Pass the cayenne pepper.
The Jets snapped their five-game losing skid with a 21-13 victory over the Texans on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium.
Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said this week that he was drinking a concoction of water and cayenne pepper in it that he called a “fountain of youth.”
Rodgers did not look like his 25-year-old self last night but he threw three touchdowns and made enough plays for the Jets to win their first game in more than a month.
The win moves the Jets to 3-6 and keeps alive the faint heartbeat of their season.
The Texans fell to 6-3.
It was the Texans and not the Jets this week with the fourth-quarter mistakes that cost them the game.
Kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn missed a 27-yard field goal after making a field goal that was wiped out by a penalty earlier in the drive.
Fairbairn had two missed field goals in the game.
The Jets are used to being the team with the kicking woes.
The Texans defense could not come up with a stop late in the game.
After Garrett Wilson’s incredible one-handed catch early in the fourth quarter gave the Jets the lead, they put the game away with an eight-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 37-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Davante Adams that made the lead 21-10.
Adams had exited the game briefly to be checked for a concussion and returned to score his first touchdown as a Jet.
Rodgers was 22-of-32 for 211 yards and the three touchdowns.
