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Either you have a franchise quarterback or you don’t.
Chargers have theirs.
The Jets 0-10 are six more losses over theirs.
The dream survived and moved on Sunday: Justin Herbert vs. Trevor Lawrence, now THAT would be a fair fight everyone would love to watch.
Gallant Joe Flacco has never stopped fighting, has never stopped throwing himself, but too little and too late is never a formula for victory.
Flacco had somehow this last chance to try to overcome the wonder of Justin Herbert (37 in 49, 366 yards, 3 touchdowns).
The Chargers were in the middle of one of their inexcusable choke jobs.
One last chance, 32 meters from the chance to equalize the match.
One last chance to be Joe Cool.
Incomplete on the goal line for Denzel Mims, hand fight with Tevaughn Campbell.
A safety surrender with a second left ended him, Chargers 34, Jets 28.
Maybe if Flacco had managed to operate against the Kiddie Corps that populated the Secondary Jets and pass rushers stuck in molasses, it would have been a fairer fight. May be.
But now was not the time for Jets fans to be Wacko For Flacco.
And now Sam Darnold, if his shoulder gets him back against Tua Tagovailoa and the Dolphins, has six final chances to change the narrative on Lawrence and Justin Fields and the end of his troubled Jets career.
Herbert made it sound like a breeze: 277 passing yards and two halftime touchdowns. Pitch and catch with Keenan Allen (16-145-1 TD) anytime.
Only if Flacco hadn’t thrown a disastrous pick-six.
Only if he had shot his receiver, any receiver, in the first half.
Flacco was off the canvas in the opening possession of the second half, when he conceded a pair of third downs before hitting Breshad Perriman with a 49-yard pass against Casey Hayward.
And Herbert yawned and rolled left at third base and whipped a 10-yard TD to Allen against The Other Lamar Jackson, and it was 31-13.
Flacco started swinging for the home run, and Denzel Mims obliged with a 27-yard catch and 19-yard pass interference, and Frank Gore’s 80th career in the TD rush made it 31-19. His 10-yard TD pass to Chris Herndon gave the Chargers 34, Jets 26 with four minutes left.
It started with such a promise for the Boys of Bummer:
Kalen Ballage lame for his second race.
A Tarell Basham bag.
A Henry Anderson release block.
A raging Gore.
A 2 yard La’Mical Perine TD.
The first of two missed PATs from Sam Ficken. Do you want it all?
A Marcus Maye forced a fumble on Allen at NYJ 1!
And that’s all she would write.
Flacco, from his end zone, gave Campbell a pick-six on a lazy pitch to the right flat for Jamison Crowder.
Oh no Flacco!
Flacco’s second possession: three and one out.
Flacco’s third possession: three and one out.
By then, Herbert had found Mike Williams with a 39-yard TD against Arthur Maulet – with Maye colliding with him – and Tyron Johnson with a 2-yard TD on the heels of a 54-yard connection with Johnson with the LB surpassed Neville Hewitt. In front page.
0-10. The Trevor Lawrence Dream survives and progresses.
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