But two plays later, receiver Laveranues Coles lost a fumble while being tackled by Bryan Thomas. Rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez completed 12 of 15 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown while rookie running back Shonn Greene rushed for 135 yards as New York followed up their 37–0 win over the Bengals in the last week of the regular season with a 24–14 victory.īengals rookie Bernard Scott started off the game with a 56-yard kickoff return to the Jets 36-yard line. The Bengals on defense against the Jets in the wild card game

CIN – Laveranues Coles – 6 receptions, 48 yards, TD.

NYJ – Dustin Keller – 3 receptions, 99 yards, TD.CIN – Cedric Benson – 21 rushes, 169 yards, TD.NYJ – Shonn Greene – 21 rushes, 135 yards, TD.CIN – Carson Palmer – 18/36, 146 yards, TD, INT.NYJ – Mark Sanchez – 12/15, 182 yards, TD.NYJ – Jay Feely 20-yard field goal, 5:47.CIN – Cedric Benson 47-yard run (Shayne Graham kick), 11:04.NYJ – Thomas Jones 9-yard run (Jay Feely kick), 2:18.NYJ – Dustin Keller 45-yard pass from Mark Sanchez (Jay Feely kick), 6:19.NYJ – Shonn Greene 39-yard run ( Jay Feely kick), 11:52.CIN – Laveranues Coles 11-yard pass from Carson Palmer ( Shayne Graham kick), 7:07.Wild Card playoffs Saturday, Janu AFC: New York Jets 24, Cincinnati Bengals 14 CBS broadcast the rest of the AFC playoff games and Super Bowl XLIV. Fox then televised the rest of the NFC games. In the United States, NBC broadcast the first two Wild Card playoff games. Although the Super Bowl, the fourth and final round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference. The two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5). The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference then receive a bye in the first round. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. The four division winners are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6. Within each conference, the four division winners and the two wild card teams (the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs. The Wild Card round featured three games that were re-matches of Week 17 games. The postseason tournament concluded with the New Orleans Saints defeating the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV, 31–17, on February 7, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Rodgers indicated he would have called 'heads' on the second toss if given the chance.The National Football League playoffs for the 2009 season began on January 9, 2010. 'He picked the coin up and flipped it to tails, and then he flipped it without giving me a chance to make a recall there. So we obviously thought that was not right.

It just tossed up in the air and did not turn over at all. 'He was showing heads, so I called tails, and it didn't flip. Rodgers was dismayed after the game because he said he makes his calls based on which way the referee is holding the coin. In the process, the NFL avoided a larger controversy had the coin landed on tails the second time. The Cardinals won, chose to receive the kickoff and promptly won the game on a 5-yard touchdown reception by receiver Larry Fitzgerald on the third play of overtime. This time, the coin did flip and landed on heads again. He did not give Rodgers the opportunity to change his call. It did not flip in the air and landed on heads, presumably making the Cardinals the winner.īlakeman, however, called off the toss, telling both teams that the coin hadn't flipped. Packers quarterback and captain Aaron Rodgers called tails, and Blakeman tossed the coin in the air. The event occurred with captains from both teams gathered at midfield at University of Phoenix Stadium. 'But the referee used his judgment to determine that basic fairness dictated that the coin should flip for the toss to be valid. 'There is nothing in the rulebook that specifies ,' NFL spokesman Michael Signora said in a statement.

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