East Rutherford, N.J. - New York leads Miami 10-3 at the halftime break Monday night, and they did it the old-fashioned way.
By outright possession of the line of scrimmage through thirty minutes.
Bringing the league's third-best rushing offense into the night, New York outrushed Miami 210-15, after outgaining them 134-10 in the first quarter.
Chris Johnson rushed 11 times for 85 yards in the half, including a long of 47 gained on three cuts in traffic in the first quarter that led to the Jets' touchdown.
Chris Ivory gained 45 yards on 10 attempts. Jeremy Kerley added 38 and Percy Harvin 18 more on the ground.
New York (2-9) began from their own 6 yard line on their second drive in the second quarter. Chris Ivory carried for 8 over the middle for the team's 13th-straight rush and Percy Harvin snagged a pass through traffic to convert a 3rd-and-2.
Ivory rushed right after spinning from a would-be tackle at the line and galloped to the 29 and on 3rd-and-1 Harvin took an option-pitch from Geno Smith over the left for the conversion.
Jeremy Kerley took an end-around over the right for another first-down to the Miami 47 and at the five-minute mark, Ivory rushed for 11 more. Smith's toss to Percy Harvin on 3rd-and-5 was high down the sideline and Nick Folk missed the 48 yard field goal to the left.
Folk connected from 40 yards earlier, on a 44 yard drive, extending the Jets' lead 10-0 to open the second quarter as he is 19-of-22 on field goal attempts this season.
Miami's Ryan Tannehill connected on 3rd-and-4 to Dion Sims for a 20 yard gain to the Jets 25 with a minute left in the half. But David Harris sacked Tannehill on the next play after racing through the middle untouched for a 10 yard loss.
Mike Wallace got 8 yards back as he caught along the sideline and out of bounds but on 3rd-and-13 Landry's reception came well short.
Caleb Sturgis kicked from 43 yards as time expired on the half, having missed a 43 yarder in the first quarter.
Ryan Tannehill is 15-of-19 for 128 yards passing for Miami (6-5).
New York opened scoring on a 20 yard touchdown rush from Greg Salas, whose end-around give from Smith sailed through the Dolphins' secondary and into the end zone untouched for the 7-0 lead.
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