 · W11NYJ @ NE310NE
2022 · W8NE @ NYJ2217NE
2021 · W7NYJ @ NE1354NE

Box score

Individual performances

Patriots

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Drake Maye19/2125650
Joshua Dobbs3/43000

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
TreVeyon Henderson19824.30
Rhamondre Stevenson8475.91
Drake Maye3227.30
D'Ernest Johnson451.30
Joshua Dobbs2-1-0.50

Jets

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Brady Cook19/3315201

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Breece Hall141117.91
Kene Nwangwu6315.20
Isaiah Davis3113.70
Khalil Herbert252.50
Isaiah Williams155.00
Brady Cook210.50

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 -12.52.6%3.2%3.4%5.0%3.2%7.3%5.9%

Positive margins favour Jets; negative favour Patriots.

Half-point at risk

1.37%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

31.2%

Expected total

45.2est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)-9.18
  • Home-field advantage+1.71
  • Quarterback adjustment+0.60
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin-6.87