The question — What kind of a difference did Sam Darnold make? — produced a grin, but not because Le’Veon Bell found it funny. The Jets running back was happy the situation — the quarterback sparking a victory after missing three games with mononucleosis — produced such a question.
“Ya’ll tell me. Ya’ll seen it. Sam’s a special player,” Bell said after he won for the first time as a Jet, 24-22 over the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. “When you have a guy in there who’s able to make some plays, get the ball down the field, get everybody lined up perfectly in and out of the huddle, vocal leader in the huddle, he’s a special player.