This game was a good game for him. We haven't been in field goal range the last couple of weeks. The last one, it's a tough one. I thought he hit it pretty well, I thought it was going in. We had a shot, hopefully we'll have more shots to win them.

He caught a lot of balls in one game all of a sudden. That's good. That helps you. ... I think he did a good job blocking. He's a good player. We drafted him as a blocking tight end who can catch the ball. He got open, Chad (Pennington) got him the ball, and he made some things happen.

A guy wasn't supposed to be on the field I guess, and was on there. He drew a blank and didn't get off the field. Errors like that kill you. Obviously it gave them three points. ... It wasn't young guys [making mental errors]. It was some veteran guys. You don't anticipate that, but it happened.

He's made a couple of great pass defends that show his range out on the field. He is the type of player that as a middle linebacker, he goes from sideline to sideline for us.

I addressed that six weeks ago. I still stand on what I said. I'm coach of the Jets. The season will end, we'll try to get this thing going in the right direction. We've got a lot of things to do here.

I felt that once we got to the 31, 32 yard line, we were in field goal range. We didn't want to get in the situation where we throw a couple incomplete passes and Pittsburgh had another timeout. It's like basketball; we were playing for the last shot.