Jets try a goofy fake play on kickoff return, and it turns out as you'd expect

In someone else's hands, the New York Jets' trick play on a kickoff return might work.

Here's what they did: Just before the kickoff, receiver T.J. Graham lay down and hid in the end zone. His green jersey was supposed to blend in with the green paint in the end zone. so nobody would see him. He'd get up and the other returner, Percy Harvin, would pass it to him across the field. Get it? TCU did this fake play against Oklahoma for a big gain a few weeks ago.

But this is the Jets, and of course it turned out to be a total failure.

The Bills covered pretty quickly, so by the time Harvin was ready to spring the trick, they were all over him. They weren't fooled, and Harvin was tackled at the 3-yard line without ever throwing the ball. Of course he was.

On a day when the Jets had two different quarterbacks turn the ball over three times each in a 43-23 loss, it wasn't the team's worst play. It was just the ugliest, and the one we can laugh about for a while.

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