Jets Again Unable to Touch Down

The New York Jets have bigger questions to answer than who their quarterback will be next week.

Like, can they score a touchdown? Can they learn how to tackle better? And can they figure out how to win another game?

Led by 237 yards from Fred Taylor--142 rushing and 95 receiving--the Jacksonville Jaguars made the Jets look hapless again Sunday, defeating them 28-3.

“We played like kids out there,” Jet running back Curtis Martin said. “We didn’t play like an NFL football team.”

Stacey Mack scored three touchdowns for Jacksonville (2-1)-- three more than New York has scored in the last two weeks. The Jets (1-3) have been outscored, 102-13, in three consecutive losses, their worst three-game stretch since 1962, when they were known as the New York Titans.

The Jets came into the game with Martin limping on an injured ankle. They finished with Vinny Testaverde on the bench after he took a hard hit early in the game that left him with a bruised right shoulder and a pinched nerve.

A quarterback controversy looms, although it’s hard to tell if it matters who lines up under center. Coach Herm Edwards must choose between Testaverde, who thinks he’ll be healthy by next week, and Chad Pennington, who threw for 281 yards but had no more luck than Testaverde did last week getting the Jets in the end zone.

“I don’t think that’s on his mind right now,” Testaverde said, when asked about Edwards’ pending quarterback choice. “He’s got other problems than who the quarterback is going to be.”

Meanwhile, all is well for Jacksonville, which has a winning record for the first time in a year.