CLEVELAND — The Jets have by no means been so pleased to see a landing scored towards them.
Browns working again Nick Chubb had scored on a 12-yard run to offer Cleveland a 30-17 lead with 1:55 remaining and but the Jets sideline was buoyant with hope.
It was a hope that the Jets would convert right into a outstanding 31-30 comeback victory.
“They scored and the echo on the [coaches’] headset was that they gave us an opportunity, let’s see what occurs,’’ Jets head coach Robert Saleh stated. “I’ve by no means been so pleased for a missed sort out in my life.’’
The Jets had been finished and dusted. The Browns had been main 24-17 and in full management of the top of Sunday’s recreation at First Power Stadium. Cleveland had possession of the ball deep in Jets territory and the Jets had desperately burned all three of their timeouts earlier than the two-minute warning.
Had Chubb knelt down inbounds after getting the primary down as a substitute of scoring, the Browns might have simply run out the clock.
“If Chubb goes down on the 1-yard line, they win the soccer recreation,’’ Jets heart Connor McGovern instructed The Submit afterward. “As soon as he scored and I noticed 1:55 on the clock, I stated, ‘Now we have a chance right here.’
“I couldn’t think about being a working again and seeing the top zone and simply taking place. I don’t know if I might do it, simply to see that finish zone and all the pieces you do to work to get to that finish zone.’’
Saleh and his coaches instantly started chattering over the headsets concerning the new life that they had.
“We had the advantage of getting the chance on that final landing from Chubb,’’ Saleh stated. “It gave us [a chance]. We had a chance to benefit from it and make one thing spectacular occur.’’
Boy, did they do this.
Three performs into their subsequent possession, the Jets lower the Browns result in 30-24 on a 66-yard Joe Flacco TD go to Corey Davis with 1:22 remaining within the recreation.
Then Justin Hardee recovered an onside kick by punter Braden Mann.
“There was little question that we had been scoring as soon as we bought the ball,’’ Saleh stated.
They did, taking the 31-30 lead on a Flacco TD go to Garrett Wilson and the purpose after with 22 seconds remaining.
Chubb declined to talk to reporters after the sport. Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski fell on the sword, blaming himself.
“That may be a situation the place that's on me to speak that to the huddle,’’ he stated. “Now we have finished that earlier than. Having stated that, we have to shut the sport out. All the things that occurs on the sphere is my duty. I'm not going to cover from that and I'm not going to level fingers.’’
Saleh stated he’ll use that as a educating second for his personal group.
“I’m positive coach Stefanski could be very, very detailed,’’ Saleh stated. “I’m positive that’s very detailed in his vocabulary and I’m positive it was simply a type of moments.’’
It was a second the Jets so desperately wanted.
Extremely, after the Jets went forward and backup security Ashtyn Davis picked off Browns quarterback Jacoby Brissett to seal the sport, Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley had no thought they’d gained the sport as a result of he hadn’t seen that Cleveland kicker Cade York missed the additional level after the Chubb landing.
“I assumed it was a tie recreation,’’ Mosley stated. “I didn’t notice they missed the additional level. When Ashtyn bought the interception [and went down], I used to be like, ‘No, we want extra yards to get a discipline aim.’
“Everybody was celebrating and as soon as I figured it out it was only a nice feeling.’’
All because of that Chubb landing.
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