Jets’ Sauce Gardner bails out Jeff Ulbrich, gets Mac Jones ‘revenge’ with rare interception
NY Post
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jets already had five blown fourth-quarter leads this season, as good a reason as any that they entered Sunday’s game against the Jaguars with a 3-10 record and weeks removed from any thoughts of a playoff berth.
But, true to the script of their season that has been doomed by seven losses by six or fewer points, there were the Jets on Sunday at EverBank Stadium clinging to a fourth-quarter lead.
The Jets had taken a 32-25 lead on a Breece Hall 1-yard scoring run with 1:05 remaining in the game.
Interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich employed questionable clock management when, from the 1-yard line, he called for a run instead of having Aaron Rodgers take a knee to burn time, leaving the Jags with that 1:05 and two timeouts with a chance to insert yet another dagger into his team’s heart.
The Jets defense had not exactly been stopping the Jags, yielding 27 first downs and 421 yards of offense to quarterback Mac Jones.
So, if you were a Jets fan hoping for the defense to hold and you had little confidence, you’d be easily excused.