Garrett Wilson reached to the heavens and caught the Jets season with one hand and saved it from falling into everlasting darkness.
Wilson saved Aaron Rodgers’ season.
It was third-and-19 on the Texans’ 26 when Rodgers lofted a rainbow that Wilson snared together with his proper hand, falling backward in opposition to Darryl Stingley behind the tip zone. It was dominated incomplete. After which overturned — his proper shin touchdown in-bounds.
A catch proper out of the Odell Beckham Jr. playbook.
Jets 14, Texans 10, on its approach to 21-13.
It was Wilson’s second one-handed TD catch of the night time.
Wilson was going to play second fiddle to Davante Adams.
He stated to hell with that.
Adams had been out of the sport to be evaluated for a concussion and Rodgers turned to Wilson.
When Adams returned, Rodgers discovered him with a picture-perfect 37-yard TD cross and it was Jets 21, Texans 10.
Rodgers, following a primary half during which the emotionally bludgeoned boo birds had been chanting, “Promote the workforce!” at Woody Johnson, should have poured himself some cayenne pepper and water within the halftime locker room.
He used a balanced assault and the primary one-handed catch from Wilson for the 21-yard TD that made it Jets 7, Texans 7.
You’ll be able to’t simply snap your fingers and go Again to the Future. You’ll be able to miss a whole season and switch 40 and dream about doing what Tom Brady did and uncover that it was little greater than The Not possible Dream.
So right here was Aaron Rodgers, trapped in a physique quickly to be 41, trapped inside a franchise that can’t shake Kotite’s Legislation, previously often called Murphy’s Legislation, desperately searching for to exorcise demons he had solely heard about from afar.
Desperately looking out nonetheless for MVP Aaron.
He can nonetheless offer you glimpses of MVP Aaron.
Particularly on an evening when Wilson can remind him of the younger Adams.
For Rodgers, it was his first three-TD recreation of the season.
Wilson allowed him to show the jeers to cheers.
The Texans had taken a 7-0 lead on Joe Mixon’s 3-yard TD run on the finish of a 98-yard drive that consumed 8:23 of the second quarter.
It ought to have been 7-7.
Rodgers was sprinting to the tip zone on the opening play of the second quarter to congratulate rookie Malachi Corley as a result of Corley had taken a pitch proper to the home for a 19-yard TD.
As a result of these are the Jets, Corley nonchalantly dropped the ball inches earlier than he crossed the aim line.
Landing to touchback within the blink of a watch.
The boo birds should have sounded deafening to Rodgers after Denico Autry sacked him on third-and-10.
And once more after Adams dropped a missile after which did not march the Jets into FG vary from the NYJ 46.
The longer term first-ballot Corridor of Fame quarterback completed the half 7 of 14 for 32 yards.
That is how Rodgers, from his 11, had begun the sport:
A throw out of bounds on the precise sideline for Adams.
A brief throw over the center dropped by Breece Corridor.
A sack by Autry.
That telepathy between Rodgers and Adams? His trusted receiver zigged, and Rodgers anticipated him to zag on a sideline fake pas on the subsequent sequence.
Then Garrett Wilson reached to the sky and adjusted every little thing.
