The chant broke out with 3:32 left in the game.
The small, but vocal MetLife Stadium crowd began screaming “Mike White, Mike White, Mike White. …
The chant broke out with 3:32 left in the game. The small, but vocal MetLife Stadium crowd began screaming “Mike White, Mike White, Mike White.” Who would have ever predicted that? White, the Jets’ unknown backup making his first NFL start, threw for 405 yards and three touchdowns as the Jets shocked the Bengals 34-31 on Sunday. It was a stunning result after the Jets looked lifeless a week ago against the Patriots and the Bengals entered having handily beaten the Ravens. But White and Co. showed resilience and Robert Saleh’s crew pulled off a stunning upset, coming back from an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter. The Jets improved to 2-5 and the Bengals fell to 5-3. The Jets took the lead late in the fourth quarter after a strong sequence from both the offense and the defense. Trailing 31-20, the Jets cut into the Cincinnati lead with a 19-yard touchdown pass from White to running back Ty Johnson, who tiptoed down the sideline. Johnson was initially called for stepping out of bounds but Saleh successfully challenged the play and it was overturned for the touchdown. After a failed two-point conversion, it was 31-26. On the next series, Shaq Lawson deflected a Joe Burrow pass and intercepted it at the Bengals 14-yard line with 4:32 left in the game for the Jets’ first interception of the season. White quickly gave the Jets the lead with a 13-yard pass to tight end Tyler Kroft. The Jets then made it 34-31 with a trick play on the two-point try with receiver Jamison Crowder, taking a flip from Elijah Moore, throwing it back to White. The Jets’ defense then came up with a big stop. Sheldon Rankins sacked Burrow on third down, forcing the Bengals to punt. The Jets got a huge call with just under two minutes left when the Bengals stopped the Jets on third-and-11 but Bengals cornerback Mike Hilton was called for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Johnson that gave the Jets a first down and allowed them to run out the clock.
