The way the Jets quarterbacks dished the ball around in their 17-0 win at Pittsburgh on Friday was reminiscent of how a certain smiley-logoed multinational e-tailer gets products to multiple customers in a day or less. Against the Steelers, they worked hard, had fun and made a little summer history.
“Offensively, I thought Geno started out really well, and that was by design, to get our guys to see how efficient we can be and how we can move the ball, and I think those guys did a really good job,” head coach Aaron Glenn said of Smith’s return to action in a green and white uniform, but only for one uber-efficient drive. “It was good to see him hit five different receivers.”
Six, if you count G Dylan Parham, who fielded a deflected Smith pass for a 2-yard loss, the only minus in Smith’s 7-for-7 drive that began with two grabs by WR Adonai Mitchell and concluded with a touchdown pass to Jelani Woods — the big-target TE’s first TD catch in any game since 2022 with the Colts.
You could call Smith’s outing an “OD-TD mic-drop” game. Geno came on for his season debut with the Jets, led the offense to its opening-drive score, perhaps said, “My work is done here tonight,” then left the game. That’s something that happens almost never in the NFL regular season and rarely in the preseason.
The Jets, in fact, have had 8 of these OD-TD mic-drop preseason games since 2000. Filtering the list further, 4 of those 8 drives ended with a TD pass. Here are the QBs and their passing lines in those 4 games: