What Todd Bowles’ First Meeting with Bill Belichick, Patriots Means for New York

October 23, 2015   ·   Erik Frenz   ·   Jump to comments

The New York Jets are an impressive 4-1, but their stiffest tests are still to come.
The first of those challenges will be Week 7's road trip to Gillette Stadium to take on the New England Patriots. 
Jets head coach Todd Bowles has already shown the kind of impact he can have on a team. The Jets respond much better to their own success than they have in the past. That being said, his impact will mostly be gauged by how he measures up to head coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots.
Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan started off very competitively with the Patriots, winning three of his first five matchups against their rivals to the north. From there, though, the Jets would win just one of the next eight games against the Patriots to bring Ryan's final record against Belichick to 4-9 with the Jets. 
It would be a lie, however, to claim that those games were all sure wins for the Patriots. The Jets were competitive in many of the games they played against the Pa...

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