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Week 7 Game Recap: New York Jets 31, Cincinnati Bengals 38
What you need to know
| New York Jets |
QB Chad Pennington went deep on the first two passes of the day, and hit Sean Ryan for 22 yards and Laveranues Coles for a 57 yard touchdown pass. The Jets seemed to try to repeat this success. Pennington was clearly targeting Coles more than anyone else with 15 targets. He made no visible mistakes until the fourth quarter, where he fumbled a snap and threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown.
RB Thomas Jones struggled for the majority of the game, failing to make a significant impact running the ball. He had one run of 12 yards, but only 55 yards on 18 other attempts.
WR Laveranues Coles looked on top of his game on Sunday, but one has to remember it is against the Cincinnati Bengals. He caught two touchdowns in the first half: a 57 yard touchdown on the opening drive by the Jets, and then a 36 yard touchdown on a short crossing route where he busted through two defensive tacklers. Jerricho Cotchery was not involved in the game like he usually is, but he did catch a crazy garbage time Hail Mary pass while time expired.
| Cincinnati Bengals |
QB Carson Palmer allowed Kenny Watson to carry the team, and got the victory. He only threw the ball 21 times, the least number of attempts for him since week one last year.
RB Kenny Watson was featured often on the day, and had huge success. He scored three touchdowns in goalline situations, producing big fantasy numbers. He also ran the ball consistently, gaining 130 yards on 31 attempts.
WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh had the wind knocked out of him on the third play of the game, but came back on the next drive and got involved in the offense, eventually lengthening his touchdown streak. Chad Johnson had 102 yards receiving on three receptions, but he failed to get into the end zone yet again.
What you ought to know
| QB Chad Pennington, Pass: 20 - 31 - 272 - 3 TD / 1 INT, Rush: 3 - 7 - 0 |
Pennington started off the game sizzling, but had another rough fourth quarter. He fumbled a snap and threw a game changing interception that was returned for a touchdown. He threw too many out patterns and finally a Cincinnati corner jumped the route.
| RB Thomas Jones, Rush: 19 - 67 - 0 |
Jones could never get going, and the Jets gave up on the run game with Thomas Jones in the third quarter, giving Leon Washington most of the remaining playing time since Washington is also a pass threat.
| RB Leon Washington, Rush: 3 - 11 - 0, Rec: 2 - 21 - 0 (5 targets) |
Washington saw more playing time late in the game, but started as the backup running back. He replaced Thomas Jones for the majority of the fourth quarter, possibly because the Jets needed an additional passing option.
| WR Laveranues Coles, Rec: 8 - 133 - 2 (15 targets) |
Coles had a huge day against Cincinnati. He was targeted 15 out of 34 times Pennington threw the ball. Coles showed his ability to split defenses by splitting two defenders after he caught a short pass and going for a touchdown.
| WR Jerricho Cotchery, Rush: 1 - -1 - 0, Rec: 6 - 60 - 1 (6 targets) |
Cotchery was not involved much in the offense, but did produce a touchdown reception on a Hail Mary at the end of the game, making his game look better than it should have been. Pennington seemed to prefer to go to the speedy Coles against Cincinnati.
| WR Brad Smith, Rec: 1 - 12 - 0 (2 targets) |
Smith was the third wide receiver for the Jets. He caught his only real target, with his other coming on a desperation pass by Pennington.
| TE Sean Ryan, Rec: 3 - 46 - 0 (4 targets) |
Ryan stretched the defense for Pennington, catching a long pass on a deep out on the first play of the game for the Jets for 22 yards.
| PK Mike Nugent 3 - 3 FG, 2 - 2 XP, 11 points |
Nugent made all of his kicks.
| NYJ Rush Defense |
The Jets could not stop Kenny Watson, who consistently moved the chains by getting just past the first down mark. They were stretched out by the deep passes by Carson Palmer, causing them to choose what they wanted to do, so they decided they would make Watson beat them because they were up early, but Watson got the job done.
| NYJ Pass Defense |
The Jets failed to pressure much pressure on Carson Palmer, so even though their pass coverage was very good, they allowed some big plays. They sacked Palmer two times.
| QB Carson Palmer, Pass: 14 - 21 - 226 - 1 TD / 1 INT |
Palmer threw an interception in the second quarter that was a great play by Hank Poteat wrestling the ball away from T.J. Houshmandzadeh. Palmer did not throw the ball much because Kenny Watson was running over the Jets, which allowed him good play action fakes to throw down the field. He managed the game well and this was a classic case of taking what the defense gave him.
| RB Kenny Watson, Rush: 31 - 130 - 3, Rec: 3 - 27 - 0 (5 targets) |
Watson replaced Rudi Johnson once again this week, but had much more success this week than last. He scored his first touchdown from the three yard line on a cutback play after a penalty on a play action pass the previous play. Watson was extremely effective, chipping away for yards on first and second down very often. Cincinnati had been terrible on third down the previous two games, but this week they were able to convert on third down seven out of ten times.
| RB DeDe Dorsey, Rush: 7 - 23 - 0 |
Dorsey served as the backup to Watson and showed good moves as he looked quick. He made a juke move and a spin move to avoid runners on separate occasions.
| WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Rush: 1 - 8 - 0, Rec: 4 - 43 - 1 (7 targets) |
Houshmandzadeh got winded early in the first quarter, but he came back and continued to run routes over the middle without fear. He was held in the end zone in the second quarter on what would have been a touchdown catch; instead it ended up being a short touchdown run by Kenny Watson. Houshmandzadeh caught a short touchdown pass in the red zone, extending his touchdown streak to six straight games.
| WR Chad Johnson, Rush: 1 - 15 - 0, Rec: 3 - 102 - 0 (4 targets) |
Johnson saw his targets go significantly down, but he had no problems getting over 100 yards, hitting the century mark on just three catches.
| WR Glenn Holt, Rec: 4 - 54 - 0 (8 targets) |
Holt did a great job of drawing penalties against the Jets. He drew two pass interference calls. He was targeted more than any other receiver by Palmer, yielding five of them in the second half.
| TE Reggie Kelly (1 targets) |
Kelly was targeted on a deep out. He was mostly used for blocking when he was in, but Glenn Holt took a lot of his playing time.
| PK Shayne Graham 1 - 1 FG, 5 - 5 XP, 8 points |
Graham was sketchy in the kicking game, almost missing several kicks. He managed to overcome this and make all of his kicks, though.
| CIN Rush Defense |
The Cincinnati rush defense was solid, holding the Jets running backs to 78 yards. They forced Pennington to try to beat their secondary.
| CIN Pass Defense |
Cincinnati's pass defense has been terrible all year, and the first three quarters were no different. However, in the fourth quarter they stopped the Jets momentum by finally putting serious pressure on Chad Pennington and jumping one of the out routes.
