Darnold and Adams Ride the Escalator

Safety Jamal Adams is already a star and quarterback Sam Darnold has flashed that kind of potential at times during his first 20 NFL starts. The young pair shined throughout Sunday's 34-17 drubbing over the Redskins at FedExField as the Green & White moved to 3-7 overall with their second consecutive victory.

Although Darnold did have an interception he'd like to have back, the second-year passer threw a career-high four touchdown passes. He torched the Washington defense with both his arm and his feet, buying time and leaving defenders guessing in space. Adam Gase designed a sprint-right scoring pass from Darnold to Robby Anderson and Darnold made some wonderful plays off script including his 20-yard touchdown to TE Daniel Brown in the first and his 45-yarder to TE Ryan Griffin late in the second.

Darnold put it away early in the fourth with his fourth TD, placing the ball perfectly on a 29-yard rip to Jamison Crowder.

"I think the rhythm of our entire offense, the way that we're clicking right now, we're doing really well," Darnold said. "We're doing a really good job of maintaining the rhythm of our offense that we usually have. When we played in Florida those couple weeks, we had really good first drives, but we weren't able to sustain it. I think, for us, we're doing a really good job of keeping it going."

On the other side of the ball, the 24-year-old Adams is just a wrecking ball who continues to total everything in his way. The President stormed the Nation's Capital, racking up three sacks of rookie QB Dwayne Haskins. The trifecta are the most recorded by a Jets DB ever (sacks became official in 1982) and through 10 games, he's already set the team's all-time season sack mark for DBs with six.