FOXBOROUGH – A game that had everything turned out to have everything but.Everything but a victory for the New England Patriots.If the Patriots were a young, up-and-coming team, a stirring comeback from an 18-point deficit could be seen as a definite building block. Of course, the Patriots aren?t young. They?ve won three Super Bowls, they still have a lot of people left from those teams, and all last night?s 34-31 loss to the New York Jet represented to them was just that ? a loss.?You can spin it any way you want,” linebacker Tedy Bruschi said. “But it?s still a divisional loss to the Jets. I don?t think we?ll find any positives out of this one.”The Patriots prefer not to look at the stirring comeback. Instead, they look at what made the stirring comeback necessary.?We dug ourselves a hole and we made some plays to get back in there,” coach Bill Belichick said. “We missed some good opportunities in the third quarter to really close the gap.”When you?re playing against a quarterback like Bret Favre, the last thing you want to do is give up a 92-yard kick return. But that?s what the Patriots did. It was midway through the second quarter, and it was only 10-6 when Stephen Gostkowski kicked off after booting a field goal.Leon Washington caught the ball on his own eight-yard line, got a couple of killer blocks as he crossed the field, and turned on the Jets on the sideline right in front of his bench to race to the end zone and make it 17-6.?That was a big play,” Belichick said. “We didn?t cover it. They are a good return team. We know that ? We didn?t play it well.”One would suppose that if you?re looking for some kind of a silver lining in a game like this, backup quarterback Matt Cassel?s 400 yards in the air n on a 30-51-0, two-touchdown performance, would appear to be the one thing the team can hang its hat on.?But it wasn?t enough,” he said.Still, Cassel?s take on the game wasn?t as grim-faced as some of his teammates.?I think any time you can come back from a 24-6 deficit it?s a building block and something every team can be proud of,” he said. “Obviously we never want to lose. But it?s definitely something we can take away and hopefully not have to use down the road ? but we might have to use down the road. To show that kind of fight and tenacity, I thought that was great for the team.”The win means the Jets, at 7-3, are all alone atop the AFC East, with the Patriots a game behind at 6-4. The Patriots have another division game next Sunday in Miami against the Dolphins.The Jets appeared to have the game won in regulation after answering Gostkowski?s game-tying field goal with a 14-play, 67-yard drive that ate up seven minutes of the fourth quarter. Thomas Jones’ one-yard plunge with 3:10 left made it 31-24. But the Patriots launched an eight-play, 62-yard drive in the last 1:03 to tie it.?We executed the two-minute drill nicely and got it down field,” Cassel said.What happened next will make everyone?s highlight reel. With only eight seconds to go in regulation, Cassel rolled out and found a diving Randy Moss in the end zone. Moss, blanketed all night with double coverage, managed to beat former Patriot Ty Law to the ball, dove and somehow managed to snare it keep possession as he fell.?He made a magnificent catch and he was able to keep his feet inbounds,” Cassel said. “That?s why he?s special.”The Jets won the overtime toss, and were pinned back deep in their territory when Favre found tight end Dustin Keller all alone just beyond the marker for a first down. From there, Favre marched the Jets down the field until Jay Feeley settled matters with a 34-yard field goal.The Jets took a 24-6 lead midway through the second quarter and then watched as the Patriots – despite several errors in the third quarter – scored two touchdowns and a field goal to tie the game early in the fourth quarter.The Patriots started to make things interesting with less than a minute to go in the first half, completing a 10-play, 68-yard drive with