The New York Jets ground game is averaging 152 yards per contest, and Forte leads the way with 96 yards on 22 carries.
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It was a rough start to the 2016 National Football League season for both the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills, and things will get even tougher for one of those teams in Week 2.
He did it with a quality performance.
The defensive line was dominant, sacking Andy Dalton seven times. However, this is a loss to a good team and the Jets being in a position to win should bring some optimism for the rest of the season. “This is a big game for us, for the obvious reasons”.
It conjured up Green’s 10 catch in the 2012 play-in game for the playoffs in Pittsburgh when he somehow got separation for a 21-yard completion with eight seconds left to set up Josh Brown’s 43-yard field goal to win it.
Carolina 30, San Francisco 17: Many Week One appearances can be deceiving, and that’s true of the 49ers, who can’t be almost as good as they looked against the punchless Rams. Taylor has zero touchdown passes in his last three regular season games.
The first real sign of a crack in the foundation was Houston’s DeAndre Hopkins catching five passes for 118 yards and two scores last November, with Revis on him most of the game.
Weve got to score touchdowns, Fitzpatrick said.
On the day, it wasn’t a awful stat line for Fitzpatrick as he went 19-35 for 189 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. How many times have you seen the opponent start to get that look realizing it might not be their day? It’s time to hand out the report card grades so let’s get to it. But guess what, the Bengals won and we were never upset nor threatened for one minute.
On Cincinnati’s next possession, Mike Nugent was wide right on a 52-yard attempt that kept the game a one-point affair.
It wasn’t only Dalton’s doing.
Pro Bowl cornerback Darrelle Revis was completely outclassed by Bengals star receiver A.J. Green, who finished with 12 catches for 180 yards.
Adjusting to the Jets’ fierce rush, first-year offensive co-ordinator Ken Zampese went to quick receiver screens and showed some of the creativity that characterized the offence under former co-ordinator Hue Jackson. His blocked chip-shot field goal and missed PAT went a long way toward giving the Jets a smaller margin for error, but this defense has to stop the Bengals on that final drive. Both teams then added field goals as the second quarter played out, going to the half with NY leading 16-13. NY led 22-20 before the Bengals connected on a 47-yard field goal with 54 seconds remaining.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton was a ideal 10-for-10 for 152 yards and a touchdown when targeting wide receiver A.J. Green against New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis Week 1, according to NFL Research. It’s the fourth time they’ve started with two games on the road.
The New York Jets squandered their season opener thanks in large part to numerous missed opportunities..
“We were just sloppy down there”, Marshall said of the Jets’ red-zone struggles. Iloka made shoulder-to-shoulder contact, and their helmets appeared to hit, as he broke up a pass.
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“Everybody’s going to be down on Revis because he has a poor game or whatever”, said Buffalo coach Rex Ryan, who coached Revis for four years with the Jets. The Saints’ Willie Snead, an undrafted free agent out of Ball State a few years back, put up 172 yards on Sunday.
