Dalton gets up, rallies Bengals with quality performance
Enunwa was the star on the day, and, although I could live without ever seeing one of those quasi end-arounds again, he’s clearly providing an element to the passing game that he didn’t a year ago.
Massive win for the Bengals as they were able to escape with 23:22 victory over the New York Jets.
“It’s tough, and it’s not what we wanted”, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said of the Jets’ 23-22 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. And in the second quarter, Folk missed the first PAT of his career.
The rest of the way, he was 20 of 23 for 289 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions while getting sacked five more times. But on third-and-goal, Fitzpatrick misfired to Decker and the Jets had to settle for a 20-yard field goal by Folk.
“They’re going to catch balls”, Revis said. He had two completions of 54 yards, one for 49, and another for 32.
Perhaps this wouldn’t be so widely discussed if the Jets had just held on to the lead late in the game, or if Ryan Fitzpatrick had driven them down the field for a game-winning field goal.
The Bills only ran 160 yards and 11 first downs, two of their worst numbers for over a decade.
And then there was the HUGE drop by Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall who envisions himself to be everything A.J. Green is and he is not.
“We can’t feel sorry for ourselves or mope for too long because we’ve got one coming up in a few days”.
Forte had an excellent season opener for the Jets.
The defensive line was dominant, sacking Andy Dalton seven times.
The only scoring in the first quarter came with a Baltimore 50-yard field goal with just 50 seconds remaining in the period. “He was accurate in his throws and everything that way, and that’s what we need”. One of his sacks prevented Dalton from releasing a nicely set up screen pass that looked destined to gain big yardage, and the tackle on the end around also saved what looked like a huge gain. The Bills answered seven minutes later with a 1-yard run from McCoy, pulling to with three just before halftime. He extended plays with his feet, escaped sacks and had precision accuracy all over the field. He was sacked once and didn’t turn it over.
Darrelle Revis is still really good. Osweiler, who signed a $72 million contract from Denver in the offseason, was helped by an offense filled with playmakers. The biggest of his catches was a 64-yard deep ball that he took for a score.
Odell Beckham Jr. was targeted eight times by Manning and finished with four catches for 73 yards. On the ground, LeSean McCoy had 58 yards and a touchdown in 16 attempts.
Last year, Williams made a bunch of plays by powering through people or leaning on his brute strength and athleticism. Jalin Marshall refused to go down on the kick return, taking 65 yards to the Bengals 39.
Lewis spoke often this past week about it being an honor to open the season in NY on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks. Edwards had three punts with an average distance of 51.4 yards. Both teams then added field goals as the second quarter played out, going to the half with NY leading 16-13. This was an opportunity to start strong against NFL’s best. Garappolo completed 24 of 33 passes with no interceptions. Larry Fitzgerald lead the Cardinals with 8 receptions for 81 yards and two touchdowns. Not only were the Patriots without Brady, suspended for his role in Deflategate, but they also didn’t have tight end Rob Gronkowski, defensive end Rob Ninkovich and two starters on the offensive line.