John Morton took a page out of the Roberto Duran playbook.
With the Jets getting overwhelmed by the Broncos last Sunday in Denver, the first-year offensive coordinator waved the white flag. Down 23 points in the fourth quarter, he all but said “no mas” — the famous phrase Duran uttered in 1980 during his second fight against Sugar Ray Leonard — by calling for a number of running plays designed to kill the clock.
“Listen, the game was out of hand,” Morton said Thursday. “I didn’t want some bad stuff to happen. So at that time, I don’t like saying ‘no mas,’ but it was time to get out of there.