The Jets went from 28 straight minutes with out gaining a primary right down to scoring a season-high 27 factors.
What modified?
Breece Corridor bought going.
After the Jets someway went 5 straight possessions with out transferring the sticks to begin Sunday’s recreation, Corridor ended the first-down drought with a 6-yard run after the two-minute warning, then rapidly adopted up with a 29-yard catch-and-run landing to breathe life right into a useless offense.
Corridor added a second landing within the third quarter to present the Jets a lead, but it surely nonetheless wasn’t sufficient in a 28-27 loss to the Colts.
“It’s fun to watch him because you have a feeling that if you make your block, it’s going to be the one that sends him into the end zone,” receiver Garrett Wilson mentioned. “It’s really that simple with him. It was cool to see him give us that spark we needed.”
The Jets trailed 13-7 on the half however led 14-13 after Javon Kinlaw’s fumble restoration fed into Corridor’s 18-yard landing run. His two scores got here simply 2:12 aside in recreation time.
“[The Colts] got out to a decent lead, and we tried to help recover,” Corridor mentioned. “The offense has to do our part in the first half so we don’t even give them a chance to come back in the second half.”
Corridor took the blame for the primary of 5 straight three-and-outs, when he didn’t convert a third-and-3.
The Jets had been booed by the house crowd earlier than every of their three first-quarter punts.
“I mixed the play up and kind of ran into the right guard,” Corridor mentioned. “That was kind of a drive-killer right there.”
Corridor greater than made up for his early miscue with a team-high 121 yards from scrimmage on 23 touches, together with seven receptions.
He palmed the ball as he dove for the entrance pylon and stayed in bounds on a crazy-athletic play on the finish of his landing scamper.
“He’s one of one,” Wilson mentioned. “It’s just whether it comes together on Sunday. It always does for him, it seems like. He does his part to make it come together.”
However the Jets curiously didn’t give Corridor a contact on a fourth-and-1 at their very own 39-yard line, selecting as a substitute to get tough with an under-center snap to tight finish Tyler Conklin, who was stuffed brief on his run.
That turnover on downs gifted the Colts a subject purpose as they jumped out to a 13-0 lead.
“We knew we were shooting ourselves in the foot,” Corridor mentioned. “We just kind of said, ‘Alright, let’s go. We already dug ourselves a hole. Let’s dig out of it.’ ”
All of it went for naught, nevertheless, when the Jets needed to accept a late subject purpose on the finish of a 13-play drive to go up 27-22 as a substitute of scoring a victory-sealing landing.
On the ultimate set of downs, Corridor was stopped for no achieve on first down and got here up 2 yards brief on a third-and-10 reception.
“It’s just frustrating because you make big plays but you don’t win,” Corridor mentioned, “so it doesn’t matter.”
