By then, Allen Lazard was back in the game with his 10-yard TD catch-and-run to open the scoring, Mike Williams set new records for the Jets with three catches for 34 yards and even returner Xavier Gipson showed up in the scrimmage portion of the stat sheet with two catches for 16 yards.

And where were the Jets tight ends? They helped dismantle the Patriots defense. In fact, Tyler Conklin had a game-leading and career-high 93 receiving yards on his five receptions, four of which secured first downs and three of which converted third downs.

“I think as a group, we control what we can control,” said Conklin, whose group included Jeremy Ruckert and his first two receptions of the season. “We go out there and try to do our best to make our team successful, whatever that is, in the run game or the pass game. And tonight, we happened to get some targets, and we’re pretty happy with that.”

“Conk, he’s a dog, man,” Wilson said. “He deserves everything he’s done today and everything he’s got coming his way, because the world doesn’t know. When you see him out there and just do what he does, people see it and think he’s done something extraordinary. No, that’s Tyler. That’s the way he plays and he’s got a lot more to offer.”

The B&B boys didn’t score any touchdowns after that, but RBs Breece Hall and rookie Braelon Allen combined for the most offensive touches of the game, 34, and 151 scrimmage yards, which compared favorably to their 30 touches for 170 yards at Tennessee.

“I felt like we had a good rhythm,” Allen told Eric Allen and Quincy Enunwa in Jets Overtime, which aired on newyorkjets.com after the game. “Everybody was kind of making plays and we were in a good flow, playing complementary football. The more we can run the ball, the more space it opens up for the passing game.”