The clash between the two teams with the best record (9-2) in the AFC has the fans impatient for Monday Night Football to arrive, as it will be played with the intensity of a final. Mark Sanchez and his NY Jets will visit the New England Patriots with the boost of their 4 win streak that puts them just one game away from tying their best steak this season, which was accomplished between Week 2 and 6. Waiting for them will be Tom Brady and his Patriots, a team that has also delighted their fans this season with a 5 win streak -which took place from Week 3 through 8- and that is looking to extend their three consecutive victories on Monday Night Football, in front of their fans that will pack the 68,756 seats at stake in the Gillette Stadium. If there is someone that the Patriots are not missing at all is wide receiver Randy Moss, who left the franchise after Week 4 unsatisfied for not receiving a contract extension offer from New England. And how could they miss Moss when they have receivers like Wes Welker and Deion Branch performing at a great level? For instance, just consider their last game against the Detroit Lions during Thanksgiving, where both of players ended up with 2 touchdowns each for the come from behind win. Their success has everything to do with the great connection that they have established with Tom Brady, whose performance deserves a paragraph apart. Despite having a foot injury, Brady played his best game of the season so far against the Lions, completing 21-of-27 passes for 341 yards and 4 touchdowns, all of them in the second half. With those 4 TDs he reached 20 in the season, topping for 8th time in his career the 20-pass TD mark. The quarterback also continued with his no picks streak -6 games now- that began on Week 7 in the 23-20 win against the Chargers in San Diego. Meanwhile the Jets are enjoying of their second best start in franchise history and are on the right track to tie the 12-win record from 1998. Unlike the Patriots, the Jets didn’t depend as much on their quarterback during their last victory against the Cincinnati Bengals at home. Sanchez threw his 16th touchdown of the season in the 26-10 win, but also suffered his 8th interception. He completed 16-of-28 for 166 yards in a discrete performance. Who didn’t have a discrete performance and took all the weight of the Jets’ offense was Brad Smith: the 26-year-old wide receiver played a vital role with his two long touchdowns that sealed the victory. The first of them came in the third quarter through a 53 yard run, and the second one in the fourth quarter through an amazing 89-yard kickoff return, which for the record, he completed with a missing shoe. Of the two losses that the Patriots have suffered this season, one of them was against the Jets, and they will surely want their revenge in front of their crowd. That game took place on Week 2 and ended up 14-28, with Sanchez overshadowing Brady’s 2 TD’s with 3. How the two-game regular season series between them will end up is to be found out on Monday.
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