NEW YORK JETS DAILY CLIPS September 15, 2014 Table of Contents ASSOCIATED PRESS ................................................................................................................................................ 2 Jets blow 18-point lead, fall 31-24 to Packers (Genaro C. Armas) ............................................................................2 Rodgers, Packers roar back to beat Jets 31-24 (Genaro C. Armas) ...........................................................................3 NEWSDAY .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Just another chapter in the 'Same Old Jets' saga (Bob Glauber) ...............................................................................5 Packers' Jordy Nelson burns Jets' secondary (Rob Reischel) .....................................................................................7 Muhammad Wilkerson apologizes for ejection (Kimberley Martin) .........................................................................8 Jets grades: Two C's and two C minuses (Kimberley Martin) ....................................................................................9 Timeout wipes out tying score in Jets' loss to Packers (Kimberley Martin) ..............................................................9 THE RECORD ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Jets notes: Wilkerson gets tossed after losing his cool (J.P. Pelzman) ....................................................................11 Jets replay vs. Packers (J.P. Pelzman) ......................................................................................................................12 Phantom timeout costs Jets in 31-24 loss to Packers (J.P. Pelzman) ......................................................................13 STAR-LEDGER ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Eric Decker unsure about severity of hamstring injury sustained in Jets-Packers (Darryl Slater) ...........................14 Sheldon Richardson blames himself for timeout in Jets-Packers, but it was Marty Mornhinweg's error (Darryl Slater) ......................................................................................................................................................................14 NEW YORK POST .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Rex knows about bad timeouts (Brian Costello) .....................................................................................................17 Muhammad Wilkerson: ‘I just lost my cool’ (Howie Kussoy) ..................................................................................17 ‘We just handed it to them': Jets secondary is not happy (Howie Kussoy) .............................................................18 Report card: One D+ may haunt Jets for a long time (Brian Costello) ....................................................................19 Gang’s loss not Richardson’s ‘fault’ (Mike Vaccaro) ...............................................................................................20 Jets negate own TD, drop absolute heartbreaker to Pack (Brian Costello) .............................................................22 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Rex Ryan won't rip NY Jets secondary, tips cap to Aaron Rodgers (Seth Walder) ..................................................23 NY Jets not short on people to blame in meltdown loss to Packers (Manish Mehta) ............................................24 Mo Wilkerson apologizes to NY Jets teammates after fight gets him ejected vs. Packers (Manish Mehta)..........26 Timeout nullifies would-be tying score for NY Jets vs. Packers, epic meltdown leads to 31-24 loss (Seth Walder) .................................................................................................................................................................................26 NEW YORK TIMES ................................................................................................................................................ 28 Jets Build an 18-Point First-Half Lead, Which Aaron Rodgers Duly Vaporizes (Ben Shpigel) ..................................28 WALL STREET JOURNAL ....................................................................................................................................... 29

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Daily Clips Cont. Terrible Timeout: Jets Find a Cruel New Way to Lose (Stu Woo) ............................................................................29 ESPN NEW YORK .................................................................................................................................................. 31 Timeout fiasco leads to a 'Same Old Jets' loss for the ages (Rich Cimini) ...............................................................31 Rapid Reaction: New York Jets (Rich Cimini) ...........................................................................................................33 NJ.COM ................................................................................................................................................................ 33 Jets-Packers: What led to Muhammad Wilkerson getting ejected (Dom Cosentino) .............................................33 Instant analysis from the Jets' loss 31-24 to the Packers, which began with a bang (Dom Cosentino) ..................35 METRO NEW YORK .............................................................................................................................................. 36 3 things we learned in Jets loss to Packers (Kristian Dyer)......................................................................................36 SUNDAY’S SPORTS TRANSACTIONS...................................................................................................................... 37

ASSOCIATED PRESS Jets blow 18-point lead, fall 31-24 to Packers (Genaro C. Armas) Associated Press September 14, 2014 http://pro32.ap.org/article/jets-blow-18-point-lead-fall-31-24-packers GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — For a moment, it seemed as if the New York Jets had tied the Green Bay Packers. Touchdown — Jeremy Kerley on a 37-yard pass on fourth down from Geno Smith with about 5 minutes left to the game. One problem: Somebody on the Jets' sideline called timeout just before the snap to negate the play. A last-ditch pass on fourth-and-8 with 3:31 left to a double-covered Kerley in the end zone was tipped away. The Packers completed their comeback from an 18-point deficit to beat New York 31-24 in their home opener. "We can't take those things back," Smith said. "That happened. As a player, as a quarterback, you still want to go down there and score a touchdown and we failed to get that done." There was confusion initially over who called time. Later defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson said he was to blame because he leaned over to tell the referee when he saw offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg calling for time. "I just know for a fact I did not call the timeout," coach Rex Ryan said. Regardless, the Jets had other problems. Aaron Rodgers threw for three touchdowns and Jordy Nelson had a career-high 209 yards receiving. The Packers (1-1) held on to avoid their first 0-2 start since 2006. Randall Cobb caught two short scoring strikes and a 2-point conversation that gave the Packers a 24-21 lead in the third quarter. Rodgers finished 25 of 42 with 346 yards, Nelson had nine catches and Cobb finished with five catches for 39 yards. Green Bay went up 31-24 late in the third quarter when Nelson worked a double move on Dee Milliner for an 80-yard touchdown catch. The Packers then had the lead for good. 2|Page

Daily Clips Cont. "Well, pretty impressive. Take it for granted sometimes. He's not a big 'me' guy ... so he kind of gets overlooked sometimes," Rodgers said about Nelson. Just a couple of hours earlier, it looked as if the home crowd was going to witness a surprising loss. Chris Ivory barreled up the middle for a 4-yard score at 10:38 of the second quarter that left the fans in stunned silence with the Packers down 21-3. Slowly, but surely, the offense started chipping away. Then, the defense came up with some big stops late. Clay Matthews tipped away a pass by Smith on first down to start one three-and-out drive by the Jets in the fourth quarter. Eric Decker departed with a hamstring injury early in the fourth, depriving Smith of his top receiving target. The Jets tried backup Michael Vick at quarterback on one play, but he was taken down from behind in the open by Matthews for a sack. That drive ended with the pass breakup on Kerley in the end zone. "We got a chance to put our foot on their throats down in the red zone and we don't do so," Smith said. He finished 16 of 32 for 176 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Decker had four catches for 63 yards, while Ivory led the Jets on the ground with 13 carries and 43 yards. The Packers' comeback started with a 13-point flurry in the final 5:43 of the first half. Mason Crosby hit field goals from 20 and 55 yards, the latter setting a Packers record at Lambeau Field. Then, the Packers got the defensive break they desperately needed when Tramon Williams stepped in front of tight end Zach Sudfeld for an interception at the Packers 3. "We all played it out, and we got in a rhythm offensively and defensively," Williams said. "But you never want to come out that flat, you never expect to come out that flat, but we did and we found a way to get through it." Rodgers followed with 10-play, 97-yard drive in 1:44 that ended with a 6-yard scoring strike to Cobb to get the Packers within five at the half. Until then, it was second-year quarterback Smith who was having success. He connected with Decker for a 29-yard touchdown on pretty touch pass over cornerback Shields for an early 14-0 lead. That score was set up by a 37-yard run by Kerley on a read-option pitch from Smith. The Jets' running game looked like as though it couldn't be stopped. But the Packers defense adjusted — and Rodgers, Nelson and Cobb took over from there. NOTES: The Jets finished with 312 yards in total offense, but only 100 after halftime. ... New York had four sacks, including two from LB Demario Davis. ... Nelson had the fourth touchdown catch of 80 or more yards in his career, tying the franchise record held by Greg Jennings. Back_to_Top Rodgers, Packers roar back to beat Jets 31-24 (Genaro C. Armas) Associated Press September 14, 2014 http://pro32.ap.org/article/rodgers-packers-roar-back-beat-jets-31-24 GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — In the middle of the chaotic and victorious Green Bay Packers locker room, Randall Cobb yelled out a new nickname for Jordy Nelson. 3|Page

Daily Clips Cont. "Mr. 200!" Cobb exclaimed. More like a career-high 209 yards receiving for Green Bay's top receiver, including one long touchdown catch in crunch time. Aaron Rodgers threw for three scores, including an 80-yard strike to Nelson in the third quarter, and the Packers roared back from an 18-point deficit to win their home opener 31-24 on Sunday over the New York Jets. "Well, pretty impressive. Take it for granted sometimes. He's not a big 'me' guy ... so he kind of gets overlooked sometimes," Rodgers said about Nelson. "We know the kind of player he is." So do the Jets after blowing a 21-3 lead early in the second quarter. Still, coach Rex Ryan's team had a chance to tie late. It looked as though that had happened with 5 minutes left on a 37-yard touchdown catch by Jeremy Kerley on fourth down — but it was negated because the Jets (1-1) called a timeout from the sideline just before the snap. Ryan said he didn't call time. He suspected it could have been offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg or quarterback Geno Smith. Defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson said he was to blame because he leaned over to tell the referee when he saw Mornhinweg calling for time. "I just know for a fact I did not call the timeout," Ryan said. "We can't take those things back," Smith said. "That happened. As a player, as a quarterback, you still want to go down there and score a touchdown and we failed to get that done." Smith's last-ditch pass on fourth-and-8 with 3:31 left to a double-covered Kerley was tipped away. The 78,000-plus fans at Lambeau Field breathed a collective sigh of relief, and the Packers held the ball from there. "It is my responsibility," Ryan said when asked about the Jets' meltdown. "I have to do a better job." Green Bay (1-1) avoided its first 0-2 start since 2006. It took a little while to get going, though. Rodgers fumbled away the snap on the first play of the opening series. The Jets scored on their first three drives. Slowly, but surely, the offense started chipping away. Then, the defense came up with some big stops late. Eric Decker departed with a hamstring injury early in the fourth, depriving Smith of his top receiving target. The Jets tried backup Michael Vick at quarterback on one play, but he was taken down from behind in the open by Clay Matthews for a sack. That drive ended with the pass breakup on Kerley in the end zone. "It's a game of adversity. It's a game of momentum swings. It's a game of big plays," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "We were in a spot, but our players stayed the course." Rodgers finished 25 of 42 with 346 yards, Nelson had nine catches and Cobb finished with five catches for 39 yards. Cobb caught two short scoring strikes and a 2-point conversation that gave the Packers a 24-21 lead in the third quarter. Green Bay went up 31-24 late in the third quarter when Nelson worked a double move on Dee Milliner for the 80-yard score.

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Daily Clips Cont. Nelson ran and out-and-up route. With the safety coming over late to help, Nelson beat out Jets defenders in a footrace to the end zone. "We just messed up at the end," Milliner said. Just a couple of hours earlier, it looked as if the home crowd was going to witness a surprising loss. Chris Ivory barreled up the middle for a 4-yard score at 10:38 of the second quarter that left the fans in stunned silence with the Packers down 21-3. "The momentum came when we stopped them and started making plays and got off the field and got off on the third down," Packers linebacker Jamari Lattimore said. Smith finished 16 of 32 for 176 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Decker had four catches for 63 yards, while Ivory led the Jets on the ground with 13 carries and 43 yards. The Packers' comeback started with a 13-point flurry in the final 5:43 of the first half, including field goals from 20 and 55 yards by Mason Crosby. The latter kick set a Packers record at home. Then, the Packers got the defensive break they desperately needed when Tramon Williams stepped in front of tight end Zach Sudfeld for an interception at the Packers 3. "You never want to come out that flat, you never expect to come out that flat, but we did and we found a way to get through it," Williams said. Rodgers followed with 10-play, 97-yard drive in 1:44 that ended with a 6-yard score to Cobb to get the Packers within five at the half. Notes: The Jets finished with 312 yards in total offense, but only 100 after halftime. ... New York had four sacks, including two from LB Demario Davis. ... Nelson had the fourth touchdown catch of 80 or more yards in his career, tying the franchise record held by Greg Jennings. ... Nelson's 209 yards were the most by a Packer since Don Beebe had 220 against San Francisco in 1996. ... Crosby has hit 18 straight regularseason field goals dating to last year. Back_to_Top

NEWSDAY Just another chapter in the 'Same Old Jets' saga (Bob Glauber) Newsday September 14, 2014 http://www.newsday.com/sports/columnists/bob-glauber/just-another-chapter-in-the-same-old-jetssaga-1.9312665 The glass-half-full version of the Jets' 31-24 loss to the Packers goes something like this: They got off to a terrific start against a Super Bowl-caliber opponent on the road, looking as if they deserved to be considered a playoff contender the way Geno Smith's offense was humming along and Rex Ryan's defense was smothering Aaron Rodgers & Co. And despite a series of unfortunate moments, they still were within one score of the Packers, just missing a chance near the end to tie it. The glass-half-empty version goes like this: How in the world do you squander a 21-3 lead on the road, let Rodgers find his rhythm after looking so helpless through much of the first half, and then blow a golden opportunity in the second half? How do you come away with so many "Same Old Jets" moments in one afternoon, enough to fill a chapter in the long and sordid history of that phrase that so many loyal fans have repeated so many times before? 5|Page

Daily Clips Cont. For a team that fashions itself as a likely participant in the postseason tournament, the Jets looked like anything but in squandering a huge lead through a series of mystifying mistakes, bumbling decisions and overall ineptitude that simply boggled the mind. After a start that was mostly brilliant, with the Jets getting all three tailbacks involved in the offense, with Smith finding his groove early and with the defense having all the answers for Rodgers, the Jets came apart at the seams in alarming fashion. They lost their composure. They turned the ball over. For goodness sake, they couldn't even call a timeout without calamity ensuing. Where do we begin? How about late in the second quarter, with the Jets in control with a 21-9 lead. They're at their 48 with 3:12 to play and reach the Packers' 27 on a 14-yard pass from Smith to Tommy Bohanon. Two minutes left, and here's a chance to run the clock down and keep the ball away from Rodgers. Nope. Offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg is feeling full of himself. He calls for a deep pass down the right side to tight end Zach Sudfeld. Smith is under a heavy rush, and he's hit just as he throws the pass. Sudfeld doesn't do Smith any favors by not coming back to the ball, which is underthrown because of the hit on Smith. So cornerback Tramon Williams steps in front and intercepts the pass at the Packers' 3 with 1:52 to play. Plenty of time for Rodgers to operate, and he drives the Packers 97 yards to make it 21-16 at halftime. Then it all unravels in the third quarter. Rodgers drives the Packers 67 yards for the go-ahead touchdown, and just as Randall Cobb goes into the end zone off a short pass, Jets defensive end Mo Wilkerson gets into it with several Packers, flailing his hands and fists at just about anyone in green and gold. Personal foul. Ejection. Inexcusable. Wilkerson has to be escorted off the field by two police officers, and with the Packers fans jeering, he simply smiles and raises his arms, exhorting the crowd to keep it up. Not a good look, sir. After the Jets tie it at 24, Rodgers puts the Packers ahead with a perfect strike down the right sideline to Jordy Nelson, who spins cornerback Dee Milliner around and escapes the grasp of rookie safety Calvin Pryor for an 80-yard touchdown. Still, there is a chance. Still, there is hope. When David Harris wraps his arms around the ball for an interception and returns it to the Packers' 20 with 32 seconds left in the third quarter, the Jets have yet another opportunity to make things right. Nope. They are called for 12 men on the field. Unbelievable. And then -- finally -- we come to the timeout that cost them the tying touchdown. On fourth-and-4 from the Packers' 36 with 5:06 to play, Smith hits Jeremy Kerley with what appears to be the tying TD pass, pending the extra point. Nope. The Jets called timeout before the play, so it doesn't count. It's just one more gigantic opportunity that slips through their hands. One more dreadful series of events that conspires to turn what could have been -- what should have been -- a transcendent performance in a huge early-season game into more mind-numbing misfortune from a franchise all too accustomed to these moments. Back_to_Top 6|Page

Daily Clips Cont. Packers' Jordy Nelson burns Jets' secondary (Rob Reischel) Newsday September 14, 2014 http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/green-bay-packers-jordy-nelson-burns-jets-secondary1.9312486 GREEN BAY, Wis. - There were no surprises. Nothing shocking or astonishing. The Packers' passing offense revolves around Jordy Nelson these days. But when the upstart Jets couldn't stop Nelson Sunday, that ruined their chances of pulling off an upset. The 6-3, 215-pound Nelson had a day that rivals any by a wide receiver in the 94-year history of this storied franchise. He caught nine passes for a career-high 209 yards and helped the Packers rally from an 18-point first-half deficit to turn back the Jets, 31-24. Nelson's 80-yard touchdown reception late in the third quarter broke a 24-all tie and was the eventual game-winner. He also had a 15-yard reception on third-and-3 with two minutes left that allowed the Packers to run out the clock. "It's fun, it's enjoyable," said Nelson, a seven-year veteran who signed a four-year, $39-million contract extension in July. "It's what I guess needed to be done to win the game. That's all that matters." The Jets were rolling early and built a 21-3 lead with 10:38 left in the second quarter. And considering the largest comeback victory ever engineered by Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was 14 points, the Jets appeared to be in terrific shape. But Nelson helped change all of that. He had 124 receiving yards in the third quarter alone. Rodgers heated up with three TD passes and a quarterback rating of 109.8, and Green Bay allowed only three points in the final 40 minutes. "We didn't bring a lot of energy to the start of that game," Rodgers said. "[We] showed some toughness, some character . . . and got things rolling." Nelson was a huge reason why. The play of the game came with 2:21 left in the third quarter and the score tied at 24. The Packers lined up on their 20-yard line with two in-line tight ends, an I-backfield and Nelson as the lone receiver. Rodgers ran a play-action fake to running back Eddie Lacy. Nelson, who was lined up wide right, ran a double- move. Cornerback Dee Milliner bit on Nelson's out route, and Nelson raced past him. Rodgers delivered a strike to Nelson at midfield, then Nelson made rookie safety Calvin Pryor miss and outran a trailing Milliner for an 80-yard touchdown. "Some of that was he's a great player and some of it was we just gave it to him," Milliner said. "I'm not taking anything away from him. He's a great receiver and he did great things for them today." Nelson's 209 receiving yards tied for the fourth most in franchise history with Hall of Famer Don Hutson. Nelson became the first Packer to eclipse 200 yards in a decade, and he produced a remarkable 60.4 percent of Green Bay's receiving yards. No matter what the Jets tried, Nelson and the Packers had an answer. "Jordy spoils us," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "He plays that way all the time. He practices the same way. He's just a clutch, clutch player." 7|Page

Daily Clips Cont. Something the Jets found out the hard way. Back_to_Top Muhammad Wilkerson apologizes for ejection (Kimberley Martin) Newsday September 14, 2014 http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/muhammad-wilkerson-apologizes-for-ejection1.9312482 What was Muhammad Wilkerson's reaction to his ejection? The defensive lineman didn't hide from the cameras. Instead, Wilkerson stood in the hallway outside the visitor's locker room at Lambeau Field and accepted responsibility for his actions. A skirmish broke out in the end zone after Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers connected with Randall Cobb on a two-point conversion. Wilkerson and teammate Sheldon Richardson were in the middle of the fracas, and Wilkerson was thrown out after swinging repeatedly at opposing players. "Guys' hands were in my face, so I was using my hands to get their hands out of my face," he explained. "At the end of the day, I lost my cool and I let my emotions get the best of me. "It happened so fast. I don't know which player it was, but I can't do that. I let my teammates down. We're a family here. I let everybody down. I apologized to everybody in the locker room. I'm a leader of this team, and that's just not the way I'm supposed to act." Richardson said his facemask was grabbed after he pulled a Packers lineman off safety Dawan Landry. That, he said, started the melee. "[Mo] threw a punch. Can't do that, but we most definitely protected our own players," Richardson said, adding that a Packers player had his hands around Landry's neck. "I know Mo. We don't go for that at all. You put your hands on our teammates, we most definitely will put our hands on y'all. "He feels bad about it. Me as well. We let the team down. Just can't let it happen again." Rookie safety Calvin Pryor said the team is behind Wilkerson: "He apologized after [coach Rex Ryan] talked. We all understand. Each and every Sunday, we're going to battle for each other. Mo fought. He was just trying to back up his brothers, which he should. That's what happens. He has a passion and a love for the game. That's the way it's supposed to be." How is Eric Decker? The Jets' top receiver had a great day production-wise until he aggravated a right hamstring injury in the third quarter and did not return. It's the same hamstring he tweaked in training camp. "It was a deep ball, running a post route," said Decker, who caught four passes for 63 yards, including a 29-yard touchdown -- his first as a Jet -- to give them a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. "Just made a cut. It got real sore. Tried to move around," Decker said. "I didn't think I was going to be effective going back in . . . All I was going to do was slow everybody down." How did Dee Milliner fare in his 2014 debut? Milliner finally suited up, but it was clear the second-year cornerback wasn't 100 percent healthy. Antonio Allen and Darrin Walls started the game at the corners for the Jets and Milliner eventually was subbed in.

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Daily Clips Cont. Milliner was beaten badly on a double-move by Jordy Nelson, who scampered 80 yards for what proved to be the winning touchdown in the third quarter. He later asked to be taken out. "I felt good. I was moving around good," Milliner said. "Towards the end, it tightened up on me a little bit. I told [Allen] it would be better to go back in at the time because I felt like he could do better because I couldn't move like I wanted to."Asked about Nelson's big day, Milliner said: "Some of that was he's a great player and some of it was we just gave it to him. I'm not taking anything away from him. He's a great receiver and he did great things today." Back_to_Top Jets grades: Two C's and two C minuses (Kimberley Martin) Newsday September 14, 2014 http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/jets-grades-two-c-s-and-two-c-minuses-1.9312457 OFFENSE C Geno Smith started off great, completing 10 of 14 passes for 103 yards in the first half. He hit nine different receivers in the half, including Eric Decker, who caught his first Jets TD (a 29-yarder) in the first quarter. But their fast start was blunted by Smith's interception late in the half (Brian Winters was beaten on the play and Zach Sudfeld didn't fight for the ball) and conservative play-calling. Chris Johnson (21 yards on 12 carries) wasn't a factor. DEFENSE C- The unit did its job early but completely lost its way after the first quarter. Rex Ryan credited his team for its effort, but his defense kept the door open for the Packers, who rallied from a 21-3 second-quarter deficit. Jordy Nelson (nine catches, 209 yards) had his way against the Jets' secondary and Aaron Rodgers (25-for-42, 346 yards) threw three touchdown passes. Kyle Wilson was beaten for a score, as was Dee Milliner, who still isn't 100 percent because of an ankle injury. SPECIAL TEAMS C Nick Folk connected on a 52-yard field goal to tie the score at 24, but Ryan Quigley had a bad 35-yard punt and Saalim Hakim botched a kickoff to start the second half and finished with a 10.5-yard average on two returns. COACHING C- The play-calling was brilliant early, but Marty Mornhinweg keeps killing the offense's momentum with gadget plays designed for Michael Vick. Worse, Mornhinweg's decision to call a timeout late in the fourth quarter -- nullifying an apparent tying 36-yard touchdown reception by Jeremy Kerley on fourth down -was baffling. The Jets, however, didn't make him available after the game, so one can only speculate as to what he saw on the field. As he should, Ryan took the onus for the loss. Back_to_Top Timeout wipes out tying score in Jets' loss to Packers (Kimberley Martin) Newsday September 14, 2014 http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/green-bay-packers-aaron-rodgers-roar-back-to-beatnew-york-jets-1.9310718 GREEN BAY, Wis. - The momentum was theirs. All the Jets had to do was finish. 9|Page

Daily Clips Cont. But they not only squandered an 18-point lead but self-destructed in a 31-24 loss to the Packers on Sunday at Lambeau Field. The loss of star defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson (ejection) and No. 1 wide receiver Eric Decker (hamstring injury) hurt in the second half. But in the end, the Jets were done in by an innocent mistake by Sheldon Richardson, who simply was trying to help out his coaches. A potential tying 36-yard touchdown pass from Geno Smith to Jeremy Kerley on a fourth-and-4 was negated when offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg initially signaled for a timeout before the ball was snapped with 5:06 remaining. Richardson, however, didn't see Mornhinweg back off on the call and whispered "timeout'' in a game official's ear, resulting in the play's being called dead. "I let the team down,'' Richardson said in a near-empty locker room. "I could have given us another chance to keep fighting.'' Per team rules, Jets assistants are not permitted to speak after games -- which left Richardson and other players to field the questions about the bizarre ending to a winnable game. Richardson said he had "no idea'' why Mornhinweg tried to call timeout, but in the moment, the reason didn't matter. "I was just trying to help the team out as best as I can,'' he said. "It was fourth down in Lambeau Field and it was 80,000 screaming. They didn't hear Marty. So I made sure they heard him. It was my fault.'' The gaffe capped a head-scratching second-half performance by the Jets (1-1), who let the Packers (1-1) rally from a 21-3 deficit. But while Richardson's timeout call eradicated a touchdown, the Jets' total lack of discipline was really to blame. "Obviously, this is a rough one, to say the least,'' coach Rex Ryan said. "It's my responsibility. I've got to make sure we know exactly what our assignments are and how to play them. "It will get done. One thing I know about this team, this team's got heart. There is no question about it. The effort will be there and that's why I believe we can get it fixed.'' Wilkerson smiled and waved at the crowd as he left the field after his third-quarter ejection for throwing punches. But there was nothing funny about his departure or the Jets' inability to contain Jordy Nelson. He caught nine passes for 209 yards, including an 80-yarder for a touchdown that broke a 24-24 tie with 2:08 left in the third quarter. The game couldn't have started any better for the Jets, though. They led 14-0 after 6:36, and before long, they were up 21-3. Everything seemed to be clicking for the 81/2-point underdog. Tempers were simmering early and emotions boiled over after Aaron Rodgers (346 yards, three touchdown passes) hit Randall Cobb for a 1-yard touchdown with 5:45 left in the third that gave the Packers their first lead, 24-21. A skirmish broke out in the end zone after Rodgers connected with Cobb again on the two-point conversion. Richardson, in the middle of the action, was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Wilkerson, who also was hit with an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty, was thrown out. The Jets tied it at 24 on Nick Folk's 52-yard field goal, but Nelson delivered the dagger 13 seconds later. He beat cornerback Dee Milliner on a double-move, eluded rookie safety Calvin Pryor and easily scampered 80 yards to the end zone.

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Daily Clips Cont. The Jets, it appeared, were finished -- until Kerley caught a beautifully thrown pass from Smith for a 36yard score to apparently tie it. But little did Ryan know that Mornhinweg had run down the sideline signaling a timeout -- and that Richardson had made sure it was granted. "They said I called it. I never called it,'' Ryan said. Kerley said he could see coaches on the field with his peripheral vision, so he knew time had been called. He ran the route and caught the ball anyway. "I was a little upset. It's a touchdown, so I definitely wanted to get that,'' he said. "But I was upset I didn't make the last catch on the last play of the game. That was a ball I should've caught. "It's a tough loss, it's an upsetting loss. I think we were in the game the whole time. But we came out flat in the second half.'' Back_to_Top

THE RECORD Jets notes: Wilkerson gets tossed after losing his cool (J.P. Pelzman) The Record September 15, 2014 http://www.northjersey.com/sports/football/wilkerson-gets-tossed-after-losing-cool-1.1088087 GREEN BAY, Wis. — Star defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson was contrite after getting ejected from Sunday’s game in the third quarter. "I lost my cool," the fourth-year pro said. "I let my emotions get the best of me. It won’t happen again." Wilkerson was thrown out after a scuffle ensued following a successful two-point conversion that gave Green Bay a 24-21 lead with 5:45 left in the third quarter. He was called for an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty after apparently trying to slap the face of Green Bay tackle David Bakhtiari. "I was using my hands to get his hands out of my face," Wilkerson explained. Nevertheless, Wilkerson wasn’t trying to justify his actions. He said he apologized to his teammates afterward. "I’m supposed to be a leader," he said. "I let the team down." MILLINER STRUGGLES: Dee Milliner didn’t start Sunday, but he returned to action exactly five weeks after suffering a high ankle sprain that had sidelined him for the season opener. Maybe the second-year cornerback could have used another week. Milliner was beaten badly by Green Bay wide receiver Jordy Nelson on the 80-yard third-quarter touchdown that put the Packers ahead to stay. Milliner explained that Nelson "put on a double move. I bit [on the first move]. I tried to get to him. … He just got by me." Coach Rex Ryan said the plan was to rotate Milliner and starters Darrin Walls and Antonio Allen at the two cornerback slots. Milliner exited the game after allowing the long score, and said it was his decision to pull himself out because the ankle was stiffening up.

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Daily Clips Cont. DECKER EXITS: Wide receiver Eric Decker had four receptions for 63 yards, including a 29-yarder for a touchdown from Geno Smith in the first quarter. But he left the game with a hamstring injury in the third quarter and didn’t return. Decker said it was his right hamstring. That’s the same one that caused him to miss some time during the preseason. VICK SIGHTING: Backup quarterback Michael Vick was in for one play on the Jets’ final drive. With a first down at the Jets’ 45, he played quarterback and Smith lined up at wide receiver. Vick scrambled to his left, apparently to attempt a pass, but was sacked by Clay Matthews for a 3-yard loss. Back_to_Top Jets replay vs. Packers (J.P. Pelzman) The Record September 15, 2014 http://www.northjersey.com/sports/football/jets-replay-vs-packers-1.1088075 Turning point The Jets had a 21-9 second-quarter lead and were at the Green Bay 27 at the two-minute warning, but QB Geno Smith was hit by DE Mike Daniels as he threw the ball, and his fluttering pass was picked off by CB Tramon Williams at the Green Bay 3 with 1:52 to go in the half. The Packers capitalized with a 10-play, 97yard drive to cut the deficit to five with eight seconds to go in the half on Aaron Rodgers’ 6-yard pass to Randall Cobb. Star of the game Green Bay WR Jordy Nelson toasted the Jets’ beleaguered secondary for 209 yards on nine receptions. It was the most receiving yards by one player against the Jets during Rex Ryan’s six-year tenure as coach, and a career high for the seventh-year pro. His 80-yard third-quarter TD catch proved to be the eventual game-winner and his 15-yard reception iced the win. Costly mistakes On the first play from scrimmage, Rodgers botched a standard snap from C Corey Linsley, and DT Sheldon Richardson recovered for the Jets at the Green Bay 16, setting up a TD. … Jets LB David Harris had a thirdquarter interception of Rodgers nullified because the Jets had 12 men on the field. It appeared NT Damon Harrison was late getting off the field. … Jets CB Antonio Allen, who moved from safety last month, was flagged for a 27-yard pass interference penalty that set up a Green Bay field goal. Eye-catching Rodgers had a nifty 11-yard scramble to the Jets’ 5 in the second quarter, converting a third-and-10 situation. However, the Packers still settled for a field goal. … Smith made a similar escape for the Jets, evading a potential sack and completing a 20-yard pass to RB Bilal Powell to set up a 52-yard field goal by Nick Folk, tying the score at 24 in the third quarter. … Green Bay tried a squib onside kick in the second quarter, but WR Greg Salas recovered and returned it 8 yards for the Jets. Looking ahead The Jets (1-1) will host Chicago next Monday at 8:30 p.m. The Bears lost their opener to visiting Buffalo and played San Francisco on the road Sunday night. It will be the second of three consecutive games for the Jets against teams from the NFC North. Back_to_Top 12 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Phantom timeout costs Jets in 31-24 loss to Packers (J.P. Pelzman) The Record September 14, 2014 http://www.northjersey.com/sports/phantom-timeout-costs-jets-in-31-24-loss-to-packers-1.1087830 GREEN BAY, Wis. – In the Jets’ crazy history, this was one for the ages. After blowing an 18-point lead, he Jets were denied a chance to tie the score in the fourth quarter when an apparent 36-yard touchdown pass from Geno Smith to Jeremy Kerley didn’t count because the officials ruled the Jets’ sideline had called a timeout before the play began. The Jets converted on the next play, but were stopped on downs after that when Smith’s fourth-down pass from the 28, also intended for Kerley, was batted down. The Jets trailed by seven at the time. Green Bay (1-1) ran out the clock and held on for a 31-24 victory over the Jets (1-1) at Lambeau Field on Sunday. It was unclear who called the timeout. The Jets led 21-3 in the second quarter but didn’t score a touchdown after that, and Aaron Rodgers’ 80-yard scoring pass to Jordy Nelson in the third quarter proved to be the difference. Green Bay avoided what would have been its first 0-2 start since 2006. The Jets could not have asked for a better start. On the first play from scrimmage, Rodgers botched a standard snap from center Corey Linsley, and defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson recovered for the Jets at the Green Bay 16-yard-line. The Jets scored five plays later on a 1-yard bootleg around right end by Smith. It was set up by his 13-yard completion to Jeremy Kerley on third-and-11 from the Packers’ 17. On the scoring play, Richardson was lined up at fullback and went out on a pass pattern to the left, but Smith went the other way and scored untouched. The Jets scored touchdowns on long drives on their next two possessions, with a 31-yard field goal by Green Bay’s Mason Crosby sandwiched in between. Leading 7-0, the Jets went 84 yards in only six plays and scored on Smith’s perfect 29-yard pass to wideout Eric Decker, who badly beat cornerback Sam Shields. Decker later left the game with a hamstring injury and didn’t return. The biggest play on that drive was a gadget play on which wide receiver Kerley circled into the backfield and went 37 yards to the Green Bay 36 with an option pitch from Smith. After Green Bay’s three-pointer, the Jets drove 80 yards in 17 plays. This time, the payoff came on a 4yard run up the middle by Chris Ivory with 10:38 left in the first half, giving the Jets a 21-3 advantage. During the drive, the Jets went for it on fourth-and-2 from the Green Bay 30 and Smith completed a 7yard pass to Decker. The Jets converted three third downs and a fourth down on the march. Green Bay got a 20-yard field goal by Crosby to cut its deficit to 21-6 with 5:43 left in the half. Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy chose not to go for it on fourth and goal from the 2. Crosby nailed a 55-yarder on the Packers’ next possession, and New York led 21-9. The Jets were driving again at the two-minute warning, but Smith was hit by defensive end Mike Daniels as he threw the ball, and his fluttering pass was picked off by cornerback Tramon Williams at the Green Bay 3 with 1:52 to go in the first half. The Packers capitalized with a 10-play, 97-yard drive, and cashed in when Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for a 6-yard score. He beat nickel corner Kyle Wilson on the play with eight seconds left in the half, and Green Bay trailed 21-16 at halftime. On their second drive of the second half, the Packers moved 67 yards in eight plays and scored on Rodgers’ second TD pass to Cobb, a 1-yarder on third down. Rodgers then hit Cobb again for a two-point 13 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. conversion and a 24-21 lead with 5:45 left in the third quarter. Worse yet for the Jets, a scuffle broke out following the two-pointer and star defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson was ejected for throwing a punch. Still, the Jets briefly blunted the hosts’ momentum. Smith escaped a potential sack and hit Bilal Powell out of the backfield for 20 yards to set up 52-yard field goal by Nick Folk, tying the score at 24. But after Folk registered a touchback on the kickoff, Rodgers connected with Nelson for an 80-yard score. He beat cornerback Dee Milliner, who was making his season debut after missing the first game because of a sprained ankle. Nelson’s touchdown gave the Packers a 31-24 lead with 2:08 to go in the third quarter. Milliner then was benched in favor of Darrin Walls, who had started the game in his place. Back_to_Top

STAR-LEDGER Eric Decker unsure about severity of hamstring injury sustained in Jets-Packers (Darryl Slater) Star-Ledger September 14, 2014 http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2014/09/eric_decker_unsure_about_severity_of_hamstring_injury_s ustained_in_jets-packers.html GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Jets have an extra day of rest this week, before their Week 3 Monday night home game against the Bears. Their prized receiver, Eric Decker, will need the time, after leaving Sunday’s loss at the Packers with a right hamstring injury. It is the same hamstring that bothered Decker in training camp. He is not sure about the severity of the injury or if he will have an MRI examination. He said he expects to know at least a little more on Monday about the severity of the injury. “I’ve been running around a lot today, so it’s hard to gauge what it is,” he said after Sunday’s game. “I’m hurting right now, but we’ll see what it’s like (Monday).” Trainers massaged Decker’s hamstring after he tweaked it, but he was unable to return. Decker got hurt while running a deep post route in the third quarter. It was not the third-and-10 deep ball that he dove for early in the third quarter, and couldn’t come up with. Decker said his injury occurred on a drive after that, on a third-down play. “Just made a cut and got real sore and tried to move around,” Decker said. “Just didn’t think I was going to be effective to go back in. All I was going to do was slow everybody down.” Back_to_Top Sheldon Richardson blames himself for timeout in Jets-Packers, but it was Marty Mornhinweg's error (Darryl Slater) Star-Ledger September 14, 2014 http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2014/09/sheldon_richardson_blames_himself_for_late_timeout_in_j ets-packers_but_it_was_marty_mornhinwegs_mist.html GREEN BAY, Wis. – Sheldon Richardson’s voice is loud, noticeable and prominent – a hearty baritone with a tinge of a twang, from his St. Louis roots.

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Daily Clips Cont. The second-year defensive tackle is one of the most talkative players in the Jets’ locker room. He speaks often and he speaks loudly and he never shies from speaking his mind – or speaking, period, about almost any subject. (Last week, he piped up to say that one of his suits is not purple, as a reporter assumed, but rather, “oxblood” in color.) That makes what happened Sunday at Lambeau Field an even crueler twist for the Jets. One of their best players, Richardson, did what he does best. He opened his mouth. He spoke up. He took an assertive, aggressive role, not shying from a critical moment – some of the very reasons he earned the NFL’s Defensive Rookie of the Year award last season. He did all of those things – and it probably cost the Jets a chance to upset the Packers. At least that is how Richardson saw it, in the numbing moments after the Packers beat the Jets 31-24, in a game the Jets led 21-3 right up until 5:43 remained in the first half. The Packers roared back and led 31-24 with 5:06 left in the game. But the Jets were driving. And on fourthand-4 from the Packers’ 36-yard line, with 5:06 left, quarterback Geno Smith found a leaping Jeremy Kerley in the end zone for the tying touchdown. Lambeau fell silent. The Jets raised their arms and rejoiced. And then they stopped, and now everybody in this football cathedral was silent, save for curious murmurs. Because the play never happened – not officially, anyway. The officials determined that the Jets had called timeout before the ball was snapped. The touchdown would not count. The Jets wound up converting the fourth down on their next try. They ran four more plays after that, and couldn’t crack the end zone. Lambeau exhaled. The Jets’ heads spun. Their hopes for a 2-0 start, and a marquee victory, had just vanished. As the game clock ticked down, everybody in the stadium wondered what in the world had just happened. What happened, in this most bizarre of situations, was nothing abnormal. Not really. Sheldon Richardson simply opened his mouth and spoke up. When the Jets lined up for the fourth-and-4 play, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg stood at the 42-yard line, about 6 yards away from the side judge. For some reason, Mornhinweg decided he wanted to call timeout. (The Jets never make Mornhinweg available to reporters after games, and Sunday was no different.) Richardson noticed Mornhinweg asking for a timeout. But Richardson didn’t think the side judge could hear Mornhinweg. So Richardson took a couple steps up, toward the white-painted area on the edge of the sideline. Richardson leaned forward and spoke into the official’s right ear. Richardson asked for timeout. The side judge waved his arms and signaled for the timeout at almost the exact same time as Nick Mangold snapped the ball to Smith. Regardless of what happened on this play, the record would show that it never occurred – not officially, anyway. A video replay (which you can see at the bottom of this post) showed that, before the official waved his arms, Mornhinweg spread his own arms out and took a couple steps down the sideline, toward the official. Then the official turned to his left, and looked in Mornhinweg’s direction. The official did nothing. No timeout signal. Just a glance toward Mornhinweg. A split second later, Richardson spoke into the official’s ear. The official turned right, presumably because he heard Richardson, and acknowledged the request for a timeout. Jets head coach Rex Ryan was standing between Mornhinweg and Richardson on the sideline. Ryan made no gestures or obvious requests for a timeout, or to wave off a timeout request. Mornhinweg calls the 15 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. offensive plays, so this was his timeout call – at least initially. Then Mornhinweg apparently changed his mind and decided to let the play roll on. “I saw Marty calling the timeout and I was into the game,” Richardson said. “I knew it was crunch time. I didn’t know if he wanted the timeout or not. I just knew he called it. I helped him out a little bit. I whispered in the referee’s ear ‘timeout,’ and he called it before the ball was thrown. It’s just bad timing on my part. I feel like I let the team down. It just happens when you’re into the game like that, though.” But, Richardson, said, “By the time I was yelling to help them call timeout, I guess they were fine with the play. They wanted to go on with it. It just happens like that. A miscue on my part.” Right after the official waved his arms, Richardson knew Mornhinweg didn’t want the timeout, because Mornhinweg “looked at me like I shouldn’t have did it.” Despite Richardson shouldering all the blame for this miscue, none of it falls on him. It is the offensive coordinator’s job to be unmistakably decisive in a game’s most chaotic moments. Richardson was simply put in an unfortunate position by Mornhinweg changing his mind at the last minute about calling timeout. It was Mornhinweg’s indecision that cost the Jets this touchdown, not Richardson’s voice. Richardson said he wasn’t sure why Mornhinweg wanted the timeout. All Richardson heard were whistles blowing right as the play began – the surest sign that Mornhinweg’s initial timeout request, via Richardson, had gone through after all. Richardson did not want to speculate on what might have happened if he just kept his mouth shut. “Who knows?” he said. “I don’t do what-ifs.” But Richardson insisted he felt certain that the official would not have heard Mornhinweg’s timeout request, because he said they didn’t acknowledge it when Mornhinweg first asked for it. That’s why Richardson stepped up to assist. “It’s fourth down in Lambeau Field and there were 80,000 screaming fans,” Richardson said. “(The officials) didn’t hear Marty. So I made sure they heard him. It’s my fault.” Richardson’s play and vocal nature have helped the Jets far more than hurt them over the past seasonplus. Everybody in the organization recognizes this. After Richardson finished blaming himself, over and over, while talking to reporters in the locker room, he stepped into a side room. General manager John Idzik met him there, and offered him an encouraging pat on the back. “I was just trying to help the team out as best as I can,” Richardson had said moments earlier. “I ended up hurting them. What happened was I let the team down. I could’ve gave us another chance to keep fighting.” Richardson is an earnest young player, eager to please, equally willing to boast about his performances and criticize himself – unnecessarily – for his role in a botched, late-game play. This is not the first time Richardson assisted with a timeout call. He said he has shouted to the officials before when they didn’t see Ryan calling for a timeout. Richardson’s voice matters on this Jets team, and will for a long time coming. From now on, even though he deserves no blame for what unfolded late Sunday afternoon at Lambeau, this is one situation in which Richardson plans to remain quiet. “It’s not going to happen again,” Richardson said. Back_to_Top

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NEW YORK POST Rex knows about bad timeouts (Brian Costello) New York Post September 15, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/rex-knows-about-bad-timeouts/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jets coach Rex Ryan has been involved in bad timeouts before. In a situation that was very similar to Sunday when the Jets had a touchdown wiped out by a timeout called by Sheldon Richardson, who thought Marty Mornhinweg wanted it, Ryan once called a timeout as a Ravens’ assistant that led to a Patriots victory. In 2007, as the Patriots were marching toward 16-0, the Ravens had them down 24-20 with 1:48 left. On fourth-and-1, the Ravens stuffed a Tom Brady sneak attempt in what appeared to be New England’s last gasp. But Ryan, then Baltimore’s defensive coordinator, had called a timeout just before the snap because he believed the Ravens did not have the right personnel on the field. The Patriots won the game and Ravens head coach Brian Billick lost his job at the end of the year. Ryan referenced the play after Sunday’s 31-24 loss to Green Bay. “I’ve been involved in one of these before,” he said. Eric Decker scored his first touchdown as a Jet on Sunday, but it might be a little while before there is another one. The wide receiver left the game in the third quarter with a right hamstring injury. That is the same hamstring that bothered him in training camp and kept him out of a preseason game. Decker did not have much to say about the injury after the game. “We’ll see what it’s like tomorrow,” he said. Decker, who signed a five-year, $36 million deal with the Jets in March, caught four passes for 63 yards and the touchdown. Decker said the injury came on a third-down play when he was running a post route. He and Geno Smith nearly connected on a long pass in the third quarter but a diving Decker just missed it. He said it was not that play. Center Nick Mangold had an X-ray after the game, but said it was just “maintenance.” Mangold exited the locker room with a heavy ice wrap around his right shoulder. Packers WR Jordy Nelson had 209 receiving yards, the most the Jets have allowed to a receiver since Ryan became head coach. Wes Welker had 192 yards in a 2009 game. … QB Michael Vick only played two plays. He lined up as a slot receiver on one play and was sacked on another. … Richardson left the game briefly with what looked like a lower leg injury, but returned quickly. … The inactive players for the Jets were: WR Walter Powell, S Josh Bush, LB Ikemufuna Enemkpali, OL Dakota Dozier, OT Ben Ijalana and NT T.J. Barnes. Back_to_Top Muhammad Wilkerson: ‘I just lost my cool’ (Howie Kussoy) New York Post September 15, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/muhammad-wilkerson-i-just-lost-my-cool/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Muhammad Wilkerson melted down, just as the Jets did. 17 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. In the third quarter of Sunday’s 31-24 loss to the Packers, just after the Jets had given away the last of their 18-point lead, Wilkerson uncharacteristically erupted, making sure he wouldn’t be part of the comeback attempt after getting ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct for throwing punches at Green Bay left guard Josh Sitton. As the Lambeau crowd cheered the ejection, Wilkerson waved to the fans and asked for more, maintaining a wide smile as he walked to the locker room. “I just felt like guys’ hands were in my face,” Wilkerson said. “I was using my hands to get them out of the face. At the end of the day, I lost my cool. I let my emotions get the best of me. “Everything happened so fast. I don’t know what player it was, but I can’t do that. I let my teammates down. We’re a family here and I let everybody down. I apologized to everybody in the locker room. My actions, I can’t do that. I’m a leader of this team. That’s just not the way I’m supposed to act.” The Packers had just scored on a two-point conversion, taking a 24-21 lead with 5:45 left in the third quarter, when a scrap broke out between the teams. Sheldon Richardson, who was also flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, said a Packers’ player was choking Jets safety Dawan Landry, leading to the Jets’ retaliation. “I was surprised we were the only ones who got a flag,” Richardson said. “Seeing one of my teammates get wrapped around the throat, I don’t go for that at all. I don’t care who the opponent is, no matter what the consequences are. This is a family and I was looking after my brothers. Mo followed suit and we got to control our actions a little bit. “Guy threw a punch, can’t do that, but we most definitely protect our own players. You put your hands on our teammates, we’re definitely gonna put our hands on y’all. We don’t go for that. I know [Wilkerson] feels bad about it, me as well. We let the team down. We can’t let it happen again.” Rex Ryan sympathized with Wilkerson, but hoped he wouldn’t see another such situation again this season. “Nobody feels worse than Mo does,” Rex Ryan said. “He’s apologized to the team about it. He feels bad that he let his team down. It’s an emotional game. Having something like that, taking a swing. “There’s no excuses for it. In the heat of the battle, it was intense. We knew it would be, but we’ve got to keep our cool in those situations.” Back_to_Top ‘We just handed it to them': Jets secondary is not happy (Howie Kussoy) New York Post September 15, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/we-just-handed-it-to-them-jets-secondary-is-not-happy/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Damage was going to be inflicted. It was only a matter of how devastating the onslaught would be. After easing into the season with a home game against rookie Derek Carr and the Raiders, the Jets’ suspect secondary faced the Packers’ prolific passing attack. For Aaron Rodgers, it was like dropping Cookie Monster into the Chips Ahoy factory. Despite being spotted an 18-point lead, the Jets’ secondary slowly eroded, until it completely evaporated, surrendering the lead and the game after allowing 346 yards passing and three touchdowns to Rodgers in a 31-24 loss on Sunday at Lambeau Field. 18 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. “It is deflating,” Jets cornerback Antonio Allen said. “We had the momentum, we were making third-down stops and doing everything right. [Rodgers] got a couple short throws, got in rhythm and we weren’t able to get him out of the rhythm.” Rodgers was out of sync early, fumbling the first snap of the game and failing to lead a touchdown drive for nearly the entire first half as the Packers fell behind 21-3, but the former MVP soon turned his attention to Allen. After several failed attempts to stop star receiver Jordy Nelson, Allen was beaten by Davante Adams for 24 yards on a third-and-10 late in the first half, setting up a Rodgers touchdown pass to Randall Cobb with 15 seconds left. “Sometimes, I felt like we weren’t as aggressive as we should’ve been,” rookie safety Calvin Pryor said. “I feel like we gave them cheap stuff at times. We just handed it to them and they took what we gave them.” Nelson took whatever he wanted, not what the Jets gave him. Targeted 16 times, Nelson made a mockery of every matchup and took turns embarrassing the muchmaligned secondary, finishing with nine catches and a career-high 209 yards. It was the most individual receiving yards Rex Ryan’s defense has allowed since he took over the Jets in 2009. Though Ryan called Nelson “Jerry Rice out there,” his secondary wasn’t as impressed with the sensational show. “He’s all right,” Allen said. “He’s a decent athlete, got out there and did what he had to do to help his team to win.” Former first-round pick Dee Milliner, eased into action in his return from an ankle injury, didn’t line up with Nelson until the third quarter, at which point the Packers’ receiver made two quick catches to set up Rodgers’ second touchdown pass to Cobb, giving the Packers their first lead, 24-21, with 5:45 left in the third. Even when the Jets tied the game and ended the string of 21 unanswered points with a Nick Folk field goal, the Packers needed only one play to regain the lead, with Nelson burning Milliner on a double-move for an 80-yard touchdown with 2:08 left in the third quarter. “They ran an out-and-up, and when he ran the out, I just broke on it and he went up the field,” said Milliner, who left the game late because his ankle tightened up, though he said he is fine. “There were no surprises. They did everything that they did on film and that we expected them to do.” Knowing what was coming wasn’t nearly enough. Back_to_Top Report card: One D+ may haunt Jets for a long time (Brian Costello) New York Post September 15, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/report-card-one-d-may-haunt-jets-for-a-long-time/ Offense This was two different games, especially for the offense. The unit was rolling in its first three drives, scoring touchdowns in each of them, but they went into a shell in the second half. They only had 100 yards in the second half. QB Geno Smith (16-of-32 passing, 176 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) looked great early, but his interception before the half changed the game. The running game had 146 yards, but never did much damage. 19 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Grade: BDefense This grade might be harsh, but the defense really let this one slip away. Packers WR Jordy Nelson (9 receptions, 209 yards, 1 TD) looked like he was Don Hutson. The secondary was terrible as Rex Ryan rotated cornerbacks, looking for one who could stop someone. The run defense was strong, but it did not matter. QB Aaron Rodgers (25-of-42 passing, 346 yards, 3 TDs) picked the Jets apart in the second half. Grade: D+ Special teams Kicker Nick Folk nailed a 52-yard field goal, but other than that this group did not do much. KR Saalim Hakim bobbled one return and had no gain on the play, giving the Jets the ball at the 5. Punter Ryan Quigley averaged 46.6 yards per punt, but that was inflated by a 56-yarder. He remains too inconsistent. Heads-up play by Greg Salas fielding a surprise onside kick. Grade: C Coaching Ryan has an undisciplined team and it bit him in the butt Sunday. The Jets came unraveled as the Packers mounted their comeback. No one was worse than DE Muhammad Wilkerson, who got thrown out of the game. Ryan needed to keep his team composed. Offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg called a great game early, but went way too conservative in the second half. Where was the creativity he showed early in the game? He also got away from the run. Ryan had no answer for Rodgers after some initial success. Grade: C Back_to_Top Gang’s loss not Richardson’s ‘fault’ (Mike Vaccaro) New York Post September 14, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/14/gangs-loss-not-richardsons-fault/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — If you are lucky — and I use that term both loosely and ironically — then perhaps you go back to the originator, to the Heidi Game. Maybe you didn’t realize it then — the Jets did go on to win the Super Bowl seven weeks later, after all — but that was the start of something. Call it an ill wind. Call it a dark cloud. Call it Indi-Jets-ion. But you know it’s there, always lurking. Players come, players go. Coaches, executives, PR flacks — they come, they swear there is no such wind, no such cloud, they sneer at the sheer silliness of it all, they go. And yet every few years, you get Mark Gastineau hitting Bernie Kosar late. You get a Fake Spike. You get a buttfumble. And you get a defensive tackle — keep that part of it in mind please; a DEFENSIVE tackle — calling a timeout while the offense is on the field, a few seconds before the quarterback throws what would have been a game-tying 36-yard touchdown pass. “It’s my fault,” Sheldon Richardson said.

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Daily Clips Cont. The kid was being too hard on himself, really. It’s bigger than that. It’s bigger than him. Richardson was still at Missouri when the buttfumble happened. He wasn’t yet 5 when the Fake Spike happened, wasn’t yet born when Gastineau crushed Kosar. The Jets lost to the Packers 31-24 yesterday for a lot of reasons, almost none of them Richardson’s fault: the offense, so brilliant early, crawled into a shell across the final 2 ¹/₂ quarters. Nobody thought it worthwhile to guard Jordy Nelson, who collected 209 receiving yards. Aaron Rodgers, best quarterback on the planet, did things the best quarterback on the planet is supposed to do. So there was that. But there was also this: An interception by David Harris late in the third quarter that could well have rescued the Jets and reversed an avalanche of bad momentum, called back because Damon “Snacks” Harrison was maybe a half-step away from the sidelines (and digging hard) when Rodgers snapped the ball. Penalty. Twelve men on the field. An ill wind. And there was this: The Jets facing fourth-and-4 at the Green Bay 36, down a touchdown, all 78,041 inside Lambeau on their feet, roaring, screeching, pleading, and Smith somehow, someway, finding Jeremy Kerley for the tying score, and … “In my peripheral vision,” Kerley admitted, “I saw something.” “You can tell when a play’s coming back,” receiver David Nelson said. A dark cloud. It’s there on the tape: Rex Ryan standing next to Richardson and then Richardson approaching the line judge. What you can also see is offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg waving his arms as if to say: “No!” Referees are only supposed to grant timeouts to the head coach, but they’re also instructed to keep their eyes on the line of scrimmage so close to a snap. What he heard was Richardson’s voice. Who’s message was he relaying? “I know for a fact it didn’t come from me,” Ryan said. Mornhinweg isn’t permitted to offer his take until later in the week because the Jets would prefer this story linger an extra four or five days. Richardson? “I let the team down,” he said. No. He didn’t. In the small picture, he was well down the list of Sunday’s culprits. Muhammad Wilkerson showed an appalling lack of judgment and poise by getting himself tossed for throwing a punch as the meltdown climaxed with a two-point conversion that gave the Packers their first lead, 24-21. Geno Smith was a completely different player over the game’s final 40 minutes than he was in the first 20, in part because it looked like Mornhinweg traded in his own playbook at halftime for a dusty copy of Paul Hackett’s assemblage of squiggly lines. And Ryan, now in his sixth year, has to find a way to stop the hemorrhaging, and instead of applying a tourniquet he let his team bleed out. In the bigger picture? Richardson never had a chance. He was just another naive newcomer who thought the Jets’ history of hilarity was a fable, a fairy tale, something made up by fans and seized by sportswriters, except if you’ve been paying attention long enough, all the way back to a Swiss lass named Heidi, then you know this merits a proper place in the anthology. 21 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. You know Indi-Jets-ion when you see it. And feel it. Back_to_Top Jets negate own TD, drop absolute heartbreaker to Pack (Brian Costello) New York Post September 14, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/14/key-td-called-back-after-jets-pause-game/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jets coach Rex Ryan looked like he ate some bad cheese after this one. The Jets lost a heartbreaking 31-24 game to the Packers before 78,041 cheeseheads on Sunday at Lambeau Field. The stunning loss came after the Jets jumped out to a 21-3 lead over the heavily favored Packers. The Jets blew the lead over the final 35 minutes of the game and walked away a disappointing 1-1. The loss came in stunning fashion after it appeared the Jets tied the game with 4:57 left in the game when quarterback Geno Smith hit wide receiver Jeremy Kerley with what would have been a 36-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4, but the Jets called a timeout before the snap, nullifying the play. It appeared offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg called the timeout, but he may have been simply suggesting it to Ryan, not calling it. Only a head coach is allowed to call timeouts from the sideline, but officials are instructed not to turn around late in the play clock and just award the timeout. The Jets wound up converting the fourth-and-4 a play later, but the drive stalled after that and they turned it over on downs, allowing Green Bay to run out the clock. The Packers scored 21 unanswered points and scored two second-half touchdowns to steal a game the Jets seemingly had in hand in the first half. As the Packers rallied, the Jets lost their composure. Star defensive player Muhammad Wilkerson was thrown out of the game after throwing punches during an end-zone scuffle. At that point, the Packers had taken the lead after quarterback Aaron Rodgers found Randall Cobb for a 1-yard touchdown, erasing what had been a 21-3 Jets lead. The two-point conversion made it 24-21. The Jets tied it on a Nick Folk 52-yard field goal with 2:26 left in the third quarter, but the Packers answered right back. On the first play after the Folk field goal, Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson put a double-move on Jets cornerback Dee Milliner and scored an 80-yard touchdown to put Green Bay up 31-24. The Jets’ secondary was atrocious. Packers wide receiver had 209 receiving yards on nine catches. Rodgers threw for 346 yards. The game could not have started better for the Jets, who jumped out to a 21-3 lead early in the second quarter. The Packers had a fumbled snap on their first play and Jets defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson recovered at the Packers’ 16, setting Smith and the offense up. The Jets punched it in five plays later with Smith scoring on a 1-yard bootleg run less than two minutes into the game.

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Daily Clips Cont. The Jets defense controlled the Packers’ offense early, blitzing Rodgers and clearly making him uncomfortable. They sacked Rodgers twice on Green Bay’s second possession, once by Quinton Coples and once by Demario Davis. The offense then showed what it could do on a six-play, 84-yard drive that featured some nice play-calling from Mornhinweg and execution by Smith .On third-and-1 they ran a pretty zone-read option play that featured Smith faking a handoff to Chris Ivory and then pitching to Jeremy Kerley for a 39-yard gain. Smith finished off the drive with a pretty 29-yard touchdown pass to Eric Decker that put the Jets up 140 and silenced the Lambeau crowd. Green Bay answered with a 67-yard drive, but it stalled at the 13-yard line after Ryan successfully challenged a catch by Jordy Nelson at the 3 that was overturned and ruled incomplete. The Packers settled for a Mason Crosby 31-yard field goal. The Jets’ offensive dominance continued into the second quarter. They converted four third downs on a 17-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Ivory scoring from the 4-yard line, giving the Jets a stunning 21-3 lead. The Packers got another two field goals from Crosby, including a 55-yarder, in the second quarter to make it 21-9. Momentum swung in the Packers direction with two minutes left in the first half when Smith threw an interception to Tramon Williams. The Jets had the ball at the Green Bay 27 when Smith dropped back and was hit by Mike Daniels, who beat Jets guard Brian Winters. Smith threw the ball toward tight end Zach Sudfeld as he was hit, but he floated the ball up and Williams picked it off. The Packers took over at their own 3 with 1:52 left. The Jets had held Rodgers in check for the most part before that, but he began to pick apart the Jets secondary, marching the Packers down the field. Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for a 6-yard touchdown to cut the Jets lead to 21-16 before halftime. Cobb beat Kyle Wilson for the score. Back_to_Top

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Rex Ryan won't rip NY Jets secondary, tips cap to Aaron Rodgers (Seth Walder) New York Daily News September 15, 2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/jets-insider-rex-ryan-ready-rip-credits-aaron-rodgersarticle-1.1939696 GREEN BAY — Rex Ryan has pounded his chest in defense of his maligned secondary recently, saying that it was better than it was given credit for. On Sunday, the secondary showed why there were so many questions surrounding it, as Aaron Rodgers threw for 346 yards with three touchdowns and zero interceptions. After the game, Ryan acquiesced. “Look guys, we’re playing against the No. 1 quarterback in the history of this league,” he said. “Was I concerned going in? Probably a little bit.” The Jets used a three-man rotation at cornerback, starting Antonio Allen and Darrin Walls but then inserting Dee Milliner into the game partway through the second quarter. It was Milliner’s first game action since suffering a high ankle sprain on Aug. 10, and it did not go well. The second-year cornerback surrendered an 80-yard touchdown to Nelson in the third quarter on a double move. 23 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Possibly even worse than that: Milliner felt discomfort in his ankle again shortly thereafter. “Toward the end, it tightened up on me a little bit and I actually told (Allen) that he could go back in for me because I felt like it would be better for him to go in at the time,” Milliner said. “I felt like he could do better at the time because I couldn’t really move like I wanted to.” Nelson had 209 receiving yards, a career-high for him and tied for the fourth-highest single-game total in Packers history, drawing a compliment from Ryan. “The one kid was Jerry Rice out there today,” Ryan said. “He’s a good receiver.” DECKED OUT Eric Decker scored his first touchdown as a Jet early in the game, but the receiver left in the second half with a hamstring injury, something he dealt with during training camp. Neither Ryan nor Decker knew the severity of the more recent injury, and Decker said he didn’t expect to find out any more until Monday. GROUNDED The Jets were effective again in stopping the run, holding the Packers to just 80 yards. Eddie Lacy ran for 43 yards on 13 carries. Back_to_Top NY Jets not short on people to blame in meltdown loss to Packers (Manish Mehta) New York Daily News September 15, 2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/mehta-shortage-people-blame-jets-meltdown-greenbay-article-1.1939710 GREEN BAY — When the meltdown was complete, there were too many culprits to count. From Geno Smith’s horrible pass late in the first half that swung the momentum to an uncharacteristic series of haymakers by the typically cool Mo Wilkerson that got him booted to an ill-advised timeout from the sideline by Sheldon Richardson — or was it Marty Mornhinweg? — that punctuated a bizarre sequence, the Jets’ 31-24 collapse against the Packers Sunday will leave a mark for a long time. Rex Ryan’s team went on a three-hour, 21-minute joy ride that ended with an epic thud. “Sometimes the execution falls flat,” Ryan said after the Jets blew an 18-point first-half lead thanks to breakdowns in every imaginable way. The prohibitive underdog Jets were flawless for the first 20 minutes of the game before they needed someone to perform the Heimlich maneuver on their troubled souls. No matter how much Ryan and his players talked about the effort and heart they displayed, there’s no way to sugarcoat this loss: The Jets self-destructed. Smith orchestrated three consecutive touchdown drives to open the game before one poor throw started to change the narrative on what should have been a celebratory day for Ryan’s team. With the Jets leading 21-9 with the ball on the Packers 27 at the two-minute warning, Smith threw a floater after getting hit by Mike Daniels (who beat Brian Winters) that was picked off by Tramon Williams. Aaron Rodgers needed only 1 minute, 44 seconds to race his team 97 yards down the field for a touchdown that cut the Jets lead to 21-16 at halftime, a 10- or 14-point swing that loomed large.

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Daily Clips Cont. It was the beginning of a particularly painful second half that exposed Ryan’s suspect secondary. Rodgers and Jordy Nelson, who finished with a career-high 209 yards, exposed Ryan’s cornerbacks. Darrin Walls, Antonio Allen and Dee Milliner took turns getting beat by the Packers, who racked up 390 total yards. “It is deflating,” Allen said of watching the Packers steadily chip away at the Jets’ cushion. “We tried to come back in here at halftime and grab the momentum (back). Unfortunately, it didn’t happen.” Wilkerson lost his composure after the Packers took their first lead with 5:45 left in the third quarter, taking swings at right tackle David Bakhtiari that got him ejected after a successful two-point conversion. Believe it or not, Wilkerson’s penalty wasn’t the most costly. The Jets continued to crumble. Milliner was torched by Nelson on a double move on an 80-yard touchdown strike to give the Packers a 31-24 lead. The Jets were flagged for 12 men on the field (Damon Harrison couldn’t get off in time), which erased David Harris’ interception that would have given Ryan’s team the ball back at the Green Bay 20 with 32 seconds left in the third quarter. “Those things make you mad,” Milliner said of the defensive breakdowns. “We got to finish the game.” Safety Calvin Pryor admitted that “sometimes I felt we weren’t as aggressive as we should have been” on defense. He was probably right, but the Jets were still positioned to overcome all of the earlier blunders. They saved the most egregious error for last, a mistake shrouded in mystery hours after the game. On fourth-and-4 from the Green Bay 37 with 3:37 left in the game, Jeremy Kerley made a leaping grab in the end zone over a defender that would have put the Jets within an extra point of tying the game. But the play was whistled dead after someone called a timeout from the Jets sideline. Smith: “I didn’t really know what was going on.” Ryan: “I didn’t call it. Somebody called it.” Richardson said he called the timeout after seeing Mornhinweg attempt to get the referee’s attention on the sideline. “It’s fourth down in Lambeau Field with 80,000 screaming fans,” Richardson said. “(The ref) didn’t hear Marty. So I made sure they heard him. It’s my fault.” Replays revealed another intriguing twist. It appeared as if Mornhinweg asked for a timeout before backing off. The play clock was ticking down to four seconds when Richardson came from behind the official and asked for a timeout. The official immediately blew his whistle. Was it Richardson’s gaffe? Had Mornhinweg changed his mind? Ryan stood a few feet away and made no discernable motion to call the Jets’ final timeout. Smith said afterward that he didn’t discuss the reasoning for the timeout with Mornhinweg, who was not made available to reporters to provide further explanation. The Jets converted on fourth down on the next play, but never got into the end zone. It was a stunning finish to a bizarre game that the Jets gift-wrapped for the Cheeseheads. “I think it’s ridiculous if you don’t credit the opponent,” Ryan said. “Did we contribute in it? Probably.” Probably? Definitely, Rex. 25 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Back_to_Top Mo Wilkerson apologizes to NY Jets teammates after fight gets him ejected vs. Packers (Manish Mehta) New York Daily News September 15, 2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/mo-wilkerson-apologizes-jets-fight-ejection-article1.1939705 GREEN BAY — Mo Wilkerson apologized to his teammates for getting ejected in the Jets’ 31-24 loss to the Packers, but the guys in the visitors’ locker room were all in agreement: The Packers had it coming. The typically unflappable defensive lineman was booted after throwing punches late in the third quarter moments after GB had converted a two-point conversion to take a 24-21 lead. “Guys’ hands were in my face,” Wilkerson said. “I was using my hands to get their hands out of my face. … I can’t do that. I’m the leader of this team. That’s just not the way I’m supposed to act.” Sheldon Richardson said that a Packers player corralled safety Dawan Landry around the neck, which prompted him to grab that player’s facemask and Wilkerson to join in. “I know Mo. We don’t go for that,” Richardson said. “If you put your hands on one of our teammates, we’re most definitely going to put our hands on ya’ll. I know he feels bad about it. He means well. We let the team down. Just can’t let that happen again.” Wilkerson addressed the team after the loss. “It’s something that rarely happens with me,” Wilkerson said. “I lost my cool and let my emotions get the best of me.” Wilkerson took on three Packers in the end zone and threw a series of punches at right tackle David Bakhtiari before getting disqualified. He smiled and waved on the crowd at Lambeau Field as he exited even though he likely would have preferred to extend one of his fingers to the Cheeseheads. The game was chippy from the first snap. “I felt like Green Bay didn’t give the respect we needed …” right guard Willie Colon said. “I just kind of got that feeling playing against them. Their whole swagger and things they were saying. But, hey, that’s fine. A lot of teams are going to feel that way about us. ... We got to earn respect. We got to go out there and take it.” Wilkerson, however, knew he crossed the line. “Nobody feels worse than Mo about it,” Rex Ryan said. “He feels he let his team down. It’s an emotional game, but having someone take a swing is not acceptable.” Back_to_Top Timeout nullifies would-be tying score for NY Jets vs. Packers, epic meltdown leads to 31-24 loss (Seth Walder) New York Daily News September 14, 2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/timeout-nullifies-would-be-tying-score-jets-losspackers-article-1.1939500 GREEN BAY, WISC. - If a timeout could scream “Same Old Jets,” it would be the one called with five minutes left against the Packers on Sunday. The Jets thought they had tied the game with a remarkable catch by Jeremy Kerley in the end zone, only to have their mood struck down when they realized a timeout had been called moments before the snap, 26 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. negating the play. It was only one of many disasters that led to a 31-24 loss despite the Jets (1-1) having had a 21-3 lead earlier in the game. The main culprit on the timeout was Sheldon Richardson. As the Jets lined up on fourth-and-four on the 36-yard line, offensive Marty Mornhinweg came down the sideline motioning for a timeout. At the last moment, Mornhinweg looked like he may have changed his mind but it was too late: Richardson yelled for the timeout in the referee’s ear. The referee blew the play dead just as the ball was snapped -- perhaps even a beat after it. “It’s fourth down in Lambeau Field and there was 80,000 screaming fans. They didn’t hear Marty,” Richardson said. “So, I made sure they heard him. It’s my fault.” Mornhinweg did not address the media after the game. Technically, only a head coach or a player on the field can signal for a timeout. However, according to a league spokesperson the play was called correctly by the referee because “when a snap is imminent, game officials are instructed not to turn their attention away from the field to verify who is calling the timeout. A game official should not grant the timeout only if he is certain it is not being requested by the head coach.” Richardson thought Rex Ryan also called the timeout, but after the game Ryan made it clear he did not call for the timeout. “On the fourth down call, they said I called it,” Ryan said. “I never called it.” “It’s one of those emotional punches to the gut because it was such a great play,” David Nelson said. Kerley said he had a feeling that the play might have been called back because he noticed the action on the sideline just before the ball was snapped. “This was a rough one to say the least,” Ryan said of the loss. But the coach wouldn’t completely blame his team. “I think it’s ridiculous if you don’t credit the opponent,” Ryan said. “Did we contribute in it? Probably did. But they certainly earned the game.” It actually wasn’t the first time that Ryan has been involved in a controversial timeout from a non-head coach: back in 2007 Ryan, then the defensive coordinator for the Ravens, called a timeout that negated a failed fourth down conversion by the Patriots, giving Bill Belichick and Co. another shot and ultimately allowing them to keep their perfect season alive. Gang Green couldn’t have asked for a better start to the game: Richardson recovered a botched snap on the first play of scrimmage and Geno Smith ran in a touchdown himself on the resulting drive. Eric Decker caught his first touchdown as a Jet shortly thereafter, giving the Jets their largest first-quarter lead (14 points) since 2009. In the second quarter Ivory piled on, rushing for a four-yard touchdown. The 21-3 lead would not last long and really, the botched timeout was just the last in a series of self-destructing mistakes that ruined the Jets’ day. First, it was Smith’s interception in the second quarter, a pass intended for Zach Sudfeld that floated after Smith was hit and was picked off by Tramon Williams with under two minutes left in the first half. The Packers (1-1) marched right down the field, completing a 97-yard drive before the second quarter ended, with a touchdown pass to Randall Cobb to reduce the deficit to just 21-16. Next it was Jordy Nelson, who had a career-high 209 receiving yards on the day, beating Dee Milliner on a double-move and going the distance for an 80-yard score with 2:21 left in the third quarter to give the 27 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Packers their first lead of the day. Following the ensuing successful two-point conversion attempt, the two teams skirmished and Muhammad Wilkerson, the Jets’ best player, was ejected for throwing punches. Another big play was called back for a mistake just shortly thereafter, as David Harris picked off Rodgers with a minute left in the third quarter only to have the play negated by having 12-men on the field as Damon Harrison wasn’t able to get off in time. “This is the one of the ones that kind of hurts me the most,” Kerley said of the loss. “Wish we could have it back, but we can’t.” Back_to_Top

NEW YORK TIMES Jets Build an 18-Point First-Half Lead, Which Aaron Rodgers Duly Vaporizes (Ben Shpigel) New York Times September 14, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/sports/football/jets-build-an-18-point-halftime-lead-whichaaron-rodgers-duly-vaporizes.html?ref=football&_r=0 GREEN BAY, Wis. — It happened so slowly for the Jets on Sunday, their self-destruction. How they blew an 18-point first-half lead could not be whittled into a particular play, a defining moment, but rather a series of events that they will simmer about for days, if not longer, should their 31-24 missed opportunity of a loss to the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field go on to symbolize what could have been. For the Jets to topple the so-called mighty Packers, a few things had to happen, it was presumed. They needed to limit their mistakes. They needed to pressure quarterback Aaron Rodgers. They needed to force turnovers. They did all this — for about a half. Until the Jets did what the Jets did not want to do, which was undermine themselves. There was the lack of discipline showed by Muhammad Wilkerson, who was ejected when he threw punches after a skirmish in the end zone. There was the penalty, for too many men on the field, that negated David Harris’s interception deep in Green Bay territory. And most crucial, there was the timeout, appeared to have been called by the offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, that negated what would have been a game-tying touchdown pass from Geno Smith to Jeremy Kerley late in the fourth quarter. Rodgers exposed the Jets’ secondary for 346 yards and 3 touchdowns, completing 25 of 42 passes. At halftime the Jets led by 21-3, and after each big first-half play, Ryan jumped around and pumped his fist, his prophecy coming true, or so he thought. All week the rhetoric he propagated lacked its usual snarl. The turn from defiance to deference seemed calculated, to prove a point. Ryan claimed that the Jets would rather play a bad team, a high school team, and that he would have no time to sleep. Lest, after all, he waste an hour otherwise spent scheming for Rodgers — and Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb and Eddie Lacy. Those schemes produced disorienting results: the Packers and not the Jets trading field goals for touchdowns, Smith doing what Rodgers could not. This went on for about 28 minutes until all those good feelings dissipated with a missed block by Brian Winters. Mike Daniels pummeled Smith as he threw, and the fluttering pass was picked off by Tramon Williams at the Green Bay 3-yard line. Rodgers engineered a 97-yard drive, dissecting the Jets with short passes. He finished it with his first touchdown pass against the Jets in 19 series, dating to October 2010, with a 6yard toss to Cobb with 8 seconds left that sliced the Packers’ deficit to 21-16. 28 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. The Jets had their chance to deflate the Packers heading into halftime, and it vanished. As did their lead, soon enough. Ryan experimented with different defenses, different cornerback combinations, but none seemed to trouble Rodgers. On one play, he appeared to look off safety Calvin Pryor, moving him toward the middle of the field, and found Nelson, who slipped behind Dee Milliner, for 33 yards. That set up a 1-yard touchdown pass to Cobb. On the first play after the Jets evened the score at 24-24 with a 52-yard field goal by Nick Folk, Rodgers picked on Milliner again. Nelson torched Milliner on a double-move, cut inside past Pryor and zipped 80 yards for the touchdown. The Packers had 10 days to stew and prepare after being trounced by Seattle, and the Jets expected a noisy home crowd, a team ready to play and a quick start. What the Jets could not predict was that, on the Packers’ first offensive play, Rodgers would drop the snap. Sheldon Richardson pounced on the ball at the Green Bay 16-yard line and five plays later lined up at fullback when Smith dashed into the end zone on a 1-yard bootleg play. All the Jets had to do over the final 58 minutes 1 second, then, was contain one of the N.F.L.’s most productive passers. Masterly tactician that he is, Ryan concocted a clever strategy. And it worked, at first. It ran counter to Ryan’s ethos, but the Jets’ best defense for the first 20 minutes was a superlative offense. Three series, three touchdowns. The final two came on drives of 84 and 80 yards, comprising five and 17 plays, and featured Smith at his dynamic best. There were option pitches and scrambles, draw plays and deep passes. Smith and his teammates executed them to perfection. He finished the game with 16 completions in 32 attempts with a touchdown and an interception. Smith’s finest moment put the Jets ahead, 14-3. On third down, with pressure coming from his left, Smith saw that Eric Decker had beaten Sam Shields down the far sideline and lofted an inch-perfect 29-yard touchdown pass. Of the Jets’ first seven third-down chances, Smith converted six, the only failure being an 11-yard gain on third and 13 that set up, on the next play, a 5-yard pass to Decker, who later left with a hamstring injury. Chris Ivory finished that drive by rumbling in from 4 yards. It was 21-3. The Jets were in control and having fun, until they were not. Back_to_Top

WALL STREET JOURNAL Terrible Timeout: Jets Find a Cruel New Way to Lose (Stu Woo) Wall Street Journal September 14, 2014 http://online.wsj.com/articles/terrible-timeout-jets-find-a-cruel-new-way-to-lose1410749245?tesla=y&mod=WSJ_NY_Sports_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203866704580154194008009062.html?mod =WSJ_NY_Sports_LEFTTopStories GREEN BAY, Wis.—The Jets are known around the NFL for handing their opponents victories with sheer ineptitude: Dropped passes, reckless turnovers and dumb penalties. They overcame those crimes in their season-opening win against Oakland last week, but not in Green Bay Sunday, where they committed many of the same offenses—and also discovered a cruel new way to lose.

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Daily Clips Cont. Down seven points with five minutes to go, the Jets faced a fourth-and-four on the Packers 36 when Geno Smith lofted a pass to Jeremy Kerley, who out-leapt cornerback Tramon Williams to snag it in the end zone. Touchdown! A tie game after the extra point! After blowing an early 21-3 lead, it appeared the Jets would have a chance to steal a win at hallowed Lambeau Field. But wait: The referee had an announcement. A timeout had been called before the snap. By the Jets. "That would be our fashion: We score the touchdown and there would be a timeout," head coach Rex Ryan said afterward. With the touchdown negated, the Jets still managed to convert on fourth down, but couldn't score on the drive. And because that touchdown-negating timeout was the Jets' final one, the Packers were able to run out the clock for a 31-24 win. How could the Jets blow it? They were equipped to tyrannize this game, and they did for 28 minutes. Their dominant defensive line hammered the Packers' injury-eroded offensive line, and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers struggled against the Jets' patchwork defensive secondary. Meanwhile, Smith looked even better than he did last week against Oakland, leading the Jets to touchdowns on their first three drives and finding his expensive new receiver, Eric Decker, for first downs and a score. Then the 21-3 lead became 21-6, then 21-9. Then Smith threw a careless interception before halftime, defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson threw foolish punches at Packers linemen during a scuffle to earn a third-quarter ejection, and Decker left the game in the second half with hamstring tightness. Suddenly, the Jets were without two of their best players. And losing. Yet despite all that, they still had a late-game chance to tie the Packers—had it not been for that timeout. "I never called anything," Ryan said he told game officials. But he wasn't the culprit. Replays showed that five seconds before the snap, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg stomped down the sideline, slamming his right palm against his raised left fingers to call the timeout. A moment before the snap, Mornhinweg waved his hands back, as if to signal, "Never mind." Too late. An official near the line of scrimmage blew his whistle as the ball was snapped. Ryan and some players on both teams said they heard the whistle, but everyone kept playing. After Kerley caught the pass, two officials in the end zone raised their arms to award the touchdown. Then the referee announced that the timeout had been granted before the play. According to NFL rules, only the head coach or players on the field can ask for a timeout. But after the game, league spokesman Michael Signora said that officials had acted correctly, explaining that when a snap is imminent, the officials are instructed not to turn their attention away from the field in order to verify who is calling the timeout. "It's one of those emotional punches to the gut just because it was such a great play," receiver David Nelson said. "We're battling as hard as we can and something finally goes right and it gets out of the rut you're in and it doesn't count." The day had begun perfectly for the Jets. Rodgers fumbled the game's first snap on his own 16-yard line, and lineman Sheldon Richardson recovered. That set up a one-yard touchdown run for Smith. On the next series, Smith hit a streaking Decker on the left sideline for a 29-yard score. The next drive ended with Chris Ivory's four-yard touchdown run.

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Daily Clips Cont. But what followed was the worst of 2013 all over again. After the two-minute warning, Smith was hit while throwing a pass and was intercepted at the Green Bay 3 yard line. Rodgers led a touchdown drive to cut the lead to 21-16 at halftime. Another Rodgers touchdown pass, again to Randall Cobb, and a two-point conversion, gave the Packers a 24-21 third-quarter lead. The Jets tied the game on Nick Folk's 52-yard kick, but on the next play from scrimmage, Rodgers found Jordy Nelson wide open and the receiver faked out Jets cornerback Dee Milliner, who was playing his first game since his Aug. 10 high-ankle sprain, for an 80-yard touchdown. After a splendid first half, Smith ended the game 16-of-32 for 176 yards and only one touchdown pass that counted. "This was a rough one," Ryan said. "We thought the game was really going the way we expected it go." Back_to_Top

ESPN NEW YORK Timeout fiasco leads to a 'Same Old Jets' loss for the ages (Rich Cimini) ESPN New York September 15, 2014 http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york-jets/post/_/id/43094/timeout-fiasco-leads-to-a-same-old-jets-lossfor-the-ages?ex_cid=espnapi_public GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It was a collapse straight out of the "Same Old Jets" era, the kind that haunts a team. The New York Jets blew an 18-point lead and turned Jordy Nelson into Don Hutson, but the ugliest part of Sunday's 31-24 loss to the Green Bay Packers -- the moment that will live in infamy -- was the touchdown that didn't happen. Welcome to The Timeout Game. In the crucible of a tight fourth quarter, the Jets were undermined by indecision on their sideline and by the big mouth of Sheldon Richardson. Yeah, that's right, a defensive tackle was responsible for the timeout that nullified what could've been a game-tying, 36-yard touchdown catch by Jeremy Kerley with five minutes to play. Here's what happened, according to people on the sideline: On fourth-and-4, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg wanted to change the original play and gestured for a timeout. The side judge apparently didn't see or hear Mornhinweg. With about four seconds left on the play clock, Mornhinweg decided to stick with the original play, so he backed off on his timeout request. He extended his arm, almost as if he were telling people around him to calm down and hush up. Richardson, thinking Mornhinweg still wanted the timeout, decided to speak up. Never accused of being a wallflower, Richardson walked up to the official, got real close to his ear and called the timeout on behalf of the team. The whistle was blown just as the ball was snapped, give or take a nanosecond. Play dead. No play. No touchdown. "Of course, that would be our fashion," Rex Ryan said, sarcastically. "We'd score the touchdown and there would be a timeout." After the timeout, the Jets converted on fourth down. Then they gained just two more yards before surrendering the ball on downs. They wouldn't get another chance. 31 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. "It is frustrating," David Nelson of the timeout fiasco. "It's one of those emotional punches in the gut just because it was such a great play." Sideline confusion isn't very becoming; it shows a lack of organization. If the coaches can't get the plays called, how are the players supposed to execute the plays? In the case of the timeout, there's plenty of blame to go around. Mornhinweg is guilty of indecision. If he hadn't had second thoughts about the play, it would've gone off without a hitch. Usually, Ryan calls the timeout upon hearing Mornhinweg in the headset. This time, with the play clock ticking close to zero, Mornhinweg acted unilaterally, which apparently he's allowed to do. Why did he have a fleeting urge to change it? None of the players knew -- or were willing to say. Quarterback Geno Smith said there was nothing about the defensive look that created concern. In other words, he liked the call. Mornhinweg wasn't made available after the game; the Jets' assistant coaches are off limits on game day. Nevertheless, the team should've made an exception because it put the players in the uncomfortable position of having to explain a delicate situation, not wanting to throw their coach under the bus. Indeed, they sounded like they were covering for a coaching faux pas. "It's not for me to comment," guard Willie Colon said. "I'm not that guy." Richardson volunteered he was responsible for the timeout, saying, "It's my fault." It was a stand-up gesture on his part, but he was too hard on himself. This breakdown was bigger than one person. He wasn't the only loudmouth on the sideline. Several people were yelling for a timeout, according to another person on the scene. That's just bad form. Meanwhile, on the field, some players, including Kerley, knew the play had been blown dead before the snap. Smith didn't. Neither did Colon. How fitting: Half the team knew what was happening, half didn't. Ryan has to take control of his sideline. You think this sort of thing happens to Bill Belichick? Richardson took the bullet, admitting Mornhinweg gave him "a look" that he shouldn't have called the timeout -- presumably, a dirty look. "It's fourth down ... Lambeau Field ... 80,000 screaming fans and [the officials] didn't hear Marty," Richardson said. "I made sure they heard him. It's my fault. ... That's all on me. I saw Marty calling timeout and I was into the game. I knew it was a clutch time. I didn't know if he wanted to or not, I just know he called. I just helped him out a bit. I whispered in the ref's ear, 'Timeout.' It was bad timing on my part. I felt like I let the team down again on that one." Richardson said "again" because he and Muhammad Wilkerson were flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct in the third quarter, fighting with Green Bay players after a two-point conversion. Wilkerson was ejected from the game, another player losing his poise. With a chance to pull a wonderful upset on the road, the Jets' top young players came unglued. That typified the day for the Jets, who blew 14-0 and 21-3 leads as their secondary was ravaged by Nelson for 209 yards. Ryan didn't provide much clarity on The Timeout, except to say emphatically that he didn't call it. He didn't dispute the official's call, acknowledging the play was blown dead. "Obviously, that's a huge thing," he said. "But we still had life." Maybe, but the timeout symbolized a young, immature team, still not ready to win a game like this on the road. Back_to_Top 32 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Rapid Reaction: New York Jets (Rich Cimini) ESPN New York September 14, 2014 http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york-jets/post/_/id/43075/rapid-reaction-new-york-jets13?ex_cid=espnapi_public GREEN BAY -- A few thoughts on the New York Jets' 31-24 loss to the Green Bay Packers Sunday at Lambeau Field: What it means: New year, same old road team. The Jets blew leads of 14-0 and 21-3, squandering a potential upset. Yes, there were some positives -- at least they were competitive, which was not always the case last year on the road -- but they lost their poise in crunch time. Muhammad Wilkerson was ejected in the third quarter for throwing a punch and a David Harris interception was nullifed by an inexcusable penalty -- 12 men on the field, with Damon Harrison the guilty party. The ultimate indignity came with 4:57 left, when an apparent 36-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Kerley was nullified because the Jets' sideline called timeout a split-second before the snap. In other words, it was a brutal loss, dropping the Jets to 1-1. Stock watch: After a week of prosperity, the Jets' secondary once again can be called "beleaguered." Yep, there's a big difference between Derek Carr and Aaron Rodgers. How predictable was this? The Jets' patchwork cornerback group was shredded by Rodgers (25-of-42, 346 yards) and Jordy Nelson, who recorded a career-high 209 yards on nine receptions -- the most allowed by a Rex Ryan defense. They made him look like Don Hutson. The crushing blow was an 80-yard touchdown to Nelson, who torched Dee Milliner on a double move to give the Packers a 31-24 lead. Milliner's return to the lineup was hyped as though he were Richard Sherman, with people forgetting he's still an unproven commodity. Plus, he built up four weeks of rust as he rehabbed his high-ankle sprain. Milliner came off the bench and was used in a three-corner rotation with Antonio Allen and Darrin Walls. Rodgers had his way with all three, rebounding from a slow start. He was befuddled at the start by the Jets' seven-man coverage schemes, but he eventually figured it out. Geno's fade: Geno Smith played the best 28 minutes of his career to start the game, outplaying Rodgers in every way, but an under-pressure interception before halftime became a 10-point swing. Guard Brian Winters missed a block, resulting in the hit on Smith. After that, Smith (16-of-32, 176 yards) was ineffective. He failed to rally his team despite ample opportunities in the second half. He missed a wideopen Eric Decker for what should've been a long touchdown. Decker left the game with a hamstring injury. Ground & Pound disappears: The Jets' running game was a major disappointment, as Chris Johnson and Chris Ivory combined for only 64 yards. Statistically, it was one of the worst games of Johnson's career -21 yards on 12 carries. Frankly, he looked a half-step slow to the hole. They should've run all over the Packers, whose run defense was exploited last week by the Seattle Seahawks. Game balls: Linebacker Demario Davis, who recorded two sacks. He led a strong run defense, but it wasn't good enough. What's ahead: The Jets will be on the national stage at MetLife Stadium, facing the Chicago Bears (0-1) on ESPN's "Monday Night Football." Back_to_Top

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Daily Clips Cont. NJ.com September 14, 2014 http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2014/09/jetspackers_what_led_to_muhammad_wilkerson_getting_ejected.html GREEN BAY, Wis. -- In the three minutes he talked to reporters after the Jets' 31-24 loss to the Packers on Sunday, defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson said repeatedly that he let his teammates down by getting ejected. "I can't do that," said Wilkerson, who is arguably the Jets' best player. "I'm a leader of this team. That's just not the way I'm supposed to act. I apologized to the team." Wilkerson got tossed for throwing a few punches just after Aaron Rodgers completed a two-point conversion pass to Randall Cobb to give the Pack a 24-21 with 5:45 remaining in the third quarter. But what led to it? Sheldon Richardson, the Jets' other defensive end, had been jawing frequently with the Packers' offensive line up to that point. But Richardson said all of that was "just football, man." In actuality, the chain of events that led to Wilkerson getting tossed began with an isolated event right after Cobb's conversion. Richardson said it started when Packers right guard T.J. Lang grabbed Jets safety Dawan Landry by the throat soon after the play ended. "Guy had my guy by the throat—I don't take kind to that, at all," Richardson said. "So I put paws on somebody. Mo followed suit, [we] looked after one another. And we ended up getting all the flags. Happens." Landry had tackled Cobb and appeared to be jawing with him and pushing him after both players got to their feet. Richardson said it was because Landry didn't think Cobb had crossed the goal line. As this was happening, Lang and Wilkerson were right there next to the scrum. Lang grabbed Landry, which led to Richardson coming from behind to pull Lang off of Landry. Packers receiver Davante Adams then approached, and things quickly spread and got more heated. Adams and Wilkerson were about to bump into one another when Adams tried to shove Wilkerson with his left arm. The usually mild-mannered (at least to reporters) Wilkerson shoved at Adams with right arm, and soon he had left guard Josh Sitton and left tackle David Bakhtiari in his face, pushing him. Which is when Wilkerson started swinging his arms and punching: Richardson said he initially thought he had been thrown out, too. He said he even heard one of the officials say, "91, 96"—Richardson's and Wilkerson's jersey numbers, respectively—"is ejected." But only Wilkerson got the hook. "It just got chippy—one guy after another," Richardson said. "For some reason, the refs was only grabbing us. "I know Mo. We don't go for that. We don't go for that at all. You put your hands on one of our teammates, we most definitely are going to put our hands on ya'll. I know he feels bad about it, me as well. We let the team down. We just can't let it happen again." In response to a question about Wilkerson's ejection, head coach Rex Ryan began his answer by saying Wilkerson had apologized to the team. "It's an emotional game," Ryan said, "but having somebody like that taking swings is not acceptable, and Mo will be the first one to say it."

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Daily Clips Cont. For as much as the Jets understood it was wrong to for one of their best players to throw punches, at least one other Jets defender echoed Richardson by saying the team felt an obligation to look after one another. "The game was chippy," safety Calvin Pryor said, "and of course we are going to back up our brothers." The Jets had said similar things after right guard Willie Colon got mixed up with a few Bengals players during a preseason game in Cincinnati last month. Wilkerson, meanwhile, said "everything happened so fast," so he couldn't say much about why he reacted the way he did because someone had put their hands in his face. As he left the field and was taken to the locker room after his ejection, Wilkerson gestured at the crowd by waving his arms and smiling. "Honestly, I really wanted to act in a negative way," he said. "But I didn't. The Green Bay fans were cheering me on because i got ejected from the game. I didn't want to lose my cool, so that's what I did. I didn't want lose my cool and do something else and make it even worse for me. "It's hurtful. I wanted to be out there with my brothers and finish that game. Like I said, my actions made me get ejected from the game, but at the end of the day I still love those guys and those guys love me back, and we're going to learn from today." Back_to_Top Instant analysis from the Jets' loss 31-24 to the Packers, which began with a bang (Dom Cosentino) NJ.com September 14, 2014 http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2014/09/instant_analysis_from_the_jets_loss_3124_to_the_packers_which_began_with_a_bang.html GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Jets on Sunday got off to a lightning-fast start, rolling to touchdowns on their first three possessions and staking an 18-point lead early in the second quarter. But they weren't going to keep the Packers and their-high powered offense contained for long. Green Bay eventually battled back, and the Jets eventually self-destructed, with defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson getting ejected in the third quarter, and a fourth-quarter touchdown getting taken away because the Jets called timeout just before the ball was snapped. A golden opportunity to get a big win on the road against a marquee opponent instead goes into the books as a 31-24 loss. At the final gun, some things we saw: • A quick start. Outside linebacker Calvin Pace said the Jets had to begin quickly. They began with a thunderclap, thanks to a lost fumble on the first snap of the game by Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Jets' defense had recovered just two fumbles all of last season. It took them one play to get that many Sunday. They quickly converted, and then scored again, jumping to a 14-0 lead less than six minutes into the game. • The touchdown that wasn't. On fourth-and-four from the 36 with 4:57 to go, Jets quarterback Geno Smith completed a touchdown pass to Jeremy Kerley, who made a terrific catch that would have tied the game at 31. But offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg used the Jets' last timeout just before the ball was snapped, and the play didn't count. Which ... derpity derp derp derp. • The Jets came unglued. There was jawing between defensive end Sheldon Richardson and the Packers for much of the game. Things finally came to a head after the Packers went ahead 24-21 with a little more

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Daily Clips Cont. than five minutes left in the third quarter. Wilkerson wound up getting ejected for trying to slap Packers receiver Davante Adams and offense linemen Josh Sitton and David Bakhtiari. • Aaron Rodgers was Aaron Rodgers. And Jordy Nelson was Jordy Nelson. Rodgers, the Packers quarterback, started slowly with that fumble. But he soon found his groove and torched the Jets, finishing 25-for-42 for 346 yards and three touchdowns. And Nelson, the team's top wideout, was his big target. Nelson used a double move to beat Dee Milliner on an 80-yard touchdown reception that put the Packers back in front just after the Jets tied the game in the third quarter. Nelson totaled 209 yards receiving on nine catches. • Dee Milliner's return. Tough assignment for Milliner in his first game back since he suffered a high ankle sprain on Aug. 10. He sat the first three series, but played every series after that until Nelson beat him for that 8-yard TD with 2:08 left in the third. He never returned after that. • Geno Smith's interception. The Jets were rolling and had a chance to take a 28-9 lead just before halftime, but Smith was hit by Mike Daniels as he tried to deliver a throw near the end zone to tight end Zach Sudfeld. The ball was badly underthrown and wound up getting picked by cornerback Tramon Williams. Daniels beat left guard Brian Winters with an inside move. Smith has his eyes downfield. Can't entirely blame him solely for that one. The killer was that the Packers responded by marching 97 yards in 10 plays in 1:44 to cut the Jets' lead to 21-16 just before the half. Smith also nearly fumbled on the first possession of the second half as he was being hit by Julius Peppers, but a replay review determined the play was an incomplete forward pass. Smith began the game 10-for-20. He finished by completing just six of his final 20 passes. • The takeaway that wasn't. Late in the third quarter, Rodgers threw an interception right to Jets inside linebacker David Harris. It would have given the Jets the ball inside the Packers' 30 when they were down a touchdown. But the Jets were whistled for having 12 men on the field. Remember how the Packers' tempo was going to create "chaos" for the Jets' D? Well, it was there. Nose tackle Damon Harrison was late getting off the field as the Pack rushed to snap the ball. Back_to_Top

METRO NEW YORK 3 things we learned in Jets loss to Packers (Kristian Dyer) Metro New York September 14, 2014 http://www.metro.us/newyork/sports/nfl/2014/09/14/3-things-learned-jets-loss-packers/ The wheels came off for the Jets, who gave up 21 unanswered points after a brilliant first 20 minutes in a 31-24 loss at the Packers. Aaron Rodgers fumbled on the first play from scrimmage to give the Jets a 7-0 lead just 1:49 into the game as Geno Smith’s 2-yard touchdown run put the visitors up early. The Jets sacked Rodgers twice on the next drive and Smith tossed a 29-yard touchdown pass to Eric Decker to give them a shocking 14-0 lead. The Jets allowed a field goal, but a methodical, 17-play drive put them up 21-3 in the second quarter. But then the Packers would go on a roll as they scored 28 of the game’s next 31 points. Metro breaks down what went wrong as the Jets lost for the first time since 2002 after holding an 18point lead: 1. Aaron’s neighborhood 36 | P a g e

Daily Clips Cont. Not only does Rodgers make all the throws, he’s also a highly mobile quarterback who is most dangerous when he escapes the pocket. The Jets got pressure on him early in the game, but he transitioned to quicker passes and got back on track. Rodgers rebounded from his shaky start to finish 25-of-42 for 346 yards and three touchdowns. 2. Losing stars After the Jets gave up the Packers go-ahead touchdown midway through the third quarter, Green Bay went for the two-point conversion. It didn’t matter as much in the grand scheme of things the Packers converted because Jets defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson was ejected for a fight after the play. Wilkerson is the team’s most dynamic player and in a game where the pass rush had to be dominant, the loss of Wilkerson hurt. Eric Decker was also sidelined midway through the third quarter on with a hamstring injury, so the Jets were without their biggest playmakers to close out the game. The Jets could have used a healthy Decker on the field late as they looked for a touchdown. 3. No takebacks The most costly mistake of the game ended up being one that shouldn’t have happened on multiple fronts. With the score 31-24 and five minutes to play, Smith tossed a touchdown pass to Jeremy Kerley on fourthand-4. Except, he didn’t. The refs had blown the play dead without the players hearing it due to a Jets timeout. Rex Ryan protested, saying he hadn’t called it. Turns out, Marty Mornhinweg had, even though coordinators can’t by the rules. The official, who had his back to the sideline, likely didn’t know who called it. Back_to_Top

SUNDAY’S SPORTS TRANSACTIONS Associated Press September 14, 2014 http://www.chron.com/default/article/Sunday-s-Sports-Transactions-5755270.php BASEBALL American League TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled RHP Alex Colome, INF Nick Franklin and LHP C.J. Riefenhauser from Durham (IL). TEXAS RANGERS — Placed OF Jim Adduci on the 15-day DL. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated LHP Paco Rodriguez from the 15-day DL. MIAMI MARLINS — Recalled C J.T. Realmuto from Jacksonville (SL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Signed F Khem Birch. COLLEGE HAMILTON — Named Rob Weber men's and women's rowing coach.

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