Bell's greatness will skyrocket into the Massachusetts atmosphere if he can will the Jets, now missing their first two QBs plus trying to get several key front-seven players back for the defense, into a competitive battle with the heavily favored Patriots — now 2-0 after outscoring the Steelers, Bell's former team, and the Dolphins, Gase's former team, by an unconscious 76-3.

But Le'Veon had words of wisdom for himself, his team and the NFL, whether or not he succeeds in this latest task ahead of him.

"We've got to keep pushing," he said. "When we watch the films, there's a lot of mistakes. We're a young group, obviously we have a lot of injuries, guys substituting in and out. We're still trying to put everything together. We've just got to do it quickly. There are mistakes being made in big parts of the game and that's what we've got to get better at as an entire group.