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25 Sep 2023


NextImg:Randall Cobb takes blame for not catching Jets’ Hail Mary: ‘Point blank’

Amazingly, the Jets still had a chance to win Sunday’s game with the Patriots right up until the last play.

The offense had been atrocious all day but the Jets were down 15-10 with one second left and the ball at their own 46 after a long completion.

Zach Wilson heaved up the Hail Mary into a group of players at the front of the end zone.

Patriots safety Kyle Dugger knocked the ball out of the air, but a diving Randall Cobb nearly caught it for what would have been a game-winning touchdown.

“We lost this game because I just dropped the Hail Mary,” Cobb told SNY after the game. “That’s point blank, period.”

Several of Cobb’s teammates mentioned his postgame speech to them, which centered around each of them looking in the mirror at what they could have done differently to win the game.

“I was just reiterating the message that it’s on me,” Cobb said. “I should have made that play for us to win the game regardless of what happened earlier in the game. What went our way, what didn’t go our way, we still had an opportunity at the end of the game to win the game. I expect myself to make that play.”

Zach Wilson’s pass in the final seconds of the fourth quarter as C.J. Uzomah has the ball batted away from him by Patriots safety Kyle Dugger, Randall Cobb gets a hand on the ball but fails to hold on.
Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

Cobb made his first catch as a Jet, a 12-yard gain that helped set up the Jets’ only touchdown of the game.

Cobb also drew a pass interference penalty in the back of the end zone on the same drive that put the ball at the 1-yard line.

No one would say exactly what happened on the defensive breakdown that led to the 58-yard touchdown pass from Patriots QB Mac Jones to an open Pharaoh Brown in the second quarter.

It was the only big play the Jets gave up in the game.

“Mistakes like on the 58-yard touchdown can’t happen,” coach Robert Saleh said. “They can’t happen. Unfortunately, it did.”

It was not clear exactly who screwed up on the play.

“It was just a little miscommunication on the back end,” CB Sauce Gardner said. Gardner said he would not point fingers at whose mistake it was.

Gardner on losing a 15th straight game to the Patriots: “I was talking to the defense earlier. I told them we might not have been here for 14 straight losses but we are here right now. We can end it right now. It’s definitely frustrating.”

Rookie DE Will McDonald was active this week after being inactive in Dallas but only played 10 defensive snaps, per ESPN’s stats.

    That was not the only puzzling snap count.

    WR Mecole Hardman played just two snaps on offense.

    TE Jeremy Ruckert played one.