New York Jets 22-16 Buffalo Bills:  Xavier Gipson wins it in overtime with walk off punt return touchdown in a sensational ending after Aaron Rodgers went off injured

The National Football League poked fun at conspiracy theorists suggesting the games are scripted – but how could they be? Who would ever be this ridiculous? 

There will never ben New York Jets’ mind-boggling 22-16 overtime victory vs. the Buffalo Bills is one of a kind. 

Within four plays of Gang Green’s dream marriage to Aaron Rodgers, the star-crossed lovers were separated. 

There may not be a reunion for some time, and while that is important – and devastating – to the 2023 future of the Jets, it did not matter while undrafted rookie Xavier Gipson danced his way down the sideline for a 65-yard game-winning punt return touchdown. 

It looked as if Groundhog Day had arrived again for the Jets. Their Great White Hope at football’s most important position replaced by the backup who held them back in 2022. 

On any other night that would have meant a loss which deflated all in Gotham Green inside MetLife Stadium. 

But, on September 11, 2023, the New York Jets showed a remarkable unwillingness to succumb to its past failings. 

The ghost of Favre and Tebow and Testeverde and Pennington all lingered for three quarters, until Robert Saleh’s All-Gas-No-Brakes Jets created a moment which will last in Jets folklore. 

Rodgers’ injury ‘is not good’ as Saleh told reporters postgame. His Achilles injury may spell the end of a dream, a decades-long dream could have died on the Jets’ fourth offensive play. 

Saleh said he learned nothing new but those crammed within JetLife Stadium, gained new insight into the toughness of Zach Wilson, who struggled throughout but helped haul the Jets into a winning position. 

Bills quarterback Josh Allen played his part too. Against a vaunted Jets defense he struggled to ever acclimatize 

While Rodgers’ potentially season-ending injury will take all the headlines, the Bills quarterback shrunk under the bright lights – throwing three interceptions, ultimately the difference between a divisional win on the road and a loss to a team which should have been broken, but quite simply refused.