To Bowles’ credit, he stood on the stage for about 10 more minutes, taking questions mostly about Buffalo.
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Sammy Watkins needs five receiving touchdowns to become the second Bills player ever with 20 or more receiving touchdowns in his first three pro seasons.
Heading into a game against the division-rival Buffalo Bills on a short week, it will be interesting to see how the Jets play this.
“If we were at the one, we were probably going to take the points off and go for the touchdown”.
Green caught 12 passes for an eye-popping 180 yards and a touchdown in the Week 1 win and had a nice quote about his successes against Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis. Despite all that, Bowles insisted he had no concerns about his secondary.
When pressed later, he snapped: “I’m not going to talk about it. I’ve moved on. They’ve moved on”.
“So unless you’ve got Buffalo questions”, he said, “I ain’t gonna be here long”. Bowles did his best Bill Belichick imitation, calling to mind Belichick’s “We’re on to Cincinnati” mantra of 2014, except in this case Bowles was off of Cincinnati. The Jets began the season with high expectations, and now they face a tough road game, hoping to avoid the dreaded 0-2 start.
“If I won yesterday, I’d be giving you the same answers. And like I said, if he’s coming down, he’s coming down from the very, very top”. Those misses, which are usually locks for Folk, proved costly.
Since the NFL’s current playoff format was put in place in 1990, only 26 teams – including Seattle and Houston last season – have made the postseason after losing at least its first two games.
Despite the loss, the Jets played well enough to defeat one of the AFC’s best teams.
He struggled at times last season. I just thought we moved on.
While both teams are still looking for their first win, NY appears to be in a much better position heading into Thursday’s contest. They should be able to hit on a few Thursday night.
The Jets played an incredibly motivated game with the city and nation paying rememberance to those impacted by the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
But then he made it clear that the line of questioning, this early in the season, bothers him. “I don’t know why everyone’s talking about a sense of urgency. It’s nearly like the talk is our backs are against the wall”, he said. It’s Week 2. We lost by one point. It wasn’t pretty, but they got the job done. We think we’re a good team. “We have to get back to work tomorrow”. According to Alex Kozora, the last time they did so was in 2008-when Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Jets’ quarterback, was under center.
Instead, the Bengals, backed up at their own 16-yard line, marched into Jets territory to give kicker Mike Nugent the opportunity to nail a 47-yard field goal with 54 seconds left. In fact, you could easily make the case that the Jets’ home loss to Cincinnati was more impressive than the Giants’ win over a questionable Cowboys team.
“We do a lot of communication back there, a lot of things that we change up”, he said.
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After the Jets’ game at Buffalo, the schedule doesn’t let up.
