"I didn't know he was that quick," defensive back Hank Poteat said.

Poteat whiffed at first on Fitzpatrick on a second-quarter blitz, but kept chasing him and finally got a strip sack. Calvin Pace's recovery at the Cincinnati 24 set up Jones' second touchdown.

"I just stayed with it," Poteat said. "I wanted to make a play and help the team out."

--Rookie LB Vernon Gholston briefly replaced Bryan Thomas when Thomas left in the third quarter with a left calf injury, and Gholston made no tackles in 13 snaps. Coach Eric Mangini was asked if he is concerned with Gholston, who has yet to record a sack.

"No, when I'm going to be concerned is when we're not making progress," Mangini said, "and when we're not seeing him get better, week-in and week-out. That to me is a concern. In terms of what the level of progress is going to be each week, I can't predict that, but it's got to be progress and the concern becomes when you take a step back, as opposed to a step forward."

Gholston's learning curve from 4-3 defensive end to 3-4 outside linebacker has been a steep one.

--P Reggie Hodges finally made his Jets' debut and had two punts for a net of 32.0 yards, although one of them went to the Cincinnati 4, where Antonio Chatman made an ill-advised fair catch.

"He didn't get many shots," Mangini said of Hodges. "I thought the punt that he had there to pin them down at the 4 was good. I thought his first punt for us was pretty good. [There were some] things that could be a little bit better in terms of the stride he took, the drop. Those are things that I think are inherently correctable."