EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Dressed in a dark turtleneck and slacks, his arms folded across his chest, Tom Brady stood in the middle of the New England Patriots locker room making small talk with a small circle of guests.What a day, the quarterback told the group. He would pose for a picture, lean over to kiss a woman on her cheek, and tell a departing teammate, Marcus Cannon, that hed played a good game. Brady appeared to be hosting his own little cocktail party, or assuming the role of the teams good-natured ma?tre d. He was acting nothing like the stone-cold killer he has been on game days for 16 years and counting.Hed just secured his 200th NFL victory (postseason included), tying Peyton Mannings record with a 22-17 victory over the New York Jets, and by late afternoon next Sunday, after a home game against the Rams, hell probably stand alone as the winningest quarterback of all time. And if you were paying attention during his latest conquest of the Jets, you understood why Pick No. 199 (of the 2000 draft) didnt remain stuck on victory No. 199 for another week.Brady had brought his C-plus game to MetLife Stadium, and for good reason: He was playing on one leg, playing without the injured Rob Gronkowski (knocked out early because of a back injury), and, at 39, playing against his tick, tick, ticking biological clock. Hed won an emotional homecoming game against San Francisco in Week 11, flown back across the country, and missed a couple of practices because of his achy right knee before facing a divisional opponent with a history of hitting him hard in defeat.Im happy the week is over, Brady said. It was a long week.It was a longer week for the home team, of course, because Brady still found a way to beat the Jets for the 22nd time in 28 regular-season starts. Even though Brady was off for most of the game, stunning longtime admirers by sailing balls over open receivers, everyone in the house knew what was coming after the Jets wasted a possession while holding a one-point lead in the middle of the fourth quarter.Brady took the ball at his own 17 with 5:04 to play, and the feeling inside MetLife Stadium reminded of the feeling inside Madison Square Garden in the 1990s when Michael Jordan took the ball in the closing minutes. It was game, set, overmatched. Brady faced a fourth-and-4 with 2:53 left, and the older Jets fans in their Joe Namath jerseys and the young ones in their Darrelle Revis jerseys had to know, deep down, that their 3-7 team wasnt about to stop the singular figure who has tormented them like no other.If we dont make that play, Brady said, its hard to win the game.He made the quick pass to James White, whose dive for the first down the quarterback described as a championship-type play. On the next snap Brady found Chris Hogan wide open down the middle, and on the play after that he found Malcolm Mitchell in the end zone for the second time, both touchdowns coming at Revis expense.In the end the considerable number of Patriots fans in the building were heard chanting Bradys name. The right-minded Jets fans who headed for the parking lots? They had to feel like the right-minded fans of those bygone Knicks teams that could never beat Jordan when it mattered most -- frustrated by the dominance, but respectful of the sustained greatness.Truth is, Brady at 39 is much better than Jordan at 39, in the colors of the Washington Wizards, if only because Bradys position demands far less in the athleticism and foot speed departments. But still, the man has thrown 18 touchdown passes against one interception this season. In his own way, Brady is every bit the freak of nature that Gronk is.So even the Jets suspected what was about to go down in the final minutes Sunday. You definitely dont want to put Tom in those situations, said Revis, who was Bradys teammate during New Englands last championship run.I felt good, Brandon Marshall said of the Jets fourth-quarter lead, but I knew that Tom Brady has that thing where it kicks in. Hes a special player. Hes one of the best to ever do it. Theres never a time where hes out of it.Just look at the divisional record books. More than three dozen men have started at least one game for the Jets, Bills and Dolphins since Brady became a starter three weeks into the 2001 season, and only one -- Chad Pennington -- has won an AFC East title (Pennington won for the Jets in 2002, and for Miami in 2008, when Brady effectively missed the entire year). Brady has outlasted more Jets quarterbacks than Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents. He just became the fifth NFL passer to throw for at least 60,000 yards, which means he has doubled Namaths career output -- plus another 5,000 yards.The man who drafted him, Bill Belichick, is usually the last man in any room interested in arranging an in-season parade for Brady or anyone else. But after calling his guy a good player who has great mental toughness, Belichick embraced a question about the historical magnitude of Bradys 200th victory, citing the quarterbacks semi-legal, fourth-down head fake that drew the Jets offside as an example of his intangible gifts.The 200 Ws, Belichick said, says a lot about him and what hes been able to do for this franchise. Thats what its all about. Thats what a quarterbacks job is, to win. Hes done a great job of that. I think today is a good example of not turning the ball over, some good situational plays that came up that dont show up in the stat sheet, like the fourth-and-1 offside ... that are plays that you need for your team to win. Tom does a great job of that. Hes as good a situational football player as Ive ever been around. The quarterbacks job is to win. Hes won a lot. Thats good. Im glad hes our quarterback.Along with his coach, Brady has been the driving force behind New Englands run of 16 consecutive winning seasons, an absurd streak in a league that uses the schedule, the draft, the salary cap and free agency to protect the virtues of parity and to prevent franchises from, you know, running off 16 consecutive winning seasons. Take a quick survey of last seasons one-hit wonders, the Panthers and Cardinals. They were a combined 28-4 in 2015; theyre a combined 8-13-1 in 2016.Its hard -- really hard -- to win consistently in the NFL. And even in a season he opened with his four-game Deflategate suspension, Brady has made it look easy. He completed passes to eight receivers against the Jets, none named Gronkowski, and found six of them for at least three receptions.When it was over, Brady stood before a microphone and engaged in full postgame Bradyspeak. He addressed his staggering individual accomplishments only in a team context, and swore the injury he played through was no more debilitating than the injuries a lot of Patriots played through.You just do the best you can do, the quarterback said. And Ill try to do the same this week.He will conform to the unforgiving diet designed by his fitness guy, Alex Guerrero, who sat at Bradys locker after Sundays game, and he will keep raging against the notion that a 39-year-old quarterback should be in decline. Tom Brady is going to be Tom Brady. For those fans of the Jets, Bills and Dolphins desperately waiting for him to grow old, heres a little advice:Dont hold your breath. 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But this one will be one that hell remember for a long time.It took less than 10 minutes for Matthews, the first player picked No. 1 overall by the Leafs in 31 years, to find the back of the net.The play started with two nifty dekes by 20-year-old William Nylander just inside the Ottawa zone. He danced around Senators defenseman Mark Borowiecki and then flung a pass into the middle for Matthews, his shot attempt squirting just wide of the goal. It was eventually claimed behind the net by Zach Hyman, the third member of Torontos all-rookie line.I tried to just pick it up and I saw Auston and I just threw it back in front and he was there, Hyman recounted.Matthews quickly fired a shot past Anderson steps outside the crease, Senators defender Chris Wideman just a second late in tying him up.After Ottawa scored twice in less than 2 minutes, Matthews struck again on the most eye-catching goal of the evening.Hyman took the action in from steps away like an astounded fan.Theres so many little things on that play that I think most guys cant do and he did it all in one play, the 24-year-old Hyman said. The puck was in the net pretty quick.Matthews gained control of it in the neutral zone, slipping it through the legs of a helpless Mike Hoffman. He whirled into the offensive zone and lost control of the puck briefly, Senators captain Erik Karlsson temporarily taking hold of it along the boards. Undeterred, Matthews dodged a check from Hoffman and before Karlsson, a former Norris Trophy winner, had a chance to make a play, lifted his stick, swiped the puck back and attacked the crease.Perhaps missed on first glance was the slight whack Matthews gave Karlsson on the left leg, an attempt to make the defenseman think he was coming from the left instead of the right.dddddddddddd He then got a quick shot under Andersons glove seconds before Marc Methot could drop to the ice and break up the play.Just a couple puck battles, Matthews said. I think I was able to sneak by my check there and catch Karlsson off-guard and (then) was able to just pick the puck, go in and slide it 5-hole there.Watching it unfold Hyman thought: Hes a good player.Matthews completed his hat trick 1:25 into the second period on his third shot of the game .Rielly instigated the action, veering into the offensive zone with speed before he was steered into the left corner by Ottawas defense. He nonetheless managed to thread a pass through a sea of skates to Matthews, wide open in the right faceoff circle.Rielly said he knew Matthews was there the whole time and was only able to get the pass through all that interference because of his teammates positioning.He changed his speed and he went into a good spot where I was able to get it to him, Rielly said. If he had just driven the net like most guys do I dont think it wouldve worked. But he stopped up and he made his blade available and thats what happened.Matthews fourth and fifth shot attempts were denied, but it was evident a fourth goal was coming and indeed it arrived in the waning moments of the second period.With 9.7 seconds left and the score tied 3-3, Jake Gardiner lofted an outlet from the Toronto zone past a leaping Brassard. Matthews snatched it up near center ice, found Nylander and then took off to the front of the net. Nylander slid a pass just under the stick of Wideman, the only defenseman back for Ottawa.I just put it there and then he put it in, Nylander said.It was the finishing touch on history.Matthews said he would give the four pucks from his debut to his mother, Ema.I think just playing in your first NHL game you know its going to be a special night, said Matthews, already looking ahead to Torontos home opener against Boston on Saturday night. Just going out and there and getting your first taste of the NHL and living your dream right there its pretty special. ' ' '