08/30 — The Jets open the second frame by starting their second series. And Clemens is out at QB and Brad Smith is in. And the Green & White offense goes nowhere on three plays. This time Ben Graham handles the snap, hits a beauty inside the 5, and Greg Lewis is taken out of bounds by Rashad Washington at the Birds' 18.

Rookie Kevin Kolb likewise takes over the Eagles' offensive controls, with little initial success. Washington breaks up a pass, then David Harris harasses Kolb and forces a throwaway and tracks down TE Brad Celek after a short pass short of the first down.

Darrelle Revis is back for the punt and it looks as if the Jets' right side is open for a big return. But Philadelphia's J.J. Outlaw ankles Revis to the ground. Still, the Jets have their best starting field position at their 41 for Brad Smith.

And for Stacy Tutt, who lines up at tailback and takes Smith's handoff for 9 yards and 35 inches. Second-and-inches is normally a QB's best friend, and Smith fakes the handoff and rolls right. But LT Adrian Jones gives up an outside rush by rookie DE Marques Murrell, who hits Smith from the blind side and separates him from the ball, with fellow rookie DE Victor Abiamiri recovering at the Jets 42.

The Green & White taketh and they giveth away.

Akers winds up trying another 46-yard FG try. This one he gets away but with another storng Jets rush, he pushes it wide right. We're still scoreless.

The Jets hold, with Brad Kassell defensing a pass to TE Celek and the dime forcing a Kolb off-target third-down incompletion. Dirk Johnson gets off a nice 57-yard punt, but Chansi Stuckey provides an equally nice return, 38 yards as he slips two Philly tacklers before stepping on the sideline at the Eagles 43. Maybe this is the start of the end of this pitchers' duel.

Did Brad Smith just throw his nicest pass as a pro? I think so. He puts the ball on the money for Frisman Jackson, who runs the skinny post, dives and makes the grab at the 14 for a 29-yard completion.

But Sean Ryan gives half of that back when he gets called for "taunting." After Smith is chased to the sideline and can't hook up with Stuckey, it's now Nugent's turn at a 40-plus field goal, 48 yards to be exact. He hits it easily and solidly and good and with 5:40 to go in the half the Jets draw first green blood.

Jets 3, Eagles 0

Michael Gasperson catches a Kolb pass on the break, splits Drew Coleman and Hank Poteat and is off to the races until he's brought down by Manny Collins, trying unsuccessfully for the strip, after a 39-yard gain.

But Gasperson then perhaps costs the hosts the game's first touchdown. Kolb has rookie WR Zac Collie wide open down the right sideline for six — except several officials throw flags in Gasperson's direction for offensive pass interference, picking Drew Coleman. Soi at the two-minute warning, the Birds are back at the Jets 35.

Drew Coleman makes the open-field tackle on Gasperson, setting up Akers for FG try No. 3 from 43 yards. This one is good and we're tied.

Jets 3, Eagles 3

Stuckey gets the KO return and finds a seam here as well, taking the ball 33 yards to the Jets 31. Brad Smith has a great two-minute opportunity here, actually 1:43. But Smith is under the gun. He escapes his collapsed pocket for a pretty 7-yard save, then barely gets off an incompletion before being taken down on the next play.

After a third-down false start, Smith converts with a 10-yard QB draw, but he's running out of time to get the offense into field goal position. Rather than a 59-yard Nugent field goal try, the Jets will put their Hail Mary practice to the test from the plus-45 — and the Eagles are in their H.M. prevent formation. But Smith not only doesn't get his pass to the end zone, he doesn't even put it inbounds.

Halftime stats are decidedly anti-Jets: Eagles lead in first downs (9-4), yards (186-87), possession time (18:46-11:14) and third-down conversions (4-for-10 to 1-for-6). But you know the only stat that counts.

For the record, Mosley's three sacks is the most in a Jets preseason game since at least 1995. It's mixing apples and oranges, but Mosley is only the fourth different Jet to record three or more sacks in any game since '95. The other three are Hugh Douglas (twice), John Abraham (three times) and Shaun Ellis (once).