Cardinals climb back to .500, Jets in freefall

And in reality, Fitzpatrick seemingly remains the Jets’ best hope of surviving this season-long funk.

While veteran wide receiver Michael Floyd wasn’t as much a part of Arizona’s game plan last night, the Cardinals found success in the intermediate passing game by targeting third-year wideout John Brown.

Bowles said he revisited his postgame comments regarding the quarterback situation, but insisted that he wants to meet with GM Mike Maccagnan and his coaching staff before announcing whether or not he was making a change.

“We’ve always wanted to run it”, Arians said after practice Wednesday.

Monday night’s game between the New York Jets and the Arizona Cardinals was billed a showdown between master versus former student, as Todd Bowles took on his former mentor in Bruce Arians. Bryce Petty, the team’s fourth-round pick from last season, has no regular-season experience, although he did show improvement between this year’s and last year’s preseason.

“It’s possible”, Bowles acknowledged.

Yes, it came against the struggling Jets, but he Cardinals’ defense played its best game of the season Monday, allowing just 33 rushing yards and forcing a pair of fourth-quarter turnovers.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will miss Sunday’s Week 7 game against the New England Patriots as he went under the knife after suffering a torn meniscus in the team’s loss to the Miami Dolphins, the team said in a statement.

Team owner Woody Johnson confirmed the move Wednesday at the National Football League fall meetings in Houston, saying he supports the decision by Bowles “100 percent”.

David Johnson continued his dominant play, and put together a pretty good game in the first half.

Johnson has a clear path early: “Once I got the ball I saw I had a huge hole”.

The Jets were 2 for 13 on third-down conversions.

Smith’s lone series at quarterback ended when he was intercepted by Tyrann Mathieu with 4:20 to play.

“It definitely wasn’t Fitz’s fault”.

Arians was elated when Bowles got the Jets job.

“Very pleased that we were able to run the football as well as we did against a really good front”, Arians said. Some people get rid of people and have success, but some people get rid of people and have failure. It was certainly a better performance than some of the others we have seen from him this season (namely the six interception game against the Chiefs), but by just about all accounts it was still deeply underwhelming and gave Jets fans little to feel good about. We’re not putting them in the right position to make plays, obviously by the results.

“Holding them to three points was unbelievable”, Palmer said.

Even when the offense did things right, it couldn’t get out of its own way. Despite the mess that is the Jets, Marshall remains an every-week starter.

And at 1-5, Bowles knows that New York’s postseason prospects are growing slimmer with each loss. I was just trying to get on the second level and just block. “It’s one game at a time, one day at a time, and that’s what we have been focused on”. We’re not even discussing playoffs.