Todd Bowles: Ryan Fitzpatrick will be back next week as starter

And it’s what now defines this year’s Arizona Cardinals. On the other side, David Johnson, 24, of Arizona had the night of his life.

Coach Bruce Arians said the philosophy hasn’t changed but the running game has.

“It’s good to see us do that”, quarterback Carson Palmer said. “We haven’t been always been able to. So, anybody we’d have put back there would have had a problem I think”. “We didn’t change much as all of what we were doing. We’re still how we are”. Fitzpatrick said he didn’t want to be removed, but he promised to keep a positive outlook.

“Having a secondary that we have with so many ballhawks, we have the ability to take the ball away”, Cardinals five-time Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Peterson said. There hasn’t been a ton of it (in the past).

“I think every game we lost it was just little bitty inconsistencies here and there; that’s why we lost the football games”. “We’ve got a long way to go”.

Stopping the run was one of the few things the New York Jets had done well this season.

But there have been hardly any of those big passing plays that have been so common in the past.

That’s remarkable efficiency, and exactly what Arizona needed from its signal-caller against a defense that opted to bring more pressure last night than it had throughout the season.

Fitzpatrick was re-signed to a one-year, $12 million deal on the eve of training camp, a move most Jets players celebrated after the veteran quarterback set a franchise record with 31 touchdown passes and led NY to a 10-6 record and within a win of a playoff spot.

Jets CB Buster Skrine had a particularly rough game, getting whistled for three holding penalties and one pass interference call. You’d still like to get a chunk.

“Until I talk with my coaches, as the season goes forward, if we decide to do that, we’ll do it”, Bowles said.

However, the Cardinals beating both of them – handily – and improving their record to 3-3 in the process is, if nothing else, a step in the right direction.

Johnson, who carried 22 times, scored on runs of 58, 2 and 2 yards to become the first back to rush for three touchdowns against the Jets since LeSean McCoy did it in 2011. There are many, many things that go into those statistics, including the big deficit in Buffalo (requiring a lot of passes late) and playing with a lead so often in 2015. “Just frustration”, he said. The franchise’s best running backs played from the 1940s to the 1980s.

It came with the Jets moving the chains well during a long, time-consuming drive toward the end of the third quarter.

“Run blocking is fun”.

If Johnson stays healthy and continues to run like a locomotive, he can become the best Cardinals running back of all time.

Just to be clear, I know that Marshall didn’t score once all game, and that’s all you can really ask for in a win.

Arians gave the entire offensive front a game ball, including the tight ends. It’s the most rushing yards San Francisco has allowed since giving up 324 yards to the Los Angeles Rams in 1958. “That’s worthy of a game ball for a blocking unit”.

Bowles went to NY and the Jets were 10-6 in 2015, narrowly missing the playoffs.

Actually, it was one Super Bowl ring in eight National Football League seasons, but obviously, Bowles didn’t take the advice.

The Cardinals won’t change their approach. “It’s always been the way we wanted to play”.