A look at the Bengals' 39-38 loss to the Jets at Paycor Stadium.

Numbers Games

For the first time in his career, NFL-leading receiver Ja’Marr Chase had his third straight game with at least 10 catches when he finished with a dozen for 91 yards. Four of them came in the second half for 30 yards.

Other numbers that carried the day were the Jets' 23 fourth-quarter points, 15 coming in the last 10 minutes when the Jets trailed, 38-24. Quarterback Justin Fields, 8-20 on the road as a starter and benched last week, was buoyed by a 255-yard rushing effort that lifted the league's lowest-ranked passing game.

The Jets had Chase blanketed in the last series on a drive the Bengals needed a field goal. His running mate, Tee Higgins, had two targets on a day he had a 44-yard touchdown catch with 10:45 left in the first half.

"Really, the fourth quarter, they double-doubled the whole time on every series," said Chase as he discussed the last drive. "They just doubled up me, Tee, and left 'Drei (Andrei Iosivas) one-on-one, and (ran) some blitzes."

Chase now has 70 catches this season and is on pace for 149, which would tie the NFL record set by the Saints' Michael Thomas in 2019.

Red Badge Of Courage Award

Joe Flacco was again brilliant in his third Bengals start, putting up 38 points with a 100.5 passer rating after hitting the Steelers for 106-plus. He now has seven touchdown passes and no picks as a Bengal.

But Flacco fell on his right shoulder after getting sacked the only time all day on third and long with 6:50 left by edge Will McDonald IV.

He went to the locker room, and it looked like Jake Browning was coming in with 1:54 left after the Jets took the lead.

But Flacco bounded in for that last series and looked OK. He threw three straight incompletions from the Bengals 44 and 45, two to Iosivas with Chase and Higgins both double-teamed. He had to unload the other in the face of pressure from a stunt.

"Landed a little awkward. I feel good right now," said Flacco of his quick entrance back into the game.

"It was so quick. There was not much conversing. It all happened so quick, and next thing you know you're out there."

Flacco indicated the shoulder is going to be checked again, but it felt good enough he could meet the press.

Quote of the Day

Jets head coach Aaron Glenn on the winning touchdown play with 1:54 left. Jets running back Breece Hall's first NFL touchdown pass, a four-yarder thrown on a toss play to the right on first-and goal from the Bengals 4 that barely fluttered over the hands of cornerback DJ Turner as he face-guarded rookie tight end Mason Taylor with a blanket:

"That's the call we've been practicing all week. And when we came to the sideline … we talked about the play, and I asked Justin, I thought it was really funny, I asked him how he was feeling about it. He was like, '(Crap), coach, it better work. We've been practicing it all week quite a bit. It better work.'"

Game-Changer

The Jets may have been winless, but some of those fourth-quarter 23 points were spectacular plays.

With the Jets going for two and down, 38-30, with 8:01 left, the scrambling Fields muscled a pass to running back Isaiah Davis despite rookie Bengals linebacker Barrett Carter grabbing his ankle and bringing him down.

Even with fellow rookie linebacker Demetrius Knight draped all over Davis and the initial ruling that Davis didn't have the ball over the goal line and the two-pointer had failed, the play was reversed.

"I saw him scrambling. I have to take a better angle right there," Carter said. "Although I did have an angle, I have to fit him up and actually tackle him better. That play shouldn't have happened. I just have to take better angle and get them down."

Touch of Class

As devastated as Bengals center and captain Ted Karras was about the loss, he made certain to pay tribute to former Jets All-Pro center Nick Mangold.

Mangold, 41, who played all 11 seasons with the Jets and went to seven Pro Bowls, died less than two weeks after he said he needed a kidney transplant. The Bengals held a moment of silence before the game in the press box, about 45 minutes from his hometown of Centerville, Ohio.

"An amazing man. I'm thinking about him and his family," Karras said. "He was obviously looking down on the New York Jets today. Big loss for the NFL. A man who was really a long-time hero for the center position."

Familiar Face Turns Villain

The Jets signed wide receiver Isaiah Williams off the Bengals practice squad the week after the opener, and he's bounced up and down New York's roster and practice squad enough to have come into Sunday with five games under his belt and logging eight returns on each punt and kick. On Sunday, he saved his best for last against his old mates.

Williams kickstarted the Jets' comeback, down 38-24 with 10:21 left, when his season-long 37-yard kick return set up a touchdown. After the Bengals had a three-and-out, Williams' season-long 21-yard punt return set up the winning touchdown.

What's Next

The 3-5 Bengals stay at home Sunday for a 1 p.m. game against 4-3 Chicago as the Bears come off a 30-16 loss in Baltimore in which they outgained the Ravens, 372-355.

It's the Bengals' first look at the 2024 first-round tandem of quarterback Caleb Williams and wide receiver Rome Odunze. Odunze had seven catches for 114 yards Sunday, and Williams didn't have a touchdown despite throwing for 285 yards. The Ravens rushed for 177 yards to bail out backup quarterback Tyler Huntley in relief of Lamar Jackson.

Slants and Screens

NFL sack champion Trey Hendrickson (hip) gave it a gutty go after getting ten days following his inactive against the Steelers, but he couldn't get out of the second quarter on a day the Bengals hit Fields once …

Turner has been brilliant at cornerback all month and had Taylor covered well on the winning touchdown as he had his back to Hall. But the 6-5 Taylor leaped to yank the ball away from him in the corner.

"You can't turn around, but just play through the hands of the big tight end," Turner said. "You just have to play and wrestle through the hands. That's what you have to do … I have to keep playing through the hands." …

Cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt came back from last week's inactive to start Sunday, and on the first play came up to drop Hall for a yard gain. …