Jets Have Opportunity but Fall to Patriots PATRIOTS 13, JETS 10

Kenbrell Thompkins, covered by the Jets rookie cornerback Dee Milliner, appeared to catch a pass in the end zone during the second quarter, but the ruling was overturned after a review.

By BEN SHPIGEL

Published: September 13, 2013

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Through the rain and through the wind, the Jets could see first place in the A.F.C. East. They saw their defense swarm. They saw New England’s offense sputter. They saw an end zone that, if breached, would catapult the Jets to a place that defied logic and good sense and anyone’s expectations but their own.

That view started fading when Geno Smith threw his first interception of the fourth quarter. It grew murkier, as if shrouded by fog, with his second. It altogether disappeared with his third, which came with less than a minute remaining in a 13-10 defeat against the depleted Patriots, their fifth straight loss to New England, on Thursday night at Gillette Stadium.