(My Sportsbook) - Rex Ryan does not appear to be an overly deliberate guy, at least as far as NFL head coaches go.

Ryan has won plaudits and garnered a whole lot of media attention since becoming the leader of the New York Jets by speaking freely, boldly, and staying far away from the Bill Belichick school of treating sound bites like they carry swine flu.

So it should come as no surprise that the Jets' headline-grabbing 2-0 start, led by a defense that has yet to allow an offensive touchdown over the first eight quarters of the Ryan era, has come not as a result of a cerebral, read- and-react approach from the head coach or his defense. These Jets are attacking from start to finish, and have caused nightmares for quarterbacks Matt Schaub and Tom Brady because of it.

In Sunday's statement-making 16-9 win over the Patriots, the Jets pressured Brady into a sub-standard 23-of-47, 216-yard passing day, never sacking him but rattling him into one interception and a rash of off-target throws.

They pushed around New England wideout Randy Moss, limiting the future Hall of Famer to four catches for 24 yards, and never allowed the New England rushing game (20 carries, 83 yards) to gain much traction either.

Overall, Ryan's defensive group simply confounded a Patriots offense that was supposed to be a cut above in terms of making adjustments, but now finds itself adjusting to being in a tie for second-place in a division it was supposed to own.

"I thought our defense showed a lot of pride, showed a lot of guts, keeping New England out of the end zone," said Ryan on Monday. "That's critical in that type of game."

Also critical was the work of essentially every active member of the Jets defense, whose solid work all-around made it difficult to single out one player for attention.

"The depth of our team, we talked about it all training camp, where especially in the back end that we had a lot of outstanding prospects at DB, and we had to use 10 of them in that game," said Ryan. "All 10 of those guys contributed to our defense.

"Eric Smith had to go in and play what we call an X position or a dime position. Drew Coleman had to step up and play nickel...But those guys prepared. They always prepare like they are going to play and that actually happened. It's like we are telling these guys, 'Hey, never assume anything. Always assume that you are going to be the guy that has to play 60 snaps for us.' I was proud of the way they responded."

Predictably, the win over the hated Patriots has boosted the hopes of Gang Green nation into the stratosphere, but Ryan and the Jets will have their biggest challenge to date on Sunday, when they face a desperate Tennessee Titans team that comes off a pair of three-point losses.

If the Jets fail to put the emotion of last week's watershed victory behind them quickly, they won't be undefeated much longer, something that Ryan noted when discussing Tennessee.

"They are 0-2 right now, but they could easily be 2-0," said Ryan of the Titans. "They lost two tough games. They lost to the defending Super Bowl champs at Pittsburgh, which is no easy task, as I know. They just had a tough one against Houston. They need a win, but so do we. We've just got to do a great job this week. Our preparation is going to be a lot different, I think. This team likes to run the ball first, pass second. They got kind of Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, not exactly Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, but their version of it with (Chris) Johnson and then (LenDale) White. We are going to be challenged. There's no doubt."

BILLS: The Buffalo Bills knew they should have entered their home opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a 1-0 football team.

To their credit, however, Dick Jauron's club didn't allow their choke-artist performance against the Patriots in Week 1 to obscure their focus, coming together on a short week to out-class the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 33-20.

Fred Jackson made the most of his next-to-last start before the suspended Marshawn Lynch rejoins the team, piling up a career-high 163 yards on 28 carries and also catching six passes out of the backfield.

Trent Edwards was an efficient 21-of-31 for 230 yards, one interception and touchdown passes to wide receivers Lee Evans and Terrell Owens.

But the Buffalo defense continued to rule the day, shutting down the Buccaneers running game (19 carries, 57 yards), and harassing less-than-mobile Tampa Bay quarterback Byron Leftwich into a pair of interceptions and numerous hurried throws in a 26-of-50 passing performance.

Safeties Bryan Scott and Donte Whitner both had interceptions of Leftwich, and linemen Marcus Stroud and Ryan Denney brought him down for sacks.

"We threw a lot of things at them and had success bringing different pressures," defensive tackle Kyle Williams told the Buffalo News. "[Defensive coordinator Perry] Fewell is always talking about the need to get pressure on the quarterback because it leads to turnovers. Fortunately, we were able to do both."

"That right there is team defense," said Whitner of the effort. "The guys get pressure up front and we make plays in the back end."

DOLPHINS: It was a weird Monday night for the Miami Dolphins. Had Miami defeated the Indianapolis Colts and moved to 1-1, it would have been weird funny. Instead, after a frustrating 27-23 loss, it was weird disturbing.

Miami ran 84 plays to Indianapolis' 35, and held the ball for more than 45 minutes to fewer than 15 for the Colts. Indy simply couldn't get the Dolphins off the field, allowing Miami to generate 239 yards on the ground and convert 16-of-22 attempts on third- and fourth-down.

Yet somehow Tony Sparano's team lost, giving up a smattering of big plays that allowed Indy to polish off the win, including a game-winning 48-yard catch- and-run for Pierre Garcon late in the fourth quarter. Peyton Manning completed just 14 passes (on 23 attempts) all night, but made his throws count for 303 yards.

The Colts' figure of 14:53 in time of possession was the lowest for a winning team since the statistic was first kept in 1977.

"I would like to ask [the media] how many times you have seen games like that, where your team has the ball for 45 minutes and they run [35] plays and you have [239] yards rushing and you're [15-for-21] on third-down. It is exactly the formula to beat that team. It is exactly the formula. We cannot give up big plays on the other side."

The most frustrating aspect of the loss for the Dolphins may have been their final offensive drive, begun with more than three minutes remaining on the clock, which did not seem to include a great deal of urgency from quarterback Chad Pennington and the offense. Miami was only able to move the ball to the Indianapolis 30-yard line before a low-percentage heave to the end zone was intercepted by the Colts' Antoine Bethea.

"I just think time was against us at that point," said Sparano of the drive. "We had no timeouts, long way to go. I thought Chad did a good job of managing the thing, getting down the field. We had a couple of long yardage situations, so the longer the yardage - we converted a couple of them - takes longer to move the football and all those things. Thought they did a good job, but I just thought at the end of this thing you don't want to be throwing it up in the end zone from 40 yards away."

PATRIOTS: Don't expect Bill Belichick to get too specific about the things the Patriots need to work on in the aftermath of their discouraging 16-9 loss to the Jets, the team's first defeat at the Meadowlands since 2000.

First, Belichick rarely gets specific about anything relating to his team. Second, New England showed weakness in too many aspects to pinpoint but one.

Quarterback Tom Brady (23-of-47, 216 yards, 1 TD) missed too many passes, the offensive line didn't consistently keep him out of the line of fire, and the running game (19 carries, 81 yards) didn't help the offense's cause to any great degree. Randy Moss, arguably the team's best weapon, came up small to the tune of four catches for 24 yards.

The defense kept the Patriots in the game until the closing seconds, but didn't make things uncomfortable enough for quarterback Mark Sanchez (14- of-22, 163 yards, 1 TD) and allowed running backs Thomas Jones and Leon Washington to combine for over 100 yards on the ground.

The return game did nothing of note, and the special teams defense allowed decent-sized returns to the Jets' Jim Leonhard and Leon Washington.

So, for this week at least, you'll forgive Belichick for not identifying specifics.

"Overall, we need to do a lot of things better than we did yesterday," said Belichick on Monday, "coaching, playing, offense, defense, special teams, big guys, skilled guys, you name it. [There are] too many little things that need to be better. [We are] just not doing things as well as we need to do them; in a close division game like that, that ends up being the difference. They did them better than we did and I think the results speak for themselves."

Belichick was asked specifically about the lack of balance on offense, as Brady dropped back 47 times and the running game carried it only 19 in a game that was close throughout.

"I'd like to score more points," said Belichick. "That's what the offense is out there for - to score points. If that's throwing the ball seven or eight times a game, if we score a lot of points, that's good. If it's running the ball 70 times a game and we score a lot of points, that'd be fine with me, too. If it's some combination in the middle and we score a lot of points, that'd be good. But don't turn the ball over."