Jets Nation would had to have been blind not to see Kerry Rhodes running a yard behind Marcedes Lewis on the 33-yard completion that essentially sealed a fate the Jets had been tempting since the opening kickoff.
But there was no justice in that. Rhodes, it turned out, was an innocent man.
“There should have been somebody over the top,” said the free safety, throwing that somebody under the bus, from where strong safety Jim Leonhard emerged with tire marks and an apology.
“Knowing we had a timeout, in hindsight we probably should have burned it. It was too late to try to get it changed. You saw what happened.”
After David Garrard, who got the ball back with 4:56 to play trailing by one, had twice moved the sticks on third-down conversions to Zach Miller and Mike Thomas (the second on a third-and-9), the Jacksonville quarterback nailed the slant to Lewis that put the ball on the Jets’ 14, setting up Josh Scobee’s chip shot field goal as the game expired.
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