By James Boyd, Zack Rosenblatt and Cale Clinton
After a two-week benching behind Joe Flacco, Anthony Richardson led the way in which within the Indianapolis Colts’ comeback 28-27 victory over the New York Jets on Sunday. The Colts (5-6) snap a three-game shedding streak because the Jets (3-8) proceed to search for solutions in what’s shortly starting to really feel like a misplaced season.
Richardson’s first recreation again because the starter was a milestone afternoon for the second-year quarterback. He threw for a career-high 272 passing yards and a passing landing on his greatest completion share (66.7 p.c) in a recreation the place he tried at the least 20 passes. Richardson added 32 yards and two scores on 10 dashing makes an attempt, his first recreation with a number of dashing touchdowns since Week 2 of the 2023 season. Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Jets is Richardson’s first recreation with three mixed touchdowns.
The Colts started to run away with the sport within the first half, with the protection holding the Jets offense to 5 straight three-and-outs within the first half. New York lastly awoke simply exterior the two-minute warning of the primary half, with Aaron Rodgers main a seven-play, 76-yard landing drive off huge positive factors from Davante Adams and Breece Corridor. The Jets offense seemed to search out its rhythm, scoring on 4 of their first 5 drives of the second half. Corridor led the Jets with 78 dashing yards and an extra 43 receiving yards, scoring a dashing landing and receiving landing.
It was the Jets’ protection, nonetheless, that ended up in the end letting the Colts again within the recreation. Down 24-16, Indianapolis closed the afternoon with back-to-back 70-yard landing drives. The Colts’ last drive of the sport was highlighted by a 39-yard connection to Alec Pierce that flipped the sphere for the Colts’ offense and arrange Richardson’s eventual game-winning landing run. The play helped Richardson safe his second profession game-winning drive.
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Anthony Richardson is again
The 2023 No. 4 decide returned from his two-week benching Sunday in opposition to the Jets with a clutch displaying. Trailing 27-22 with 2:41 left within the recreation and all three timeouts in his pocket, Richardson related with Pierce for a 39-yard TD reception to carry Indianapolis to New York’s 27-yard line simply earlier than the two-minute warning. On the very subsequent play, Richardson delivered a move to Josh Downs for a 17-yard achieve.
Richardson capped off the drive with a 4-yard TD run that proved to be the game-winner. The second-year professional completed 20-of-30 passing for 272 yards and one TD, and he notched two dashing TDs in his seventh begin of the 12 months. He’s now 4-3 as QB1 this season and 6-5 in his profession. — James Boyd, Colts beat author
Colts D bounces again late
Indianapolis dominated the Jets’ offense early, limiting New York to simply 27 yards and nil first downs on its first 5 drives. When the Jets lastly broke via and picked up a primary down with slightly below two minutes left within the first half, the followers at MetLife Stadium responded with sarcastic cheers. However a number of moments later, Jets followers had been cheering for actual after Corridor’s 29-yard TD reception that minimize Indianapolis’ result in 13-7 simply earlier than the break.
That jolt of life carried over into the second half as Corridor scored once more following Richardson’s fumble. Nevertheless, the Colts obtained the final snicker as defensive finish Kwity Paye sacked Rodgers to seal the victory and snap Indianapolis’ three-game shedding streak. — Boyd
A full-on collapse by Sauce Gardner, Jets D
The Jets took a five-point lead with 2:41 left. All they wanted was their protection — purported to be one of many NFL’s greatest — to cease an offense led by a younger quarterback who was lately benched. As an alternative, Sauce Gardner and Jalen Mills left Pierce large open for the 39-yard achieve, which arrange Richardson’s landing run.
The Jets obtained the ball again on the following drive, and catastrophe ensued, because it usually does for the Jets. Rodgers fumbled the ball away and the Jets recovered, killing many of the clock — they’d no timeouts, both. The Jets then accomplished a move to the center of the sphere, the Colts had been referred to as for delay of recreation after which Rodgers was sacked to finish issues. — Zack Rosenblatt, Jets beat author
Are Jets daring sufficient to bench Rodgers?
Rodgers completed the afternoon 22-of-29 for 184 yards and a pair of passing touchdowns. He continues a 33-game streak with no 300-yard passing recreation, the longest energetic streak within the NFL. His 6.4 yards per try this 12 months is the bottom mark of his profession, whereas his 4.3 p.c landing charge and 44.4 success charge are second-worst and third-worst marks as a full-time starter. Regardless of his 33 profession game-winning drives, his fumble-dump-off-sack sequence within the last drive killed any probability of giving the Jets a shot at a discipline purpose.
Now the Jets are 3-8, and it’s truthful to marvel at what level they are going to be prepared to show to Tyrod Taylor to switch a 41-year-old quarterback who’s each unwilling to throw the ball downfield and incapable of pumping any form of power into a dull offense. This season has been a catastrophe on all ranges, however the vivid aspect is that at the least the Jets can’t lose subsequent week. — Rosenblatt
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