Where he threw an out for Marshall and watched it bounce off his receiver’s hands into Walter Thurmond’s arms at the 18. But with 4:48 left, he blocked out his two second-half interceptions and began marching the Jets to the Philly 37. “I played like crap today, to be honest with you,” Marshall said.įitzpatrick had thrown touchdown passes to Marshall and then early in the fourth quarter to Kerley before failing to capitalize on the Jets’ lone defensive takeaway at the Philly 41 by getting a pass deflected at the line and intercepted by Jordan Hicks. He wasn’t celebrating his 10 receptions for 109 yards and a touchdown. “That’s backyard football, can’t do that … bonehead play,” Marshall said. He never should have entertained the thought. Marshall waited too late to pitch back to Jeff Cumberland. “He knows he can’t make that play, we both know he can’t make that play, he can’t pitch the ball, he understands that, he knows that,” Bowles said at his press conference. “The damage outweighs the reward so much,” Marshall said.īowles wasted little time pulling Marshall to the side on the sideline. But beasts are human sometimes, and to err is human, and Marshall was very human, on the field and off, standing up to receive his fair share of the blame.
He has gone public with the notion that he doesn’t receive enough credit, and he’s right. He was simply doing what the big boys are supposed to do - face the music like a man and take ownership of your brain lock. Marshall was not here for the Buttfumble. Mark Sanchez, who watched from the visiting sideline, would beg to differ, of course. “Wrong time to gamble … I was pressing, trying to make a play, but can’t do that,” Marshall said. When Fitzpatrick was handing off to Powell and Zac Stacy.
When Fitzpatrick was throwing to Jeremy Kerley and Quincy Enunwa and rookie Devin Smith and running back Bilal Powell. And certainly not on a day when Chris Ivory and Eric Decker weren’t playing. These Ryan Fitzpatrick Jets are not equipped to play catch-up and overcome deficits. Sure, Ryan Fitzpatrick huffed, and Ryan Fitzpatrick puffed, but he couldn’t blow down the Eagles, 24-17 winners over the 2-1 Jets Sunday at MetLife Stadium. What Marshall made happen was 24-0 Eagles. You knew what Brandon Marshall was thinking - or not thinking - when he made the kind of bonehead play that wise old veterans rarely make: my Harvard quarterback may be a Rubik’s Cube genius, but he isn’t getting us anywhere near the end zone. Brandon Marshall tries to lateral to Jeff Cumberland (85) leading to a second-quarter fumble in the Jets’ loss to the Eagles.
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