Clutch defense powers Jets' upset win over Eagles - ESPN

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Jets lost star quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the fourth play of the season, and now they're taking it out on the elite quarterbacks they encounter on their schedule.

Their latest victim was Jalen Hurts, whom the Jets intercepted three times — twice in the fourth quarter — to spark a 20-14 upset of the previously undefeated Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday at MetLife Stadium. It was the Jets' first-ever win over the Eagles after 12 losses, dating to 1973.

«These first six weeks, we played a gauntlet of quarterbacks and I know we haven't gotten all wins, but we've embarrassed all of them,» coach Robert Saleh said after perhaps the biggest win of his 40-game tenure.

Maybe Saleh forgot about Dak Prescott, who ripped them for 255 yards and two touchdowns. But against Patrick Mahomes, Hurts and Josh Allen, who finished 1-2-3, respectively, in the 2022 NFL MVP voting, the Jets recorded eight interceptions with only three touchdown passes. They lost a 3-point game to Mahomes, but they delivered big play after big play in taking down Allen and Hurts.

«Our mindset is to scare — I mean, not scare people. Our mindset is to overpower people with our speed and our violence,» said linebacker Quincy Williams, who had one of the team's four takeaways — a fumble recovery. «So that's the biggest thing. So that's our identity — violence.»

And clutch plays.

After the two-minute warning, safety Tony Adams set up the game-winning touchdown by intercepting Hurts on a third-and-9 pass from the Eagles' 46 — his first career interception. Hurts threw into double coverage. Tight end Dallas Goedert was covered by Williams and Adams read it perfectly, returning it 45 yards to the Eagles' 8-yard line. Breece Hall