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Jacksonville 24 Jets 22: The Jets rallied from an 11-point fourth quarter deficit only to see the Jaguars comeback and win the game. Trailing 21-10, New York kicked a field goal at the start of the fourth quarter and then the defense forced the Jaguars to go three and out. New York then launched a 16-play drive that culminated in a touchdown run by Thomas Jones to put them up 22-21. They went for two, but Braylon Edwards dropped the conversion attempt, a mistake that proved to be very costly.
Twice in the second half the Jets had to call timeouts to avoid too many men on the field penalties and that was a huge factor in the final drive because Jacksonville marched the ball down the field. With under two minutes left, and no timeouts the Jets tried to let the Jaguars score, but Maurice Jones-Drew intentionally fell down at the Jets 1. That allowed the Jaguars to run the clock down to three seconds and they kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired.
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"Trailing 21-10, New York kicked a field goal at the start of the fourth quarter and then the defense forced the Jaguars to go three and out. New York then launched a 16-play drive that culminated in a touchdown run by Thomas Jones to put them up 22-21."
Think about how football scoring works and you can see that is not possible. How could they score nine points on that 16-play drive?
In fact, the Jets trained 21-13 at halftime. There was no scoring in the third; that field goal made it 21-16 21 seconds into the fourth quarter.
I don't recall how the play, um, played out, but I vaguely recall that the pass to Braylon Edwards on the two-point conversion attempt wasn't an easy catch, contrary to what the above post implies. Do you agree?
It wasn't a simple catch. If anything, it was a shitty throw from Sanchez. On some plays he couldn't hit the side of a fucking barn with his throws. When he is accurate, the receiver drops it, fumbles it, or the play gets called back because of a bullshit holding penalty. Same old shit, new players, coaches. At least they didn't wear those god awful throwback uniforms...
Not a great pass, but Edwards did have it in his hands briefly as he was hit so in the stats it would likely go as a drop if it had been a regular play. I don't think they keep the stat at all on conversion attempts.
Edwards, by the way, led the league in dropped passes last season. Not that those should always be blamed entirely on the receiver; sometimes it's a pass that some guys would never have had a chance at controlling even to the point of being able to drop it.
In other news, the Giants did not lose yesterday.