“A lot of people think if they had a big-play receiver it would have been a different story. Not true,” Dilfer said. “The problem with the Jets game had nothing to do with the receivers getting open. Tommy may punch me in the face for saying this, but it was a matter of the quarterback getting the ball to the open receivers.

“I’ll say this, the Patriots receivers were open a majority of the game, especially those last couple drives. There were wide-open Patriot receivers. Whether it was confusion, not necessarily early in the reads, pressure, whatever the reason being, it wasn’t receivers not getting to be open.“