In the second half, Flacco got something going with Jamison Crowder, who scored a touchdown after a 52-yard pass brought the Jets down the field. Overall, though, Flacco’s efforts were futile compared to Cardinals' Kyler Murray. Flacco finished with an 18-of-33 line for 195 yards and a touchdown.

2) The Jets’ miscues in the first half on offense were suspect. The first was the decision by Adam Gase to go for it on the Cardinals’ 13-yard line on 4^th-and-1 instead of just taking the three points. There was no deviating from his third-down play call where a run was called up the middle. Le’Veon Bell was stuffed and the Cardinals took over. Then, after that interception, the Jets took a delay of game and killed the momentum.

3) Crowder, once again, had himself a big game. He recorded eight receptions for 116 yards as well as a touchdown. He was clearly Flacco’s favorite target of the day and he exploited him in the second half.

4) Bell also had a solid day in his return, but not enough to make a true impact. He had a couple good runs that led to bigger gains than what the Jets have been seeing in the run game. He ended his day with 13 carries for 60 yards (4.6 YPC) and one catch for seven yards.

5) Gregg Williams can’t like the way Murray was throwing the ball all over the field. The Cardinals’ sophomore signal caller had 380 yards in the air with a touchdown to DeAndre Hopkins coming as his only one of the day. There were a lot of chunk plays given up by the secondary. Hopkins finished with 131 yards but Christian Kirk (five for 78 yards) and Chase Edmonds (five for 56 yards) had good days as well.

What’s next

The Jets had a schedule change because of the Broncos-Patriots postponement, so they will be facing the Dolphins instead of the Chargers next week.

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