Matt Cassel admits he’s destined to be on National Football League blooper reels forever after a 19-16 loss to the Jets in which the only thing he efficiently passed was … the torch … to fairy-tale QB candidate Kellen Moore. I didn’t see it until the game was over when everybody kept telling me I looked ugly.
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The victory for the Jets improves their record to 9-5.
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There were also drive-killing penalties, and Randy Bullock missed a field goal and an extra point. The offense botched a few short-yardage situations.
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The latest came Saturday night against the New York Jets, officially eliminating Dallas from playoff contention in the watered-down NFC East. The Cowboys have been tied or in the lead in the fourth quarter in eight games without Romo and lost seven of them.
“It was a little bit of a broken-down play when I started moving up in the pocket”, Fitzpatrick said. “It’s a good time to start playing good football”. And maybe Dallas would have gotten a timeout before the two-minute warning and forced a field goal with 1:50 left instead of 0:36 and, like so many other teams this year (the Giants against the Patriots, the Redskins against Cowboys and countless others) the Jets would have scored too soon.
But with time running out Ryan Fitzpatrick picked out Kenbrell Thompson with a 43-yard pass that brought the Jets within field-goal range and Bullock made no mistake from 40 yards to secure a fourth straight win.
“Kind of had tough sledding for a while”, said Fitzpatrick, who faces AFC East-leading New England and Tom Brady next week.
The Jets came right back and took the lead when Bilal Powell ran into the end zone from 12 yards out, capping a 7-play, 60-yard drive that took only 1:48. Despite Cassel’s poor play, which eventually led to his benching for Moore, when the second quarter ended, the Jets trailed 10-9.
Chris Ivory was held to 37 yards on 13 carries and the Jets just 73 on 26 attempts.
When it was suggested to Bowles it might be of concern that his team almost blew this game, he said: “You don’t almost blow games when you win them”.
Your take on 4 in a row, being 9-5, sort of in position here for a playoff spot, if you can finish business in last couple games… “They weren’t clicking like they have been the last couple of weeks, but he was calm and he was good and the guys believed in him”.
Moore finished 15 of 25 for 158 yards. Of course, a cynic might suggest there are still two opportunities for the players to do so, still more opportunities for the media to clam that somebody’s coaching head should roll (which head doesn’t matter, just cut one off!!), still additional chances for more bloopers and oopsies and FUBARs.
The Jets had four interceptions, including a victory-sealing grab by Marcus Williams in the closing seconds.
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“We’ll go back, and we’ll evaluate the tape, and we’ll make the determinations and really throw out a roster as to who we want to play and how we want to play it”, Garrett told reporters (via ESPN.com). “I had to get rid of it and he made a great play”.
