But, the Bills were unable to further capitalize, as the Jets took momentum back.
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The latter worked as the Jets outlasted the Bills 37-31 Thursday night at New Era Field in Orchard Park, N.Y. Marshall, whose status for the next game in Kansas City is uncertain, didn’t get any X-rays before returning five minutes later.
Forte finished with 100 yards rushing, and the offseason free-agent addition became the 13th NY player to score three rushing touchdowns in a game.
Yes, it happened against the Bills, of all teams, as Fitzpatrick connected on eight completions of at least 17 yards, including two of more than 30 yards, for 199 yards. Three Jets receivers finished with more than 90 yards receiving, led by Eric Decker’s 126 yards.
Buffalo (0-1) went down 13-7 against the Baltimore Ravens on the road over the weekend and was held to just 160 total yards by a very solid defensive performance from the home side. WR Quincy Enunwa continued playing despite sore ribs. He got going early and opened it up for everyone else.
“I mean, we thought we could cover them”.
The Jets were not to pull away until after Sheldon Richardson stuffed LeSean McCoy on a fourth-and-one at the Jets’ 45-yard line. Ryan Fitzpatrick had as much time as he needed to play pitch and catch with his receivers and put up 211 yards.Dan Carpenter kicked a field goal with five seconds left and Buffalo went in trailing by 10. He helped lead the Bills to four consecutive AFC championships from 1990-1993 and was a two-time National Football League defensive player of the year in 1990 and 1996 and an 11-time Pro Bowl selection.
With the win, the Jets improved to 1-1 and Ryan’s club fell to 0-2.
He was able to put all of that behind him as he picked apart the Bills defense all night.
Marcus Williams salvaged a shaky night for the secondary – the Jets gave up an 86 yard touchdown and a 71-yard touchdown pass – intercepting Buffalo’s Tyrod Taylor on the first play of the fourth quarter. It was the longest scoring strike of Taylor’s six-year career. He threw for 374 yards and a touchdown, getting plenty of help from running back Matt Forte, who had his first three rushing touchdowns as a Jet and 100 yards on the ground. “We knew it wasn’t going to be a 20-17 or 17-13 game”, Taylor said.
The next series, Buffalo would force their only turnover of the game when Jalin Marshall fumbled a pass that was scooped up by Nickel Robey-Coleman who returned it 36 yards for the score and regain the lead. As Marshall went down to the turf, his left knee got caught under his body.
Ryan Fitzpatrick finished with 19 of 35 for 189 yards on passes and two touchdowns for NY, who were mostly hurt by having to settle for field-goal attempts rather than touchdowns.
“I didn’t know if it was a T.O. injury with a broken fibula or a knee”, said Fitzpatrick, alluding Terrell Owens’ broken leg with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004. “It didn’t look good”.
“I thought they fought, they scrapped hard, they made some plays”. Then, when he stepped back into the huddle later on, it was a surprise.
Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis got off to another tough start.
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At the start of the second half, things quickly swung the Bills way.
