CINCINNATI — You didn’t need to be a longtime Jets observer to know that when they faced fourth-and-1 from their own 49 with 8:41 left in a game in which they trailed the Bengals by 14 their opportunity to win was downright dim. Even the unemotional number crunching machines that look into such matters came up with the same conclusion: According to the league’s Next Gen Stats, there was just a 2.9% chance of them pulling out a victory when that snap occurred.

But it was a longtime Jets observer who wound up helping to change those odds .

A lot would happen afterward. Breece Hall ran for his second touchdown of the game and then threw the game-winning scoring pass to Mason Taylor. Justin Fields would throw a two-point conversion pass to Isaiah Davis that was initially ruled short of the

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