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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Six, if you count G Dylan Parham<\/a>, 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<\/a> and concluded with a touchdown pass to Jelani Woods<\/a> \u2014 the big-target TE’s first TD catch in any game since 2022 with the Colts.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The way the Jets quarterbacks dished the ball around in their 17-0 win at Pittsburgh on Friday was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[241,139,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-270253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}