However, the Jets quickly rebounded with a 5-yard shovel TD pass from Smith to Chris Johnson to take the lead 10–7 going into halftime.

The Jets would never trail the rest of the game, although Carr threw a late TD pass to Raiders WR James Jones in garbage time, and attempted a failed onside kick.

A game-tying 37-yard touchdown throw by Geno Smith to Jeremy Kerley with five minutes to go in the fourth quarter was wiped out when assistant coach Marty Mornhinweg called the Jets' final timeout just as the ball was snapped; even more egregiously Mornhinweg was not authorized to call timeouts, the responsibility of head coach Rex Ryan.

The Jets failed to convert after this and fell 31–24; it marked only the second time for Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers that he won a game despite a deficit exceeding eight points.

[77] CBS imposed the "mercy rule" (switching to another program) towards the end of this game because of how poorly the Jets were playing.

With the loss, the Jets fell to 1–6 as they lost their sixth consecutive game and remained in 4th place in the AFC East.

The loss represented the first time that the Jets had lost six consecutive games since they dropped six in a row from Weeks 4–9 during the 2007 season.

at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey at Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan[A] With the loss, the Jets fell to 2–9, and were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention for the fourth consecutive season.