Exhilarating one-point wins followed by the bye week are fun for everyone in the NFL. The winning team's players, coaches and staff, its fans, its reporters, and also team senior consultants who like to keep the good times rolling with, say, a bye week edition of Jets Inside the Numbers:
Breece, Justin and the O Rise Up
Breece Hall was involved in the scoring on all three touchdowns in the final 15 minutes of the 39-38 comeback win over the Bengals, with those drives giving the Jets an unexpected bounty of seven scores in their final eight drives before Justin Fields' kneeldown. That was their second-longest in-game stretch of scoring drives since 1980, behind only the eight consecutive scoring drives (2 TDs, 6 FGs) in the 42-34 win over the visiting Colts in 2018. That was the win that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Green & White's Super Bowl III triumph over the Baltimore Colts.
The 23 points in the fourth quarter in the Cincy comeback were the fourth-most in a fourth quarter by a Jets team all-time. No. 1, of course, was the 30 points to send the 2000 Monday Night Miracle against Miami into OT in their 40-37 win. They also scored 28 at Shea Stadium vs. the Boston Patriots in 1968 and 24 in a 1978 overtime loss at Cleveland. So Sunday's 23 points were the most by the Jets in the fourth quarter of a road victory all-time.
Many Rushing Yards, No Sacks
The offensive line — from left to right, Olu Fashanu, John Simpson, Josh Myers, Joe Tippmann and Armand Membou — were tip of the spear in a rare combo game for the Jets offense at Cincy. The Fields/Hall-led unit, behind that white-and-green wall, achieved a "sackless 250" game. As it may sound, that indicates a game in which the Jets rushed for 250-plus yards while their QBs went unsacked. At Paycor Stadium, the Jets dashed for 254 yards and Fields suffered no sacks and only one hit in the pocket.
It's happened six times before in franchise history. The most recent was the 2010 38-14 win at Buffalo, when LaDainian Tomlinson led the 273-yard rushing attack and the Bills registered no sacks. The next-most-recent "sackles 250" was in the 2009 "Win And We're In Game," the 37-0 playoff-clinching Meadowlands win over none other than the Bengals. That night the Jets ran for 257 yards, and while Mark Sanchez was sacked zero times, the Bengals got a different goose egg — zero net passing yards.
Quincy's Favorite Metric?
Quincy Williams, the energetic, charismatic Jets 'backer who led the team in tackles for loss with double-digit figures in the previous four seasons (from 2021-24, 10.5‒10.5‒13.5‒13 TFLs), had 1.5 tackles behind the line in the first three games before going on Injured Reserve for four weeks with a shoulder injury. He returned to action at Cincinnati and he also returned to perhaps his favorite stat column when he dropped Bengals RB Chase Brown for a 5-yard loss late in the first quarter.