FOXBORO — No team has had more success shutting down the Patriots’ high-powered offense this season than the Jets. They are the only team to have held the Patriots to zero touchdowns.

New England coach Bill Belichick said the Jets disguise their defense so well that offenses have a hard time trying to figure out what they are doing, and by the time they do, it’s often too late. The Jets are limiting their opponents to only 281.6 yards (ranked third in the NFL) and 17.6 points per game (ranked seventh).

“The one thing about the Jets is they continue to add little tweaks and give you different looks on it as the year goes along,” Belichick said. “I’m sure even if they run the same things against us that they ran in the first game, they will do it with a little variation or something that makes it look a little bit different than what it was the last time. They do a good job of that.

“They don’t just line up and tell you what they’re going to be in. They try to make their coverages, their blitzes and their packages all blend together, so it’s hard to read after the ball is snapped. I’m sure we’ll get something similar to that this week.”

The Patriots went 0-3 in the red zone against the Jets in their 16-9 loss in Week Two. Belichick said that it is a lot harder to gain yardage in the red area because the defense doesn’t have to protect as much of the field as they do between the 20s.

“You just have less space in the throwing game,” Belichick explained. “The holes are smaller. The defenders sit on the routes tighter because they don’t have to get run off, and in the running game you are dealing with more people. [If] the ball’s at midfield, you have safeties and corners that are playing deep enough that [they] really don’t affect the running game until you gain 8 or 10 yards. They are just not close enough to really be a part of it because of their coverage responsibilities.”

In the red zone, the defensive backs and safeties play closer to the line of scrimmage because there is not a lot of room to get beat deep, which makes it difficult to both run and pass.

“Down there, offensively, you’re dealing with more guys in the running game and tighter fits in the passing game,” Belichick said. “So if the defense does a reasonably good job offensively, you need a good throw, a good catch and a good route to really stick it in there in a tight hole. And those holes are a lot tighter than they are out in the field, generally speaking; unless there’s some kind of major mistake, or a receiver runs a great route and gets a lot of separation on the defender down there. But that’s harder to do.

“Good throw, good catches, good routes, good timing, that’s really what you need in the passing game down there. And then in the running game, you have to take care of more guys, whether that’s to run them back, run through them, breaking a tackle, putting his head down for another yard or two. Or [you have to] come up with some type of a scheme play that either eliminates those guys from fitting into the run game, or bringing receivers in to block them and having somebody less dangerous — like the corner — be the unblocked guy as opposed to a safety. I mean, those are your options.”

Belichick said that the Patriots will be spending a lot of time this week working on their red-zone offense.

In Week Two, defensive back Leigh Bodden set up a golden scoring opportunity for the Patriots’ offense when he recovered a Leon Washington fumble at the Jets’ 17-yard-line with 8:36 remaining in the first quarter. But two offensive holding penalties pushed the Patriots out of the red zone, and they had to eventually settle for a 45-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski.

On their next trip inside the 20, the Patriots gained 5 yards on three plays and had to settle for a 25-yard Gostkowski field goal. On their ensuing red-zone possession, Gostkowski booted a 29-yard field goal after the Patriots could not convert a third-and-3 from the Jets’ 11 in the final minute of the first half.

“We’re not doing as well in that area of the field as we’d like to do, as we feel like we can do and we need to do a better job of it,” Belichick said. “There’s no other way to put it and those are important points — the difference between three and seven — those are important points both ways and we have to coach it better, we have to play it better. We’ve got to play our best football in that area of the field because there’s a lot at stake and there are a lot of things we need to do better. It’s not any one thing; it’s a lot of different plays.”

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