It’s the most thrilling, slightly crazy and dangerous role ever. Wide receiver. Receiver. A priority task: catch and hold onto any ball that flies your way. Near or distant. It does not matter. You have to take it and not let go. Second mission: if possible, when possible, gain some more damn yards if you have resisted the blows that you will inevitably suffer and you are not already for the lands. Garrett Wilson, a talented 25-year-old, knows all this well. He arrived in the NFL from Ohio State showing exactly the aptitudes listed above. But yesterday, he definitely did something memorable. To tell.
We are at the beginning of the third quarter and the Jets are making the usual humiliating effort, given the quality roster, this time ahead of the Texans of the baby phenomenon Stroud, a team relaunched by the young quarterback and rightly ambitious. Houston is in front, slightly but in front of the New Yorkers: 10 to 7. It’s a third and 17, when Aaron Rodgers, who for many is at his wit’s end and should just retire (we are not among them), suddenly shakes off off me the dust of an impalpable first half and launches. A very powerful and high 26 yard trajectory. It seems, at first glance, really impossible to receive. Taking into account then that the end zone is not infinite and that “missile” must not only be caught but must be made so that both feet touch the ground.
It’s Wilson’s masterpiece. The wr has a feline reflex, even though he is being followed by a defender, the cornerback Kamari Lassiter, he makes a leap which to many seemed to be the one iconicized in the t-shirts dedicated to Michael Jordan and, falling backwards, he extends his right arm and sticks to the palm of the hand that “bomb”.
He completes everything by managing to also touch his right foot, after his left, on the end zone before finishing out of the field. Fantastic. The replays necessary for the referees to guarantee the regularity of the touchdown confirm the exceptional catch. Which in part certainly recalls the formidable one from a few seasons ago of OBJ when he wore the colors of the Giants in a match against the Cowboys. But this, in our opinion, is even superior.
It’s also the turning point of the match. The Jets get back upstream and never let go, winning a fundamental victory for morale and above all for their remaining playoff hopes. It must be said that this young and very strong wr had already thrilled the crowd shortly before with another one-handed catch, less spectacular but no less difficult, transforming a pass from Rodgers into a 21-yard touchdown.
Completing the Jets’ joy is the newfound harmony between Aaron and Adams, for a touchdown that effectively sealed the game also because Davante himself then took the Texans’ desperate onside kick.
Nightmare night for Stroud, mistreated by the Jets defense, hit hard several times, felt the pressure and was unable to make a difference. It must be said that he had his weapons blunt because his two wr, Collins and Diggs are injured and that Mixon alone, who is also doing very well, was not enough this time.
However, the prospects for Houston remain good, provided they don’t lose other starters along the way, while Rodgers and the Jets are called upon to win practically all of them if they want to see the play offs.
A feat. But with a newly motivated Rodgers, a remarkable battery of receivers, and that defense enriched by the rediscovered Reddick, woe betide them already for dead.
NEW YORK JETS 21 Houston Texans 13
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