A legendary New York sports announcer was famous for frequently saying, “You can’t predict baseball.”

He was right. He also would have been right had he ever declared, “You can’t predict football.”

Who could have predicted what played out on the field in Week 8 in Cincinnati? The Jets had a quarterback struggling so badly that he probably would have been benched had his backup not been too injured to travel with the team. He was without his two best wide receivers on a team with precisely one quality wide receiver.

So what happened? The Jets offense racked up 39 points and 502 yards.

The quarterback, Justin Fields, played excellent football, completing 21 of 32 passes for 244 yards and looking more confident than he had since a stellar Week 1 outing against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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