Safety Marcus Gilchrist, who appeared to have been frozen by Dalton’s play-action fake as well as a fake end around on the play, pointed to “miscommunication”.
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3 – Sammy Watkins vs. Darrelle Revis Watkins may or may not be 100 percent, but Revis is coming off a rough week against A.J. Green, who had 12 catches for 180 yards and a touchdown.
Coach Todd Bowles said the Jets must fix the mistakes they made in Sunday’s 23-22 loss to Cincinnati.
“Most of those plays, I was right there”, Revis said.
Revis’ Jets and Ryan’s Bills will face off Thursday night in a divisional game that holds significance in many ways, shapes and forms. But they faltered in the red zone – where they scored on only two of five opportunities.
“There was a lot of thought, but we weren’t getting the ball coming out in the third quarter”, Lewis said. The only trouble Fitzpatrick had was allowing the defense to crowd him before throwing the ball, which resulted in a few poor passes from the second-year Jet.
“Unless you’ve got Buffalo questions, I ain’t going to be here long”, he said. “That can’t be us”. We went over it in the coaching staff meeting.
3 or 4 man front?With Sheldon Richardson out last week against the Bengals, the Jets defense switched back and forth between a three and four-man front. The drive wouldn’t end the way the Jets wanted it, as Nick Folk’s kick was blocked by Cincinnati’s Margus Hunt.
Folk has been as automatic as they come when it comes to extra points, so his miss on Sunday was a bit stunning. Those misses, which are usually locks for Folk, proved costly.
“You have to understand (something) about me”, Bowles said. “I feel pretty bad about it”.
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.
On the flip side, the Jets’ other superstar player who desperately wishes it was 2010 – Matt Forte – was brilliant for NY on Sunday.
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So between the need to win a game, any game, and the obvious revenge angle – you may recall that the Bills are coached by ex-Jets head coach Rex Ryan, who made little attempt to hide his glee after both victories over the Jets past year – the Jets should have no shortage of motivation come Thursday night. “We just didn’t get it done”. He started his 117th straight regular-season game. The versatile back, who was signed by the Jets in free agency this past offseason, put his game in display in his Jets debut last Sunday. Finally, here are some takeaways from the Jets’ Week 1 loss to the Bengals. The miss came after Garoppolo, in his first National Football League start, directed the Patriots from their own 19 to the Arizona 15 to set up Stephen Gostkowski’s 23-yard field goal with 3:44 to play. “It hurts and it stings to watch some of that, but you try to learn from it and get better”. “But we’re not going to sit here and lick our wounds”. The Bills might not even be favored by the time the game kicks off on Thursday, and the over/under has gone from 42.5 to 41 points in what’s expected to be a low-scoring affair.
