A streak will end when the New York Jets take on the visiting New England Patriots on ‘Thursday Night Football.’

The Jets enter the divisional matchup with their sights set on a much more modest streak of three games in a row. After a horrific start to the 2025 season, ‘Gang Green’ has found itself in the win column in its last two appearances, victories against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 8 and the Cleveland Browns in Week 10.

They aren’t facing the state of Ohio in Week 11, but rather the red-hot Patriots, who enter the matchup winners of their last seven games. New England is off to the races in the AFC East thanks to the meteoric rise of quarterback Drake Maye, who has looked every bit the part of franchise passer this season.

Maye has thrown 19 touchdowns to just five interceptions as he gets set for his matchup against the Jets on Thursday night. He’ll also look for his first full night of action vs. the Jets: He entered in mop-up duty in his first appearance vs. New York in his rookie season, while his second ended in a concussion.

That means Maye has his next, best and biggest opportunity to secure his first win vs. the Jets – unless New York finds its winning ways once again.

USA TODAY Sports will provide live updates, highlights and more from the ‘Thursday Night Football’ tilt between the Jets and Patriots in Foxborough. All times are Eastern.

What time is the Patriots vs. Jets game tonight?

Start time: 8:15 p.m. ET

The Patriots and Jets are set to kick off at 8:15 p.m. ET on Thursday night. The Jets travel to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts for the matchup.

What TV channel is the Patriots vs. Jets game on tonight?

TV channel (national): N/A
TV channel (New York market): Fox 5
TV channel (Boston market): ABC 7

The Patriots vs. Jets matchup will not air on TV, as it will be streamed on Amazon Prime Video. Viewers in the New York market can watch via Fox, while those in the Boston TV market can catch it on ABC 7.

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Patriots vs. Jets live stream

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Patriots vs. Jets prediction

Drake Maye is entering the MVP discussion with his 19-touchdown, five-touchdown season, eschewing any calls of a ‘sophomore slump.’ The Jets are coming off a pair of wins vs. scuffling teams, but their incremental improvements on defense, special teams and coaching have been apparent all season. Offensively, the Jets are still a wreck, and the injury to Garrett Wilson again limits the offense to just a single playmaker, running back Breece Hall. The Patriots and Mike Vrabel will take the win as they make an easy night of their division rival.

Prediction: Patriots 24, Jets 10

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Is Garrett Wilson playing tonight vs. Patriots?

The Jets ruled Wilson out on Nov. 12 for their Week 11 game against the Patriots on ‘Thursday Night Football.’ The following day, they placed him on IR, meaning he will miss at least four games because of his knee injury.

Is Rhamondre Stevenson playing tonight vs. Jets?

The veteran running back will not play on ‘Thursday Night Football’ against the Jets. The Patriots have not provided a concrete timetable for Stevenson’s return, though he was ruled out for the Patriots’ Week 11 game against the Jets because of a toe injury. It will mark the third consecutive game the 27-year-old running back has missed because of the ailment.

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The Orlando Magic, already struggling through a slow start to their season, will now be without their star player.

The team announced Thursday, Nov. 13 that forward Paolo Banchero suffered a left groin strain in the first half of Wednesday night’s game against the New York Knicks.

The Magic said Banchero would miss their game Friday against the Nets, and that his return would depend on his response to treatment.

Typically, mild strains can take a week or two to recover, while moderate strains can force players to miss several weeks, if not more than a month.

Banchero played only 12 minutes in Wednesday’s game, an eventual 124-107 victory, and did not play in the second half after suffering the injury.

Banchero, who suffered the injury on the night of his 23rd birthday, has seen his scoring production decline from last season’s total. He’s averaging 21.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game. Last year, in 46 appearances, he posted 25.9 points per game.

What does this mean for the Magic?

Orlando, unfortunately, has had experience with Banchero missing time. Last season, he suffered a torn oblique in late October that forced him out of the following 34 games.

As Wednesday night showed, the Magic will need forward Franz Wagner — who also suffered a torn oblique last season — and newly acquired guard Desmond Bane to step up.

Wagner scored 28 points and hauled in 9 rebounds, while Bane chipped in 22 points, 8 assists and 6 boards.

Bane had started the season slowly, averaging just 13.9 points per game before the most recent four contests, in which he put up 18.8 points per game.

The Magic will rely on forwards Jonathan Isaac and Tristan da Silva in Banchero’s place. Isaac started the third quarter, though da Silva entered with 9:27 left in the period and played out the rest of the third.

Isaac also started the fourth quarter. He has had an uneven run in Orlando and is averaging just 2.5 points and 2.4 rebounds in nearly nine minutes per game.

Da Silva is in his second season, and has flashed some potential, averaging 10.7 points and 3.3 rebounds in 21 minutes per game.

The Magic are 6-6, but have won five of their last seven games.

Clase entering federal custody comes days after Cleveland teammate Luis Ortiz was arrested. Both pitchers were indicted by federal authorities and are facing up to 65 years in prison for a series of charges that include wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery, among others.

The alleged scheme involves Ortiz and Clase purposefully throwing balls in certain situations in order to win bettors fraudulent bets.

On Wednesday, Ortiz pleaded not guilty to charges that he took bribes to help gamblers. He was released on $500,000 bond and was issued GPS monitoring.

A day after the pair was indicted, MLB announced that it has reached an agreement with prominent U.S. sportsbooks to place a limit on baseball wagering centered on prop bets. The betting limit will now be limited to $200 on wagers focused on individual pitches and exclude them from parlays in hopes of decreasing the incentives of MLB players to be involved in illegal gambling.

Bill Belichick’s tenure as North Carolina’s football coach is speculated to be short-lived amid interest from the New York Giants.
North Carolina’s hiring of Belichick is described as a flawed process that has not yielded expected results on the field.
North Carolina should invest in a coach experienced with the modern college football landscape, including NIL and recruiting.

This was the danger all along, that Bill Belichick would get another shot with his first love and leave behind a fleeting fling.

And no, we’re not talking Jordon Hudson. At least, not yet.

This is about football, and North Carolina’s place in Belichick’s pecking order of importance. It may be high now, but that foundation begins to shift at the end of the month — when the Tar Heels complete their first season under the coach known more for winning six Super Bowls than proclaiming he’s dialed in to all things Carolina Blue. 

“Getting ready for Wake Forest, that’s all I got this week,” Belichick said at his weekly press conference when asked about the job opening with the New York Giants. 

He was then asked if players and/or recruits have asked about his interest in the job, which became available Monday when the Giants fired Brian Daboll. 

“I’ve been asked about it from time to time,” he continued. “Look, I’ve been down this road before. I’m focused on Wake Forest, that’s it. That’s my commitment to this team. I’m here to do the best for this team.”

If that doesn’t sound like an invitation for the Giants — who Belichick worked for from 1979-90 — to come rescue him from college purgatory, I don’t know what is.

And it might just be the best thing for all involved. 

For Belichcik and his obviously failed attempt to create the ’33rd team’ in college football. For North Carolina and its obviously flawed power structure, a process that led to chancellor Lee Roberts circumventing athletic director Bubba Cunningham and hiring Belichick. 

And for Hudson, Belichick’s 24-year-old muse/girlfriend (or is it girlfriend/muse?), who’s three months younger than quarterback Max Johnson.

Belichick can return to the NFL and chase Don Shula’s all-time wins record, and Roberts can return to the chancellor’s residence and do whatever it is he was doing before taking a blow torch to the football program.      

Then there’s Hudson, who can recalibrate her dog and pony show on the biggest stage in the world. My god, the New York Post may hire a full-time J-Hud reporter. 

Meanwhile, North Carolina can get back to the business of building a sustainable football program with a real, live football coach who’s invested in the long run. Not somebody who sees it as a hobby until a lost NFL franchise comes calling.

But if there’s one critical takeaway from this comical shotgun marriage of university and desperation to be seen (again, not talking about Hudson), it’s that North Carolina sees what it takes to play at the elite level of college football. 

It just hired the wrong guy to pull it off. 

North Carolina now understands ― despite what longtime blue dog faithful in Chapel Hill espouse and firmly believe ― football drives the athletic train. It’s the difference in thriving and surviving as a sports program, and may one day be the key to escaping the cash-strapped ACC.

Until then, football has to be more than a money pit. More than a place where a down-on-his-luck legendary coach and his socialite muse hang out for a couple of years before someone in the NFL takes a chance on what once was.

It has to be a place where NIL money is spent smartly, not on a woefully lacking roster of transfer portal throwaways that Belichick’s hand-picked general manager Michael Lombardi apologized for last month in an email to boosters.

Lombardi said the purpose of the email wasn’t to “shed blame on the past regimes,” then went on to shed blame on the Mack Brown regime. It was essentially a call for patience, and a commitment to continue financial support — after Belichick and Lombardi gutted the North Carolina roster and replaced it with 70 new scholarship players. 

Lombardi isn’t writing that letter — not even a year into Belichick’s first season — if those filling the NIL coffers aren’t already concerned that this thing has gone off the rails. That Belichick, despite Lombardi’s email of don’t blame us, blame the other guy, may not have the chops to build and win in the college football world of it only takes one year to turn around a program.

That Belichick’s $10 million salary and $20 million NIL commitment may be better spent finding the next Curt Cignetti or Marcus Freeman or Clark Lea or Kenny Dillingham.

If you’re going to take a chance, roll the dice on a coach (or assistant coach) who has been around the block and understands the intricacies and nuances it takes to build and win in the college game.

You want to take a chance? Hire Mississippi offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., or Indiana offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan, and pay them half of what Belichick is earning. 

Then watch them hire a staff that knows the college game, and understands roster building in the player empowerment era. They’ll embrace it, not be annoyed by it. 

They’ll crush recruiting with that $20 million NIL fund, and bring innovative offenses to Chapel Hill. They’ll get quarterbacks who fits. 

Shanahan was critical is identifying both Kurtis Rourke and Fernando Mendoza in the transfer portal for the Hoosiers, and Weis found Trinidad Chambliss at Division II Ferris State ― then convinced him to be the backup at Ole Miss instead of Ohio State. 

Real, profound change is right there for North Carolina. New coach, new vision, same financial support.

All the Tar Heels need is someone from the NFL to take Belichick off their hands. 

Matt Hayes is the senior national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports Network. Follow him on X at @MattHayesCFB. 

Jedd Fisch pledges loyalty to Washington, just as he did to Arizona. (He left Arizona for UW.)
Georgia Tech’s Brent Key sounds ready to take a blood oath.
Lane Kiffin sits out loyalty pledges.

We’ve reached the most sickening point of the coaching carousel. Here come the loyalty pledges.

From Seattle to Atlanta to Los Angeles and lands in between, coaches are pledging allegiance to their employer. I think I might yack.

Taking first prize is Washington’s Jedd Fisch. In an Oscar-worthy performance, he pretended to be outraged his name has been included on speculative lists of potential candidates for the Florida job.

“Those lists are made by people who have no idea what’s going on, honestly. They don’t know what’s happening in our program,” Fisch said, in a speech made for a politician’s stump. “They have no idea how excited I am about the youth in our program. … We love coaching at the University of Washington.”

My guy, you just lost 13-10 to woeful Wisconsin, and the Badgers’ leading passer was the punter. So, yeah, you don’t need to convince us you’re not going to be Florida’s next coach. Your team’s last performance told me as much.

Those with good memories recall Fisch’s previous vows to stay at Arizona.

“I couldn’t do that to my wife, Amber. She has made 12 moves with me,” Fisch said back then on SiriusXM, when asked about whether he’d maybe leave Arizona.

“I am committed to the kids here,” he added. “I want to see this come to fruition.”

Fisch put it even more emphatically in 2024 during an appearance on “The Jim Rome Show” while at Arizona: “I have no interest in going anywhere,” Fisch said then.

Fisch left Arizona for Washington, shortly after his loyalty pledges. His wife and kids stayed in Arizona, so his teenage daughter didn’t have to change schools. Fisch brought along some Arizona players to Washington.

So, when Fisch pledges allegiance to Washington while Florida, his alma mater, is hiring, I say in the Ron Burgundy voice: “I don’t believe you.”

I do believe Florida should show restraint from hiring a coach who couldn’t beat an opponent that used a punter-led passing attack.

Shane Beamer channeled some Fisch energy earlier this season. Beamer called South Carolina his “dream job” and downplayed the idea of leaving for his alma mater, Virginia Tech, where his dad Frank became a legendary coach.

“I have conveyed publicly many times how much I want to be here,” Beamer said.

Is that a promise, or a threat? Beamer’s Gamecocks are 3-6, making them one of the season’s biggest busts after a preseason No. 13 ranking.

While Fisch and Beamer want us to believe they’re not feeling an itch to rescue their alma maters, Georgia Tech’s rising star Brent Key sounds ready to take a blood oath for his alma mater.

“Slice me open and see what colors I bleed,” said Key, a former Yellow Jackets offensive lineman.

Georgia Tech fans will absolutely love that line. Put it on T-shirts and print them by the thousands.

Maybe, Key is one of the real ones. Hey, you never know. For fans wishing to hedge their bets, keep some lighter fluid on hand for the shirt-burning bonfire if Key breaks his word.

At Southern California, former runaway Lincoln Riley apparently found his resting place.

“You guys know what I sacrificed to be here,” Riley said. “I’m where I need to be.”

Points for cleverness here. Riley is using the fact he vamoosed from his last job — a really good one — as evidence he won’t leave this job, another really good one.

His No. 7 Mississippi Rebels will host Florida this weekend in the Kiffin Bowl. Everyone from Steve Spurrier to Gators interim coach Billy Gonzales has endorsed Kiffin’s acumen. He remains a top candidate for Florida.

At what point does Kiffin need to decide whether he’s staying or leaving?

“I don’t know,” Kiffin said this week. “I’m not that far down the road.”

I finally heard something I can believe.

Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network’s senior national college football columnist. Email him at BToppmeyer@gannett.com and follow him on X @btoppmeyer.

Four of our experts are taking the favorite in the AFC West showdown.
Four of our experts are taking the favorite in the NFC West showdown.
Two of our experts are taking the favorite in Sunday night’s game.

You’ll have to wait a minute, but Week 11 of the 2025 NFL season is going to serve up some really juicy matchups involving first-place teams … eventually.

But before we get there, the New York Jets and New England Patriots will kick off the action Thursday night at Gillette Stadium. The next game will be on Sunday morning (U.S. time), when the Washington Commanders and Miami Dolphins meet in the first regular-season game ever played in Spain − Madrid the final locale for this year’s installment of the International Series. Sunday afternoon’s 1 p.m. ET lineup will offer some decent appetizers, including Bears-Vikings, Buccaneers-Bills and Chargers-Jaguars.

The main course arrives in Sunday’s late-afternoon window, when the Los Angeles Rams host the Seattle Seahawks − both teams are 7-2 and tied for the NFC’s best record − and vie for first place in the NFC West, at minimum. Twenty minutes after their 4:05 p.m. ET kickoff, the Kansas City Chiefs (5-4), perennial AFC West champs, will play in Denver against the Broncos, who currently sit atop the division and are tied for the league’s best record at 8-2. Dessert will arrive Sunday night, when the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles, who lead their respective divisions, face off at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles are currently tied with the Rams and Seahawks for the NFC’s projected No. 1 playoff seed, while the Broncos are deadlocked with the Patriots and Indianapolis Colts, who are idle this weekend, for the top spot in the AFC.

Week 11 will also have a compelling conclusion when the Dallas Cowboys play in Sin City on Monday night against the Las Vegas Raiders. It will be the Cowboys’ first game since trading for DT Quinnen Williams and LB Logan Wilson and, more importantly, their first since the stunning death of Marshawn Kneeland.

Here’s how our panel of NFL experts forecasts the pending results:

(Odds provided by BetMGM)

NFL Week 11 picks, predictions odds

Jets at Patriots
Commanders at Dolphins
Bengals at Steelers
Panthers at Falcons
Texans at Titans
Packers at Giants
Bears at Vikings
Buccaneers at Bills
Chargers at Jaguars
Seahawks at Rams
49ers at Cardinals
Ravens at Browns
Chiefs at Broncos
Lions at Eagles
Cowboys at Raiders

In a rebuttal to pundits and fans assuming players toiling for the Pittsburgh Pirates exist only to serve the needs of their larger-market overlords, Paul Skenes maintained he’s focused on success in the Steel City.

‘The goal is to win,’ Skenes said on a conference call after winning the National League Cy Young Award in his first full years a big leaguer. ‘And the goal is to win in Pittsburgh.’

Skenes has four seasons remaining before he is eligible for free agency, yet the perpetually desperate state of the Pirates – their last-place finish marked the ninth consecutive year finishing fourth or fifth in the NL Central – has hatched a guessing game for when the Pirates might be motivated to trade the dominant yet still blossoming right-hander.

A report from a suburban New Jersey outlet indicated Skenes might have told an anonymous former teammate he’d prefer to be a Yankee and be traded there. Skenes was unaware of the conversation with the mystery player after teammates showed him the report.

‘I didn’t think much about it,’ he says.

Asked Wednesday at the MLB general manager meetings about the possibility of trading Skenes, Pirates GM Ben Cherington reiterated that ‘Paul Skenes is going to be a Pirate in 2026.”

“It’s always respectful. Teams have to ask the question, right?” Cherington said. “I suspect that won’t end. But the answer has been consistent.’

Paul Skenes contract

Paul Skenes earned $875,000 in 2025 and is due for a raise next season. He is a free agent at the end of the 2029 season.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Team USA are catching a break with news that forward Auston Matthews won’t be out long after leaving Tuesday’s game with a lower-body injury.
Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said on Thursday he hopes the team captain will be out ‘a week, maybe.’
Matthews was hit from behind into the boards by Nikita Zadorov and later went down the ice to check the Bruins defenseman.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Team USA are catching a break with news that forward Auston Matthews won’t be out long after leaving Tuesday’s game with a lower-body injury.

Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said Thursday, Nov. 13 he hopes the team captain will be out ‘a week, maybe.’

Matthews, who was one of the first six players named to the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team, went hard into the boards after he was checked from behind by Boston Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov during the second period of the Nov. 11 game. The center got up, skated down the ice, checked the defenseman and lost his balance. Matthews also was hit by a cleared puck right before he checked Zadorov.

The Maple Leafs later announced that Matthews would not return to the game.

Auston Matthews injury update

Berube said it’s possible Matthews could return earlier than a week.

‘It’s just one of these things he could come in a couple days from now and feeling a lot better and hopefully he’s good to go, but we’ll see,’ he told reporters. ‘But it could be as long as a week.’

Berube also said goalie Anthony Stolarz (upper body) is day-to-day. The team recalled goalie Artur Akhtyamov.

On the original Zadorov hit on Matthews, Berube said Tuesday, ‘I think it’s a penalty, personally, but I’m not the referee. I don’t like it. I don’t like the hit. It’s a vulnerable position.’

Zadorov, known for his physical play, told reporters about his perspective on the hit.

‘It was just a normal play,’ he said Tuesday. ‘I didn’t really hit him. I hit my right shoulder, 99% of my hits in the NHL are with my right shoulder.

‘I’m not sure what hit he got hurt (on). Is it like when he went after me again and I counter-hit him? Or maybe when I cleared the puck, I hit him with the puck. … There was really no intention to hurt him. I play hard against top players on the other team, that’s my job.’

U.S. Olympic team injuries

Matthews is the fourth of the first six players named to the U.S. Olympic team to have been injured since the announcement.

Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk had offseason hernia surgery. Ottawa Senators forward Brady Tkachuk had thumb surgery in October. Both remain out but are expected back before the Olympics in February. Matthew could begin the on-ice portion of his recovery in two weeks, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said Thursday.

Vancouver Canucks defenseman Quinn Hughes missed four games with a lower body injury but returned in early November. He left Tuesday’s game after an injury scare but returned. He’s day-to-day, coach Adam Foote said.

Vegas Golden Knights forward Jack Eichel and Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy also were named to the U.S. team.

Final rosters are due on Dec. 31.

Currently riding a seven-game winning streak that is tied for the best in the NFL − as is their 8-2 record − the New England Patriots pretty clearly don’t need a nor’easter to suddenly blow in from the Atlantic Ocean in order to ground the New York Jets when they meet on ‘Thursday Night Football’ on Prime Video.

Yet ‘Nor’easter’ is going to be a theme for this contest regardless as the Pats, who are 13-point favorites, per BetMGM, become the fourth team this season to take the field in their new ‘Rivalries’ uniforms conceived by Nike. They are designed to pay homage to New England’s infamous weather, nautical history and proud football lineage.

What’s new about the Patriots’ ‘Rivalries’ uniforms?

The Pats’ new jerseys will feature a predominantly ‘Storm Blue’ colorway, which looks like something of a compromise between the club’s traditional blue muted by gray and is symbolic of the regional fog. A new ‘NE’ logo on the sleeves serves as a clean double entendre. Silver striping on the shoulders and pants is meant to represent beams from a lighthouse, like the one built into Gillette Stadium’s superstructure and also have an embedded netting pattern in honor of the area’s fishermen. Six red stars embroidered around the jersey’s neckline represent New England’s six states and the organization’s half-dozen (for now) Lombardi Trophies.

‘We Are All Patriots,’ famously proclaimed by owner Robert Kraft following the Patriots’ first Super Bowl win in 2002 − just months after the Sept. 11 attacks − is stitched inside the collar. The jersey numbers are perforated as a callback to the uniforms the Patriots used in the 1990s, when Drew Bledsoe was the quarterback and Bill Parcells the head coach. The matte white helmets and silver facemasks are a tribute to the snow and ice that typically blankets that part of the country in wintertime.

What are NFL ‘Rivalries’ uniforms by Nike?

Think of them as the football version of the sports apparel company’s NBA ‘City Edition’ uniforms or Major League Baseball’s ‘City Connect’ jerseys. Signaled during the NFL draft and unveiled in August, Nike has strived to create something that further strengthens NFL teams’ bonds to their unique civic environments. And, as “rivalries” would suggest, all of them will be worn in intra-divisional matchups.

‘The 2025 Rivalries uniforms will celebrate storied local traditions and unite fan communities with designs unique to select cities and teams,” Nike announced during the rollout.

‘The designs are rooted extensively in the legacies and inspirations true to each team, serving as authentic, competitive expressions of community pride while giving athletes and fans an opportunity to connect like never before.’

Which NFL teams have ‘Rivalries’ uniforms?

Eventually all of them. But for 2025, each team in the AFC East and NFC West is scheduled to wear its “Rivalries” unis one time this season. Two additional divisions will be added to the rotation in each of the next three seasons, and the “Rivalries” option then becomes part of a team’s closet for the following three years.

When will NFL teams wear ‘Rivalries’ uniforms in 2025?

 Los Angeles Rams: Nov. 16 vs. Seattle Seahawks

 New England Patriots: Nov. 13 vs. New York Jets

 New York Jets: Dec. 7 vs. Miami Dolphins

 San Francisco 49ers: Jan. 4, 2026 vs. Seattle Seahawks

 Seattle Seahawks: Dec. 18 vs. Los Angeles Rams