But he did engineer the game-winning drive after Washington took the lead, 28-27, late in the fourth quarter.
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Sam Howell, who entered the game having thrown for 3,568 yards and 19 TDs, was just 6-for-22 for 56 yards and two INTs before he was pulled from the game by Washington and replaced by Jacoby Brissett in the third quarter.
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Seventeen points scored by the Jets in the first quarter, their most in a first quarter since 2014.
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“This game I feel like shouldn’t have been close at all. It was just good to get a win today, but you can’t be content about beating a team you feel you should have been beating already. But we’ll enjoy it.’’
The New York Giants (2-5) are hosting the New York Jets (3-3) this Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford.
Not much scoring is expected as the over/under has been hovering around 36.5 all week, per BetMGM.
There’s money to be made somewhere here but not on ‘sure’ bets. If you want to cash in, you’ll need to get creative and take a few leaps of faith.
Here are three prop bets that might pay off for you in this game, if you’re willing.
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The Giants’ defense has been excellent the past two games, allowing just 14 points to the Buffalo Bills and seven to Washington last week.
The Jets held the Philadelphia Eagles to 14 points last week.
Both teams are struggling offensively behind backup quarterbacks. The Giants will blitz Zach Wilson excessively and Tyrod Taylor is more of a ‘move the chains’ option than a big play one.
The Giants are averaging a league-low 12.1 points per game. The Jets are averaging 18.8.
If you can envision a 17-14 or less game, this is a solid play.
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Breece Hall is a beast and the Giants aren’t going to fully contain him. Sure, you can bet on him having over a certain amount of yards in this game (the number is 68.5) but that is going to get you less than even money.
Hall has scored a touchdown in each of the past two games and is the Jets’ best option in the red zone and on the goal line.
The Giants are 27th against the rush and 21st in the red zone. They have been playing better as of late, but +600 is a nice price for a stud running back to open the scoring.
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After a slow start, the Giants are figuring out that they have a massive mismatch player in Darren Waller, especially in the red zone.
Waller began the season dealing with an injury but is now healthy-ish. He is also now playing with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback instead of Daniel Jones.
Taylor seems to look more for Waller in certain situations than Jones had been.
Waller scored last week and was interfered with in the end zone on the final play in Buffalo the week before, so he’s in play again this week against a Jets defense that is allowing the most fantasy points to tight ends this season.
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Unfortunately for the Jets, they’re too late to save this season, which crumbled in the form of the six-game losing streak to end it.
But the Jets expect dynamic running back Breece Hall to return from his knee injury in time for 2023 as well as Alijah Vera-Tucker, their best offensive lineman, and Mekhi Becton, their mammoth tackle, who’s missed the past two seasons with knee issues.
The Jets were 5-2 and rolling when Hall and Vera-Tucker were lost for the season in the same game, at Denver. Without them, they closed the season 2-8.
Hall, a rookie, finished the season as the Jets’ leading rusher with 463 yards and four TDs — despite missing the final 10 games.
“After I went down, I feel like the offense wasn’t the same,’’ Hall said Monday. “I took part of that blame on me. That’s what they drafted me for — to be a game-changer, to be a big part of the offense, to be a playmaker. So, when one of your playmakers goes out and we lose AVT at the same time … the offense has lost two of its best players.’’
Asked if he’s optimistic about the team’s core, Hall said, “With me and AVT coming back healthy and Mekhi coming back healthy and all the pieces we have … we’re a playoff team. We have a top-three defense in the league and with me playing we had a top-10 offense. So, I think with me and AVT and Mekhi coming back we’ll be fine.”
Becton, speaking publicly on Monday for the first time since training camp, looked like he’s lost a lot of weight and sounded confident despite being out of the lineup for two seasons.
“I know what I’m about to do and what I’m gonna do, that’s what I’m looking forward to,’’ he said. “I know what I can do. I’m very motivated. You all seen me do it before, so why can’t I do it again?’’
Jets general manager Joe Douglas on Monday called this “a big offseason for Mekhi, and I think he understands that,’’ adding, “Certainly, our offense line has missed what he can do these last two seasons. This is a big offseason for him and it’s going to be important that he’s … in the best shape he can be in. That’s going to make for a healthy 2023 for him.’’
Hall said he spoke to several other high-profile running backs who’ve dealt with knee injuries seeking advice.
“I talked to Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, LeSean McCoy, Melvin Gordon, a lot of guys around the league, and they were devastated for me,’’ he said. “Just hearing what they had to say about attacking rehab and keeping mentally right, it was a lot [of help].
“You see some guys may not come back the same [from knee injuries], but some guys come back even better. For me, I want to attack it and have that mentality that I’m going to come back better, and I feel like I am.’’
Asked if he’ll be physically ready by training camp, Hall said, “I’ll be ready for whatever the coaches need me for. I feel like I’m recovering at a faster rate than normal, so I feel like I’ll be fine.’’
There were some high expectations for Jets running back Michael Carter entering this season.
Carter showed a lot of promise as a rookie in 2021 and figured to be a big part of the offense this season. But things have not gone as planned. Carter has 111 rushes for 398 yards and three touchdowns, all a drop off from his 147-carry, 639-yard, four-touchdown rookie season.
“I feel like I did some stuff well,” Carter said this week before Sunday’s finale against the Dolphins. “I feel like I could have done a lot more, but opportunities are something in this game, of course they’re earned, but sometimes it’s not.”
Carter said he was not complaining about a lack of touches. He led the team with 150 touches this season. He sounded more upset that he was mostly a third-down back this season and was not given the chance to do some different things.
The Jets had Breece Hall rolling early then traded for James Robinson before playing Zonovan Knight then Ty Johnson late. It felt like all season the Jets did not trust Carter to be the lead back.
Some of that clearly bothered Carter, something he said he has to learn from.
“I feel like I had a really good offseason,” Carter said. “The preparation has to meet opportunity. I feel like I was prepared. I feel like I came in in really good shape during OTAs and minicamp. I feel like I had one of the best camps. I just feel like it’s a long season and things happen. There are things that are out of my control. I feel like I do my best to control what I can and try not to let the external factors get to me.
“I think I kind of let stuff like that get to me.”
Carter said this season was a learning experience and he is excited about applying those lessons going forward.
“Sometimes you have to get knocked down to know if you’re going to get up,” Carter said. “I feel like that’s what this season has been about, showing myself who I am and proving to myself that I know I am who I say I am regardless of what goes on around me.”
Coach Robert Saleh said this week that sometimes a player’s second season is a challenge, and he expects Carter to rebound.
“He’s still someone that I think is going to have a really good bounce back in terms of, he still has a chance this week, but he is not done writing his story,” Saleh said. “He’s not the first nor the last second-year player to kind of get sidetracked or not have the year he wanted to have.
“But he’s got all the capability in the world, he’s got the speed, the body contact balance, breaks tackles, has great vision, he’s very smart, he’s got all of those tools and I think just another offseason for him, but again, that goes back to development and why I always say it takes three years because for some reason league-wide that second year, there’s always kind of a hiccup for one reason or another, but he’s one of those kids where you just feel confident that in year three he’s going to, he’ll bust loose.”
The Jets signed safety Will Parks, DE Bradlee Anae, OL Eric Smith, OL Adam Pankey and WR Irvin Charles to the active roster. They placed the following players on IR: S Lamarcus Joyner, CB Brandin Echols, OT Duane Brown, OT George Fant and G Nate Herbig.
The Jets were expecting the worst for Breece Hall’s injury — and it did become reality on Monday.
The Post’s Brian Costello confirmed that Hall suffered a torn ACL in Sunday’s win over the Broncos. The standout running back also suffered a minor meniscus injury.
“Breece doesn’t look good,’’ Jets coach Robert Saleh said after the 16-9 win. “The initial diagnosis is not good, but we’ll see. I’m going to stay optimistic as I can for him. He’s a heck of a football player.’’
Hall, a second-round rookie out of Iowa State, was emerging as the Jets’ top offensive threat. He had 681 total yards and five touchdowns on the season before going down with the injury.
Jets running back Breece Hall figures it can’t get any worse.
Hall had some tough moments in his NFL debut last week against the Ravens, with a fumble in the red zone and a dropped pass.
“Obviously, I felt like I could have done a lot better,” Hall said. “I had a dropped pass and a fumble and everything like that. I felt like I had all my rookie moments in one day. It was good to get that out of the way. Just knowing that the coaches still have faith in me, they still want to get me the ball whenever I’m in the game, it feels good.”
The Jets need Hall and his fellow back Michael Carter to both have strong games Sunday against the Browns. Cleveland’s pass rush, led by Myles Garrett, could make it a long day for the offense. But if the Jets can run the ball effectively, they could slow down the rush.
“We’re going to have to stay ahead of the sticks,” Hall said. “We’re going to have to slow those guys down, get chips on those guys, try to confuse those guys in any type of way. That’s going to be big for us this week. It’s going to be big for me and [Carter] to run the ball.”
Head coach Robert Saleh said last week was a learning experience for Hall and all the rookies.
“They’re not trying to make a mistake, they’re not trying to fumble, he’s trying to fight for extra yards, he spins out of it, you just got to remind him this league is different than college,” Saleh said. “The players are too fast, they’re too smart, they’re too ball-focused, so a great lesson for him.
“There was even one he was just talking about, he saw a crease and big Calais [Campbell] just grabbed him, and he’s like, that’s never happened to him before. So it just grabbed him, just to stop and he’s like, ‘Jeez,’ but for him, it’s just all of these guys, just that lesson. He didn’t realize how strong these guys are, so there’s just a different mindset when you’re trying to hit those creases, where in college he probably would’ve been gone.”
Hall said his coaches’ belief in him has kept him confident.
“I feel like they want to make me and [Carter] the identity of our offense,” Hall said. “Just knowing that they have that faith in me feels nice. I’m just focusing on the little things, squeezing the ball, protecting the ball, catching the ball and just let my natural ability take over. I’m not too worried about anything. I know I’m going to progress week by week.”
The Jets elevated OL Grant Hermanns and TE Kenny Yeboah from the practice squad for Sunday’s game.
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