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Inside the Numbers | Special Jets Bye Week Edition

More Names, Trivia and History from Green & White's 39-38 Comeback Victory at Cincinnati

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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.

Isaiah's Explosive End-Around
Isaiah Williams' 25-yard end-around on the first play of the second quarter was the first rushing attempt in his 14-game, 2-season NFL career as well as his first scrimmage touch as a Jet. It was also the first of eight plays of 20-plus yards executed by the Jets offense in the game, after they had just five 20-plusses in their previous three games combined.

And as WR runs go, it was explosive and not just because it helped set up their first score. The last Jets WR with a 25-yard end-around was Braxton Berrios at Denver in 2022. The last time a wideout went farther toting the leather was a rookie in 2016 then known as Robby Anderson, now as Robbie Chosen, who slashed 30 yards in the 24-16 home win over the Ravens, led by a QB known then and now as Joe Flacco.

Knowing the Score
The outcome of the Jets' win ove the Bengals and Flacco marked the first 39-38 score in their history, win or lose, and the fifth all-time in NFL annals. It was also the 48th one-point decision in franchise history, with the Jets' last two squeaktories coming in the state of Ohio. Before Sunday, the Jets, QBed then of course by Flacco, roared back for a 31-30 win at Cleveland in 2022 Game 2. More coincidences: And after this bye weekend, the Browns are next up for the Jets, this time at MetLife Stadium.

One Final Footnote
Nick Folk after 3-for-3 at Cincinnati has converted all 17 of his field goal tries, leaving him six shy of tying his franchise record for most FGs without a miss from the start of a season, 23, which he did in his first Jets stint in 2013. And since Folk converted his last four FGs in that first Green & White incarnation, that gives him 21 in a row as a Jet and has him just five FGs shy of tying Greg Zuerlein's franchise mark of 26 consecutive FGs made, which Legatron did all in the '23 season.

Check out photos that captured every touchdown the Jets scored from the first half of the 2025 season.

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