The first half had little to cheer about. At the half, Jets were dominating in yards (209-64) and score 24-3. Sanchez has 2 TDs against the porous Texans defensive backfield. Madden simulation was very accurate on that account. A long TD at the start of the 3rd extended that lead to 31-3 seemed to put the game away. Then the Texans came alive. A solid long drive led to a 1 yard Derrick Ward TD run, followed by a 3 and out by the Jets. Then Schaub hit Andre Johnson for a huge 60 yard touchdown to cut it to 31-17. Another stop, another Texans TD to Jacoby Jones, put the Texans one score behind.
But that was as close as they would get. The Jets responded quickly with a 1 yard dive into the endzone by Shonn Greene. Despite the absurd spelling of his first name, they allowed the TD to stand. Texans responded with another couple of Jacoby TDs, but never got the game tied up.
The story of the game was a few big plays:
Sacks: Jets 3; Texans 0
Turnovers: Texans 2; Jets 0
The Texans never got pressure on Sanchez and the Jets seemed to get first downs at will. In the end, the Texans never did make that big game changing play, despite playing incredible on offense.
FINAL SCORE: JETS 45 - Houston 38
Player of the Game - Mark Sanchez
| Passing | ||||||
| Player | Team | Att/Comp | Yards | TD | Int | |
| Schaub | Texans | 26 of 38 | 342 | 4 | 0 | |
| Sanchez | Jets | 19 of 31 | 310 | 3 | 0 | |
| Rushing | ||||||
| Player | Team | Att | Yards | AVG | TD | |
| Tomlinson | Jets | 25 | 142 | 5.6 | 1 | |
| Foster | Texans | 19 | 89 | 4.6 | 0 | |
| Greene | Jets | 7 | 28 | 3.9 | 2 | |
| Ward | Texans | 6 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | |
| Texans | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Sanchez | Jets | 1 | -2 | -2.0 | 0 | |
| Receiving | ||||||
| Player | Team | Rec | Yards | AVG | TD | |
| Daniels | Texans | 7 | 119 | 16.9 | 0 | |
| Keller | Jets | 7 | 73 | 10.4 | 0 | |
| J. Jones | Texans | 5 | 50 | 10.0 | 3 | |
| Holmes | Jets | 5 | 125 | 25.0 | 2 | |
| Foster | Texans | 4 | 32 | 8.0 | 0 | |
| Walter | Texans | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 0 | |
| Edwards | Jets | 3 | 55 | 18.3 | 1 | |
| A.Johnson | Texans | 2 | 70 | 35.0 | 1 | |
| Leach | Texans | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 0 | |
| Tomlinson | Jets | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | |
| Ward | Texans | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 0 | |
| Dressen | Texans | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | |
| Smith | Jets | 1 | 29 | 29.0 | 0 | |
| Richardson | Jets | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 |
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