This was hardly a Super Bowl championship on the line for Sam Ficken and the Jets, he wasn’t Scott Norwood at the end of Super Bowl XXV, or Adam Vinatieri at the end of Super Bowls XXXVI and XXXVIII.
But make this 44-yard field goal, and Adam Gase avenges that inexcusable defeat to his former team; miss it and he trudges out into the night carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, wondering whether this fickle and humbling roller coaster NFL career would ever end.
Al Riveron had correctly overturned a controversial pass interference non-call on Vincynt Smith against Nik Needham on third-and-18 in the final minute, and Gase trusted Ficken so much that he made no effort to get him closer than the 26 and instead called a Ty Montgomery run up the middle for no gain with no timeouts left.