Jets Take Down Pats, Advance To AFC Title Game

CBS New York 01/16/2011 16:59

So the Jets weren’t all (trash) talk after all. Now Rex Ryan’s rowdy bunch is headed to its second straight AFC championship game after New York backed up its coach’s boasts with a 28-21 win Sunday over the Patriots – the team that had the best record in the NFL.

Mark Sanchez threw three touchdown passes and Tom Brady was sacked five times in the most-hyped of the weekend’s four postseason games following a week of verbal potshots from both teams.

The Jets led their fierce rival 14-3 at halftime before Brady’s 2-yard touchdown pass to Alge Crumpler and Sammy Morris’ run for a 2-point conversion made it 14-11 late in the third quarter. But Sanchez came right back with a 7-yard scoring pass to Santonio Holmes and New York finished the upset with Shonn Greene’s 16-yard touchdown run.

Glenn Schuck of 1010 WINS was at Gillette Stadium and reported that Jets fans echoed chants of “Super Bowl” and floated obscenities at Brady after victory was at hand.

“This is the greatest thing ever man. We’re going on all the way. We’re going to the Super Bowl. It’s our time finally,” one Jets fan told Schuck.

The Jets (13-5) kept Ryan’s prediction of a Super Bowl appearance alive. New England (14-3) lost its third straight postseason game.

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