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After opening the season with four wins in five games, the Jets (4-3) have lost two straight. Only this time it came against an up-and-coming team looking to establish itself rather than the defending Super Bowl champion Patriots.
The Raiders also shut down the Jets running game. Chris Ivory, who came in averaging more than 100 yards a game,cheap nfl jerseys china, was held to 17 yards on 15 carries behind a line missing starting center Nick Mangold.
After scoring on the first seven drives in last week's 37-29 win at San Diego, the Raiders were once again almost perfect on offense at the start. Carr threw touchdown passes on the first drives as the Raiders controlled the line of scrimmage and broke numerous tackles in the secondary.
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Latavius Murray ran for 113 yards, Andre Holmes caught two touchdown passes and Michael Crabtree had 102 yards receiving and a score. Taiwan Jones added his first career score on a tackle-breaking 59-yard catch and run as the Raiders (4-3) exposed a New York defense that had been outstanding the first six games.
But Carr also showed the ability to throw the deep ball, connecting on a 49-yarder to Holmes that made it 21-3 late in the first half. Carr now has seven TD passes and no interceptions the past two weeks.
Smith then left in the closing minute on a hard hit by Ray-Ray Armstrong after being drilled earlier in the fourth quarter by David Amerson on a long run down the sideline.
"I may have been playing a little faster than normal simply because I hadn't played all year," Smith said. "I think once I settled down and got the feel of everything, I was able to play a little bit better."
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Fitzpatrick injured his thumb on a scramble on the opening drive. Former starter Smith threw for 265 yards and two TD passes in his first action since losing the job in training camp after getting punched in the locker room by teammate IK Enemkpali.
Both quarterbacks getting banged up and a lack of a running game didn't help matters.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick hurt his thumb on the opening drive. Geno Smith left briefly with an injured abdomen and left shoulder on New York's final drive.
"We probably had something like over 20-something missed tackles," defensive back Antonio Cromartie said. "That's something that we can't do. When you have the missed tackles, penalties and giving up long touchdowns, you're automatically going to lose that game."
Derek Carr threw for 333 yards and four touchdowns and the Jets struggled to get going offensively until the game was almost out of reach before losing 34-20 to the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.
"We had issues with everything," coach Todd Bowles said. "We didn't do anything well, so everything they did, they did it well."
"Unfortunately, just couldn't really grip the ball,China NFL Jerseys, couldn't really do anything with pressure," he said.
Carr was helped out by his receivers making big gains after the catch with Crabtree breaking tackles from Demario Davis, Cromartie and Marcus Williams on his 36-yard touchdown and Jones running around and through half the Jets defense on his long score.
Things didn't go much better in between as the Jets' vaunted defense got carved up for a second straight week,Jerseys NFL China.
Fitzpatrick returned despite the injury and threw two passes before Smith returned. Fitzpatrick will have an MRI to determine the extent of the injury. |
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