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Jets score four field goals, no touchdowns, and the Chiefs pull away 35-12

New York went 2-for-12 on third down and 0-for-2 on fourth, and Kansas City scored 21 unanswered points in the second half.

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By Jets Desk, Pigskin NightlyNov 8, 6:41 PM ET3 min read

The deciding stretch

The Jets finished the game with four scoring drives and no touchdown drives. All 12 of their points came on field goals, including a 14-play, 64-yard march that ended with three points. Kansas City had five touchdown drives on 12 possessions, the longest a 10-play, 82-yard series, and went 4-for-4 in the red zone. New York was 0-for-1 there.

The score was 14-12 at halftime. The Chiefs then outscored the Jets 21-0 in the second half, and T.Kelce's 1-yard run at the 10:20 mark of the third quarter, worth 8 percent of win probability to Kansas City, was the point where the game tilted for good.

The drive killers were third and fourth down. The Jets converted 2 of 12 third downs and 0 of 2 fourth downs. Kansas City converted 6 of 11 third downs and its only fourth-down try. Three Jets drives ended in three-and-outs, against one for the Chiefs.

The swing

Two turnovers in the second quarter moved the win probability in opposite directions. At 6:29, Braelon Allen fumbled on a 5-yard run, and Kansas City's A.Gilman recovered at the New York 26. That cost the Jets 9 percent of win probability.

At 1:41, David Bailey sacked P.Mahomes for a loss of 10 yards and forced a fumble. W.McDonald recovered at the Kansas City 30, and the play moved the odds 9 percent back toward New York. P.Mahomes was injured on the play.

The Jets turned that takeaway into a field goal, not a touchdown. The first quarter held a similar story. At 5:40, New York challenged a ruling that the runner was down by contact, won the reversal, and gained 9 percent of win probability. The drive still produced only six points in the quarter.

Who moved the needle

Expected points added, or EPA, measures how much each play raises or lowers a team's scoring expectation. By that measure the Jets offense was at -0.302 per play on a 39 percent success rate. Kansas City was at +0.166 per play on 56 percent.

Geno Smith carried the biggest negative total, -10.4 EPA over 38 plays. He completed 18 of 32 passes for 165 yards with no touchdowns, and he was sacked five times for 42 yards. The team averaged 3.3 yards per pass. Adonai Mitchell was next at -6.5 EPA over seven plays.

The positive numbers came from the short and intermediate targets. Kenyon Sadiq had four catches on four targets for 49 yards and 3.4 EPA, the best total on the team. Omar Cooper Jr. caught 8 of his 11 targets for 58 yards and 2.0 EPA. Breece Hall added 1.3 EPA as a receiver and ran 15 times for 61 yards, a 4.1 average. Allen averaged the same 4.1 on eight carries.

On defense, Bailey had two sacks, three tackles for loss, three quarterback hits and nine tackles. Demario Davis and Jamien Sherwood each had nine tackles, and Minkah Fitzpatrick had eight. The Chiefs still ran for 163 yards at 5.1 per carry and piled up 27 first downs to the Jets' 15.

Where it leaves them

The defense did what a defense can do against an offense that keeps resetting. It forced two takeaways and got a sack-fumble from Bailey, yet Kansas City finished with 391 total yards to the Jets' 229. The Jets also held the ball for 31:04, and 12 points was all that time bought.

New York is 2-7 and has lost four straight. The Jets are 1-3 at home and 1-4 on the road, third in the AFC East ahead of only the 1-7 Dolphins. The Bills lead the division at 6-1 and the Patriots are 5-3. The Jets sit 12th in the conference.

The next game is against Buffalo at home on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 1:00 PM ET on CBS. The Jets' third-down rate, 2 of 12 against Kansas City, is the number to track against the division leader.

How this was reported. Every number in this piece comes from the play-by-play, drive, injury and snap data Pigskin Nightly collects for every game. EPA (expected points added) is from the open nflverse model. We do not use anonymous sources or invent quotes. Read how we write; spotted an error? Tell us and we will correct it in the open.