New England's inexorable march to the AFC East continues. It's not a given (Bills can still do it), but I do see 3-4 pretty certain wins on the schedule. They be the favorites.

QUARTERBACKS

Another good game for Drake Maye, although most were hoping for a little more. Dang that talented rookie running back scoring from 7 yards out a couple of times. but 281 passing yards and a score, another solid day at the office. Helped last night by facing a team with a bottom-10 pass rush and that does not have an interception through Week 11. It defies belief.

Two comments on this. First, Aaron Glenn was Detroit's Defensive Coordinator last year. The Lions ranked 5th in interceptions and 10th in takeaways. This year they have 1 in 10 games. And I saw a story this past week indicating Glenn might get another year as head coach. I have nothing against the guy, besides his annoying weekly shell game about who's going to start at quarterback, but what would the argument be for keeping him around? The defense is inopportunistic and terrible. They're going to be breaking in a new quarterback yet again, and Glenn won't help in that regard. So, why?

Second is that apparently Drake Maye and Matthew Stafford are currently the betting favorites for MVP. Guys having great years, no question. But: Jonathan Taylor? Taylor leads the league in rushing yards by more than 200, rushing TDs by 4, yards per carry by half a yard. He has 6 more total touchdowns than anyone else. If we're really going to give the award to a quarterback again this year, just change it to MVQ, because a non-quarterback will never. win. again.

Justin Fields had a nice start to the game, leading an opening touchdown drive which he finished with a rushing score. With 67 rushing yards and 2 total touchdowns, he got you 20-plus fantasy points even while throwing for a total (116 yards) that will probably be 30th of the 30 quarterbacks playing this week. Fantasy football, different from the NFL. Props to Fields for making things interesting. But I hope by now everyone has given up the ghost of him ever being a regular starting quarterback for an NFL team. There were some drops last night, we'll get to those, but there were also plenty of off-target throws to open receivers. Nice guy, maybe, I have no idea. Not an NFL quarterback. Every game the Jets start him they're wasting their receiving corps. I'd argue that Tyrod Taylor -- yes, even Tyrod Taylor -- would have thrown for twice as many yards and maybe come closer to pulling out a win.

RUNNING BACKS

Huge night for TreVeyon Henderson, the double-listing -- top-6 back in the Weekly "if Rhamondre out" -- pays off. Can the Patriots really not feature the rookie when Stevenson is healthy, probably next week? Hard to imagine. Not that I'm gonna argue with Mike Vrabel, for whom everything is working this year, but Henderson looks like a difference maker with the ball in his hands. Skeptics will point to his 3.3 yards per attempt last night, but watching the game there were a few plays where he was barely tripped up by an arm tackle, inches or feet from busting a long touchdown run. I think they'll use other backs in short-yardage some; there was a goal-line series last night where D'Ernest Johnson was on the field. (Terrell Jennings, questionable with a knee injury, was active but apparently only for an emergency, he didn't step on the field.)

Breece Hall finished with 58 yards rushing (his over-under was 57.5, annoying for those who bet against him going against the league's top run defense). This was notsurprising, and he'd probably have finished even lower than that had the Patriots not lost defensive tackle Milton Williams to an ankle injury on the first series. What was surprising was the Jets not throwing their best available skill player a few passes and letting him create. Of Fields' 26 pass attempts, just 2 were directed at Hall, which resulted in 6 yards. I don't know, thinking out loud here, maybe help out your lousy quarterback by scripting a few passes to your franchise running back, rather than sending 24 of them to wide receivers who just joined the team in the last two weeks. Fields himself had only 1 fewer target than Breece Hall. OK, moving on.

WIDE RECEIVERS

Can you imagine Stefon Diggs had any idea when he signed with the Patriots that he'd be the No. 1 receiver on a 9-2 team? Funny thing with Diggs: this is his 11th year in the league and he's never played for a team with a losing record (Vikings, Bills, Texans, Patriots -- successful playoff teams almost every year; Vikings went 8-8 one of his years). Diggs has now had double-digit fantasy points (by either scoring or going over 100 receiving yards) in seven of his last eight games.

There's not really a solid No. 2 at the moment. Mack Hollins, DeMario Douglas -- rising up with usable numbers in some recent games, but Hollins has also caught only 2 passes in three of six and Douglas doesn't actually see enough targets. Next week Kayshon Boutte will probably be back.

Adonai Mitchell debuted for the Jets, and I'm going to say some nice things to counter the heaps of abuse he's getting everywhere else today. Maybe it's because I have him on a dynasty roster and am rooting for the guy, I don't know. He was charged with 3 drops last night. I think 2 is fair, but one was an over-the-shoulder downfield pass with Christian Gonzalez in tight coverage -- yes it hit his hands, but every wideout does not make that catch. There are balls that should have been caught and balls that could have been caught and I think this one was the latter. Another was a badly thrown ball by Fields that Mitchell wrenched his body around to get both hands on and couldn't bring in. Not a drop, that one's a bad throw. I will choose to look at the positives, a team-high 6 targets. If the Jets should happen to have a competent quarterback a year from now (and it's a big IF), Mitchell might have some potential.

John Metchie caught 3 passes and scored, the touchdown was an easy one. With Garrett Wilson on IR for the next four games at least (will they really rush him back in Week 15 or 16? We'll see), these are the Jets' top 2 wideouts. Would be nice to see them working with Tyrod Taylor in some of those weeks, but Aaron Glenn doesn't care what we think.

TIGHT ENDS

I won't be recommending Mason Taylor anymore. Being the top target in an offense throwing for around 100 yards per game doesn't mean much. And then they also completed 4 passes to Jeremy Ruckert anyway. I guess had all 8 gone to Taylor you'd have something in PPR leagues.

Early in the year, Drake Maye was leaning on his veteran tight end Hunter Henry. Henry caught 15 passes and 3 TDs in his first four games. Now, Maye is leaning on his healthy veteran wideout. Henry in his last seven games has caught 19 passes and 1 TD. Maybe Henry will pay off some weeks (Bengals next week), or in tough matchups (like Buffalo) remaining on the schedule. But not a go-to; 4 for 45, like last night, is probably what you'll get most weeks.

MISCELLANEOUS

I've expressed my skepticism for Maye as MVP, but I'm comfortable with Vrabel getting Coach of the Year votes. I suppose Shane Steichen of the Colts is a front-runner, though I can't personally get past Steichen's good fortune in the Week 2 win over Denver (at the end of that one he was fo0lishly settling for a 60-yard field goal his kicker had no chance of making, saved by a penalty on that miss which gave him a second chance).

I don't want to further rip Aaron Glenn, but I do feel bad for Jets fans. They have a boatload of early draft picks over the next couple of years, and it's hard to have any confidence they'll use them properly to finally land a franchise quarterback, or develop that guy properly on the off-chance they do. This very much feels like a situation where whoever the top prospects are next year will be expressing reservations, either publicly or quietly through their agents, about not wanting to be drafted by New York. (Guys like Arch Manning and Janoris Sellers, for example, have the option of returning to school for another year.)

And I for one will not blame them. There are bad teams who are trying to do the right thing, and there are poverty franchises whose owners and decision makers don't deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore. No need to belabor the point about what the Jets are, and have been for years and years now.