SANTANA MOSS ENDS THE CARDINALS WIN STREAK AT SEVEN
Nathan Poole outruns a diving Reggie Tongue on this catch. Poole had over 100 yards receiving in the loss to the Jets.
FIRST QUARTER
ARZ- Drew Henson 59 yard pass to Nathan Poole (Neil Rackers kick)
SECOND QUARTER
NYJ- Chad Pennington 3 yard pass to Santana Moss (Doug Brien kick)
NYJ- Chad Pennington 4 yard pass to Santana Moss (Doug Brien kick)
ARZ- Drew Henson 1 yard run (Neil Rackers kick)
THIRD QUARTER
NYJ- Chad Pennington 91 yard pass to Santana Moss (Doug Brien kick)
FOURTH QUARTER
NYJ- Chad Pennington 8 yard pass to Santana Moss (Doug Brien kick)
GLENDALE, AZ (AP)- Whatever praise said about the Cardinals secondary can be thrown out the window after yesterday's game. Santana Moss tore up the number one secondary in the league, catching seven passes with four of them being touchdowns in the Jets 28-14 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Things started off horribly for the home team as Larry Fitzgerald got rocked by Jets safety Jon McGraw on their opening drive. The star rookie got up from the hit woozy and went off to the sidelines... the Jets sidelines. Officials directed him to the Cardinals locker room where it was unsurprisingly discovered that Fitzgerald suffered a concussion. A few drives later Drew Henson found Fitzgerald's replacement, Nathan Poole, on a 59 yard touchdown to give Arizona an early lead.
Chad Pennington and the Jets offense struck back with a ten play drive that ended in Pennington's first touchdown pass to Moss, from three yards out. Henson came back and looked deep for Anquan Boldin, but the pass was underthrown and intercepted by McGraw. Pennington then went to work completing two passes before finding Moss again for another touchdown.
The Cardinals came back strong, starting with a 18 yard pass from Henson to Freddie Jones. An incompletion was followed by a Henson pass to Poole, and another throw to Jones. Poole caught a nine-yarder and then Emmitt Smith busted through the middle for 11. Two more Smith runs got Arizona three yards closer and then Henson found Kevin Kasper for three yards, leaving Arizona one yard short on fourth down. Henson called his own number and punched it in, but those were the only highlights of the game for the NFC West leading Cardinals.
Moss caught a slant early in the third quarter and went 91 yards for his third score and followed that up with an eight yard score late to put the game away. The Cardinals fall to 9-2 and will head to Ford Field to face the Detroit Lions next Sunday.
PASSING
NYJ- Chad Pennington (16-30, 243 yards, 4 TD) | ARZ- Drew Henson (22-34, 225 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT)
RUSHING
NYJ- Curtis Martin (15 carries, 55 yards), Jerod Sowell (3 carries, 7 yards) | ARZ- Erik Bickerstaff (5 carries, 25 yards), Emmitt Smith (12 carries, 22 yards), Henson (5 carries, 10 yards, 1 TD)
RECEIVING
NYJ- Justin McCareins (8 catches, 103 yards), Santana Moss (7 catches, 140 yards, 4 TD), Ken-Yon Rambo (1 catch, 0 yards) | ARZ- Nathan Poole (6 catches, 102 yards, 1 TD), Anquan Boldin (5 catches, 42 yards), Freddie Jones (4 catches, 51 yards)
TACKLES
NYJ- Eric Barton (9), Reggie Tongue (5), Donnie Abraham (4) | ARZ- Dexter Jackson (5), Adrian Wilson (4), Mike Rumph (4)
SACKS
NYJ- Shaun Ellis (1.5), Barton, Dewayne Robertson (0.5) | ARZ- Ronald McKinnon
INTERCEPTIONS
NYJ- Jon McGraw, Josh Evans
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