Jets QB Fitzpatrick to have thumb surgery Friday

“It felt weird”, said Ryan, who did not come out to the field during pregame warmups.

“I don’t know if we would’ve gotten the ball back”, Bowles said. “And you guys can (relate)”.

They say you can’t tell the players without a score card, but for a few fans watching the Thursday-night National Football League game, that wouldn’t have helped either. And I’ve got the Bears homefield edge ranked as high as any in the land, as clearly evidenced by their remarkable 19-4 ATS mark in Waco dating back to the start of the 2012 campaign.

CB Buster Skrine on if the game was extra emotional for many of his teammates because Rex was on the opposite sideline… He tried to go and then he had nothing, he had no strength. His counterpart in the backfield, Karlos Williams, just did was Karlos Williams does: score touchdowns. Those turnovers led to 12 Bills points.

Carpenter added a 41-yard field goal to make it 12-3 at halftime, then kicked a 29-yarder midway through the third period after Chris Ivory’s fumble.

The Bills controlled the action, limiting the Jets to one offensive snap in a 53-minute real-time span over the second and third quarters. “He did well, got the team to two AFC championship games”. 500 mark, Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor said it was “definitely big for us”.

Ten months ago, the NY Jets dumped coach Rex Ryan after a six-year relationship. The Buffalo defense stiffened, though, and the Jets settled for Randy Bullock’s 29-yard field goal with four minutes left in the first quarter. The Jets with their all-green, and the Bills with their all-red uniforms, looked like an aborted version of a football-related Christmas pageant. Game on the line, the Jets didn’t turn to Brandon Marshall or Decker.

“We had a short week, and Josh was really, he knew the game plan going in”, Ryan explained. But this time it was the Bills defense that stepped up with their back against the wall.

“So he went for it. He said there was “a mix-up” on the route with Davis and Decker, he said, and Fitzpatrick’s ball went long”. New York’s turnover issued completely turned the game in Buffalo’s favour.

Rambo credited that fumble to instincts. Instead, he credited the work of the coaching staff during the shortened practice week.

“The coaches came up with a tremendous scheme”, he said. But I digress. Bryant seems to forget it was his own coach who put them on that pedestal. “Whatever the coaches ask me to do, I’m going to do it to the best of my abilities”.

Ryan is pretty amped up after winning his return to MetLife Stadium.. “We just had to keep fighting and that’s what we did as a team”.

“How do you think it feels?” “We beat a hell of a team, a very talented team”. That Bills win vaults them right into the thick of the AFC playoff race at 5-4.

Buffalo doesn’t just get stops.

The points left on the field would loom larger later.

The Jets punted on their next possession but then got a touchdown to cut the deficit to 22-17. Fitzpatrick went to Harvard; Luckman attended Columbia.

Fitzpatrick’s fourth-down lob fell to the turf, incomplete in the end zone, when tight end Kellen Davis failed to look back in time for the pass headed his way. After the Jets forced a three-and-out, they drove to the Buffalo 20-yard line and faced third-and-2.

NY Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick will have surgery Friday to fix a torn ligament in his left, non-throwing thumb.

But the Jets could not take advantage. Buffalo’s quarterback completed nine of 15 passes for 59 yards in the first half, and overshot several deep targets.