That’s really what it feels like.
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“It was something that we’ve had in our playbook and in our game plan for a couple of weeks now and finally had a chance to call it. They were matching their linebackers with our running backs, and we had a chance to get Karlos up the seam”.
The Jets then put together a solid drive ending on a 14-yard Brandon Marshall TD catch from Ryan Fitzpatrick, making it 22-10 at the end of the third.
The Jets are 5-4 after nine games, showing that they certainly are who THEY thought they were. It would end its 15-season playoff starvation.
The Jets ran a chaotic play on fourth down, when tight end Kellen Davis couldn’t even turn around in the end zone before quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick’s pass sailed over his head.
Outlook: Looking ahead to Week 11, the Jets will be back in action on Sunday, November 22 when they head to Houston to visit the Texans (1:00 PM ET on CBS). The Jets (5-4) lost three of four.
Buffalo’s next assignment will be a Monday night matchup vs. the Patriots in Foxboro. “And so that’s the one I’ll always chase”. That will be followed by a visit to Kansas City. And Buffalo has a history of not playing well at Arrowhead Stadium. (Ivory missed the Eagles game in Week 3.) He returned to form in Thursday night’s loss to the Bills, gaining 99 yards on 18 carries, but can he keep the momentum going? The images show players running around in virtually identical uniforms, all of them wearing mostly white helmets, with white stripes on their dark shirts and trousers. You don’t know what Eagles team you’ll encounter, so that might be a toss-up.
After beating his former team, Ryan was in rare form.
Calling the uniforms “stupid”, Deadspin presented a video clip of last night’s game that had been modified to simulate what it looked like to people with red-green colorblindness. If they kick the field goal, it remains a two-score game, but now you need another field goal and a touchdown instead of two touchdowns.
The key for the Bills will be their health. “He made it more a division game – a must-win type of game where there would be a hostile environment here in NY”. The Jets added secondary depth by activating CB Dee Milliner from injured reserve-designated to return on Wednesday and promoting S Ronald Martin from the practice squad on Thursday…. And he got it, albeit barely, as the Bills almost blew a 19-point third quarter lead before hanging for a 22-19 win. “It’s a matter of correcting mistakes in situational football”. No question he is the straw that stirs the drink.
Don Banks of SI also had the Jets missing the playoffs and finishing last in the AFC East. Fitzpatrick’s numbers stick out like his sore thumb: 15-of-34 for 193 yards, two touchdowns and two picks.
It would not be an National Football League season if the NY Jets were not having issues under center.
When NY reached the Buffalo 20, though, they eschewed a field-goal opportunity and tried a unusual pass to Marshall well behind the line of scrimmage on fourth-and-two. Again, naming the guy who broke the jaw of the other team’s starting quarterback a captain is quite the line in the sand.
“I was disappointed, but it was typical Rex”, he said. His players usually play hard for him and he deserves credit to discovering Taylor and naming him the starter. A change in general managers – from Mike Tannenbaum to John Idzik – in 2013 didn’t help, particularly since Ryan and Idzik were in the equivalent of a forced marriage.
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Easy as it may have been, it was the rookie’s seventh score in six career games, as well as his sixth straight came with a touchdown.
