Marino the Magician Strikes Again : AFC: Ingram catches four touchdown passes, fake spike catches Jets napping in Dolphins’ 28-24 victory.

Dan Marino, who has pulled some pretty nifty tricks during his career, used a fake spike that worked to perfection in providing the Miami Dolphins with the winning touchdown in a 28-24 come-from-behind victory over the New York Jets on Sunday.

With time running out and the Dolphins out of timeouts, Marino acted as if he were going to spike the ball to stop the clock with 22 seconds to play. Instead, he threw an eight-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Mark Ingram.

“Credit Bernie with coming up with that play,” Marino said of backup Bernie Kosar, who used the gambit while with Cleveland.

Said Kosar, “It’s a play we used when I was younger. I called it on the headset before the play. We put it in the playbook a few weeks ago and we’ve been tinkering with it.”

The Dolphins’ tinkering helped them take a two-game lead in the AFC East as they rallied from 17-0 and 24-6 deficits.

Ingram scored Miami’s four touchdowns, all in the second half, and Marino completed 24 of 30 passes in the second half, the last one fooling the Jets (6-6).

“It’s just a clock play,” Marino said. “We’ve talked about it, it just never came up. I called the play to throw it into the ground. Mark’s the only guy who has got to know what I’m really doing.”

Cornerback Aaron Glenn, who was beaten by Ingram for two touchdowns--as was teammate James Hasty--certainly didn’t know what was going on. He had his back to the quarterback when the pass came.

Many of the other defenders stopped on the play.

“I really thought he was going to spike it,” said Glenn, who had his worst game of an otherwise strong rookie year. “It looked like he was going to stop the clock. By the time I caught up with what was happening, (Ingram) was behind me.”

And the Dolphins (8-4) were winners, despite being outplayed for the first 40 minutes.

But then Marino went to work. With the Dolphins trailing, 24-6 (a conversion pass failed after Ingram’s first touchdown reception), Marino completed five of six passes on a 67-yard drive and connected with Ingram over Glenn for a 17-yard touchdown. Then Marino and Irving Fryar beat Glenn on a two-point conversion.

Troy Vincent’s interception at the Miami 37 gave Marino another chance early in the fourth quarter. He needed only five plays--all completions--to go 63 yards, with Ingram scoring on a 28-yard pass play, making it 24-21.

Marino got the ball again with 2:34 remaining. He completed seven of eight passes in taking the Dolphins 84 yards.

For the game, Marino was 31 of 44 for 359 yards, and Ingram had nine receptions for 117.