The New York Jets’ star cornerback was referring to A.J.
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Everywhere you looked, there seemed to be an understanding of just how heartbreaking the immediate aftermath of a season-opening 23-22 loss was and how badly it could eventually hurt a team that won 10 games and missed the playoffs a year ago.
Ryan Fitzpatrick threw two touchdown passes and had a completion rate of 54.3 percent and truly looked good for his season opener. We got down there plenty.
Revis could very well rebound – he’s started off slow before – but Sunday’s performance was cause for legit alarm.
In the first Jets-Bills game previous year, these were Watkins’ numbers when Revis covered him: three catches on seven targets for 14 yards, with two drops.
“We had a bunch of times to win the ball game, offensively, defensively and special teams, and each group made their mistakes, ” Bowles said. In today’s National Football League where the ball is out of the good quarterbacks’ hands so fast, it takes more – fast linebackers who can make plays sideline-to-sideline, backfield depth to counter four-wide receiver sets, and schemes to at least minimize the damage from the opposition’s most unsafe weapons – for defenses to get stops in end games. Both teams then added field goals as the second quarter played out, going to the half with NY leading 16-13. After being one of the top red zone offenses past year, the Jets went 2-for-5 today in their season debut with added weapons. Didnt get it done. “That was the poorest execution I’ve ever seen on our side in the red zone since I’ve been here”.
Folk has been as automatic as they come when it comes to extra points, so his miss on Sunday was a bit stunning.
“I’m not going to talk about (Sunday)”, Bowles said. I feel like I let the team down. We had to get them to understand the plan the best we could.
VIKINGS 25, TITANS 16 Eric Kendricks returned an interception 77 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter and Danielle Hunter scored a 24-yard TD off a fumble return and the visiting Vikings beat the Titans.
Andy Dalton got hit hard by the New York Jets, early and often. It also gave the Jets terrific field position with just over 9 minutes left, putting the ball at their 42.
But for most of his 10 seasons, Revis has been nearly automatic when it comes to keeping other teams’ top receivers off the stats sheet and out of the end zone. Matt Forte gained 3 yards on a run and Marshall had a 4-yard catch, but Bilal Powell gained just 2 yards on third-and-3 from the 8. After Nugent, a former Jet, was wide right on a 52-yard attempt, the Jets drove down the field and went ahead on Folk’s go-ahead 23-yarder.
We made a big stop there, Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. This one was big. We went over it in the coaching staff meetings and we went over every play. “Great team effort by everybody”.
The Bills, Jets and Dolphins all lost in Week One, setting up the Patriots to take over first place with a win over Arizona in their opener. Fitzpatrick underthrew or overthrew Marshall a handful of times, though Marshall committed a bad drop on an unsuccessful last-second drive that ended with Fitzpatrick throwing the game-sealing interception.
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“You just have to move on to the next kick”, Folk said.
