Jets’ Ryan Fitzpatrick undergoes surgery on left thumb

The Jets dialed up three runs before punting it back to the Jaguars at midfield.

Defence has been Ryan’s calling card over his career, but more than halfway through his first year with Buffalo, the team has dropped off from last season on that side of the ball. He should have gone for a two-point conversion rather than kick the PAT after Brandon Marshall’s touchdown catch with 4:46 left in the third quarter.

Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick had a torn ligament in his left thumb repaired and running back Zac Stacy had surgery on his broken left ankle.

“It was nerve-wracking”, wide receiver Sammy Watkins said. “But he’s on our team and I’m proud of him”, Ryan said. It appears that, with the offense playing the way it has over the past few weeks, the defense can settle for no less than perfection if the Jets want to stay in the hunt for a postseason berth for the first time since 2010. He had no strength.

The Bills scored 12 points off Jets turnovers on Thursday.

-When EJ Manuel’s name showed up on the inactive list, knowing that he didn’t have an injury, there was immediate speculation that his career could officially be over with the Bills.

“We had a short week and Josh (Johnson), he knew the game plan going in”, Ryan said of dressing his third-string QB.

Ryan didn’t come out on the field for pre-game warm-ups, supposedly making the point that the game was about the players, not him. “Probably better than Tyrod did”.

So, how anxious should you be if your name is EJ Manuel? Enemkpali, of course, was cut by the Jets in the summer after he punched quarterback Geno Smith and broke his jaw. The second most common form of colorblindness is blue-yellow. “I’ve always done that. It would have been a story had I not named him captain”. For the most part, he’s done a great job with the NY Jets. You don’t know what Eagles team you’ll encounter, so that might be a toss-up. “I’m not pointing at those guys, we could have made plays on defense and we didn’t. Nobody’s flawless including every single person that’s pointing the finger”.

“I made a lot of mistakes today”, Fitzpatrick said. This decision set the tone for going for it on fourth down later in the game.

WROC correspondent Scott Pitoniak has covered the Bills since 1986 and written five books about the team’s history.

Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr has undergone a second round of stem cell treatments in Mexico as he works toward returning to Green Bay for the Packers’ Thanksgiving Day game against the Bears.

Buffalo’s defense impressed in the Jets victory, particularly Rambo, who had a hand in three of the four takeaways. The Jets then got another golden chance a couple minutes later when Buffalo punter Colton Schmidt bobbled a snap and was tackled at his 13 by Jamari Lattimore. It was a odd night, because the offensive line struggled against the Jets’ blitz-happy defense. For the Jets to be effective down the stretch, Decker has to catch more of the passes thrown his way. The first-year coach repeatedly has been questioned about his in-game management, and Thursday night’s loss to the Bills was just the latest head-scratcher.

They had the same issue in Week 7 against Jacksonville. But the Bills found room for McCoy to run.