Miami Dolphins (4-6) at New York Jets (5-5)

Jump-starting the running game is going to be crucial if the Jets are going to make a run in their final six games. “The season hasn’t been ideal. If individuals won games, we’d have a lot of wins under our belt”.

Parker came into Week 12 having caught a pass in just two games this season, but the rookie got significantly more playing time Sunday after Rishard Matthews was knocked out of the game in the first quarter with a rib injury. The Jets are 5-2 when turning the ball over one time or fewer.

Jets head coach Todd Bowles liked Pryor’s hit.

Chris Ivory clinched the win with a vintage 31-yard TD run on which he broke four tackles.

Landry is now the team leader in receptions (63) and is second in both receiving yards (651) and touchdowns (3). It is an indictment on offensive coordinator Bill Lazor and quarterback Ryan Tannehill that Miami could not produce even a field goal against a Darrelle Revis-less Jets defense.

The Dolphins, who are now 4-7, looked discombobulated until the game was well out of reach in the fourth quarter. “I’m not going to take it out here; we’ll discuss it in-house”. “Only a handful of guys are good enough to play with me right now”. But rookie Devin Smith got off the schneid with his first pro TD on a 16-yard slant strike from Fitzpatrick with 8 seconds left in the first half. He added 21 yards on five scrambles. But whatever the cause, the result is Fitzpatrick’s best game of the season.

Amazingly, Miami’s third-down play on Sunday was an improvement over the first time it faced NY, in London in Week 4: that day, the Dolphins were 0 of 12.

After that game, the Dolphins fired coach Joe Philbin and replaced him with interim coach Dan Campbell. “So we’ve got to first and foremost combat their run”. Those are the facts.

NY needed a legitimate No. 1 receiver heading into this season and they were able to acquire Brandon Marshall from the Chicago Bears. “That’s kind of a classless move to celebrate when a guy is injured”. It hurts. There is no way we should be sitting where we’re at, but we are. But we are. And that’s on our shoulders.”Tannehill finished 33-of-58 for 351 yards and three touchdowns, all in the second half”.

While New York’s defense could hardly contain Jarvis Landry (165 yards), it tightened up the clamps on the money down (third down, for the uninitiated).

Romo has tried his best to make an impact, insisting on coming back earlier than some may have advised, however, on Thursday he gave up three interceptions with two of them being returned for touchdowns. Snell, who scored the Jets’ only touchdown in Super Bowl III, did not attend and has not communicated with the franchise in decades…. “The Jets started 4-1, allowing 15 points per game in those first five contests”. He was also concussed in 2012….

Pouncey was also out with a right foot injury suffered in the first quarter.

Defensive end Quinton Coples, signed Wednesday by the Dolphins after being released by the Jets, ended with no tackles and one quarterback hit….