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Jets lose Leonhard for the season again with knee injury

For the second straight year, Jets safety Jim Leonhard will miss the stretch run of the season, a reality he called both eerie and frustrating. He was placed on injured reserve yesterday after tearing the patellar tendon in his right knee in Sunday's 37-10 win against Kansas City.

"It's not the way that you envision your season ending, but it’s the risk you take when you play this game," Leonhard said today on his weekly spot on WFAN's Joe and Evan Show. "It is frustrating, especially for the second year in a row. Really have no reason why. The last two years, out of my seven in the NFL, I've felt as good as I ever had going into December. And then to have two kind of fluky things happen like this and end the season short, it definitely is frustrating."

Leonhard said he will have surgery tomorrow morning. Afterward, he will rehab at the Jets facility and "do whatever you can" to help out, depending on how he feels post-surgery.

 

Jets pound Chiefs, playoff march continues

Mark Sanchez and the New York Jets got going in a hurry — for a change — and never stopped.

The Kansas City Chiefs? Well, this is one they’d like to quickly forget.

Sanchez threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores as the Jets kept pace in the AFC playoff race by cruising to a 37-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

The Jets, plagued by slow starts all season, scored 28 points in the first half and were helped by an inept Chiefs offense that managed just 4 total yards in the first two quarters.

Sanchez was 13 of 21 for 181 yards before being pulled for Mark Brunell with the game in hand, and was cheered warmly in pregame introductions after being booed in the team’s last home game two weeks ago. Shonn Greene had a season-high 129 yards rushing and a score, and Santonio Holmes and LaDainian Tomlinson each caught touchdown passes for the Jets (8-5), who have won three straight and improved to 6-1 at home. (continue)

Another 4th quarter win for Jets

Another shaky performance for three quarters by Mark Sanchez and the Jets. And then, another fourth-quarter comeback.

Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 30-yard touchdown pass with 4:49 to play Sunday, and Shonn Greene added a pair of insurance scores to give the Jets a 34-19 win over the Washington Redskins, keeping New York in the realistic hunt for an AFC playoff berth

It was Sanchez's 10th career fourth-quarter comeback or overtime victory, including the playoffs, and his second in as many weeks. The Jets (7-5) scraped by the Buffalo Bills last Sunday, the first step in the team's stated mission to win out and make the postseason for a third straight year.

But the playoff surge machine again looked more like a combustion engine missing a few spark plugs as coach Rex Ryan's team pulled off another mistake-filled win. New York had only 168 total yards after three quarters, committed untimely penalties and had another special teams turnover against the Redskins (4-8), who have lost seven of eight. (continue)