For nine months they heard how this season would be a total disaster. For nine months they heard how they didn't have enough NFL talent to even win a professional football game this year. That might all be true, but for at least one week, the Jets can celebrate the fact that they are undefeated and in first place.
While it is likely down hill from here for Gang Green, they gutted out a 18-17 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccanners in their season opener.
Geno Smith, who heard for weeks that he wasn't ready to take an NFL field, looked pretty good. He completed 24 of 38 passes for 256 yards with a touchdown and one interception, and led his team on a game winning drive in the waning seconds of the game.
With the Bucs up 17-15, after Ryan Lindell connected on a field goal with 34 seconds to go, it was easy to think that Jets would lose a heartbreaker in one of the few winnable games on their schedule. Fortunately Geno Smith didn't get the memo.
He completed a 25-yard pass to Kellen Winslow to the Jets 45, and later scrambled out of the pocket for 10 yards, before he was pushed hard out of bounds for a 15-yard penalty on the Bucs to set up Nick Folk with a long 48-yard field goal with two seconds to play.
Folk who has never been automatic, connected, putting it through the uprights to give the Jets a hard earned 18-17 win.
Defensively the Jets played well. They sacked Josh Freeman three times, including forcing him to fumble the bal in the end zone to give the Jets a 2-0 lead. While, the held the powerful Doug Martin to just 65-yards rushing.
As for Darrelle Revis, his return was a mute point. He had a couple of deflected passes and one tackle in his first game since injuring his knee last year. For all of those who put money on Revis picking a part the Jets passing game -- they lost a lot of cash.
The Jets (1-0) take on the Patriots (1-0) on Thursday night in Foxboro.
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