When the Jets play a Bengals game, it’s easy to see the progress. When they play a Colts or Patriots game, it’s hard to see any progress. Yet progress can still be made. Possibly we saw some more growth for the Jets offense despite the overall gloom of Thursday night in Indy.
Certainly the Jets took advantage of some looser Indy defense after falling behind 42-10 in the third quarter. But as Robert Saleh noted, the Colts were playing their ones “to the final whistle.” Meanwhile, the Jets were playing their backup QB again in Mike White and then their backup to the backup in Josh Johnson and, once Josh got his C-legs (C as in Colts) under him, he played a really good game for a grizzled old QB.
“I just think we had some tough situations early,” Johnson said of his understandably slow start jumping into the fray for White at the top of the second quarter before he…
