It took a while for the A-Rod/Tae train to get under way, but Aaron Rodgers throwing some throwback throws mostly to his old friend and teammate Davante Adams, with big assists from Garrett Wilson, started rolling downhill in Jacksonville this afternoon even more effectively than it did in last week's first Florida road trip of the week.

The result: The Jets snapped their four-game losing streak and their struggles in one-score games with a nailbiting, ultimately satisfying 32-25 victory. Instead of leaving J-ville with a one-score loss, they leave it with a one-score win.

Some of the key individual metrics to make this happen: Adams had nine catches — all in the second half — for 198 yards and the 100th and 101st career touchdown catches of his storied NFL career.

"It wasn't working in the first half," Adams told newyorkjets.com's Ethan Greenberg. "We really couldn't figure it out. I had a drop over the middle there. We talked it over at halftime, and then we got a few opportunities and finally got to capitalize on them. It was a great way to finish."

"Fantastic player," said Rodgers, referring to his good friend and a teammate for most of his NFL career since they first teamed up with Green Bay in 2014.

Wilson, meanwhile, caught three Rodgers passes for 56 yards, one of them on the Jets' first drive of the game for his sixth score of the season, and also coaxed Jaguars defenders into two interference calls to keep second-half scoring drives moving to fruition.

Adams' yardage was the most by a Jets receiver in a game since Eric Decker's 221-yard explosion on 10 catches in the 2014 season finale at Miami. And it was his second-most yardage in an NFL game, trailing only the 11 catches for 206 yards and a TD, all from Rodgers in Green Bay's 25-22 OT win at Cincinnati in 2021.

All this coming after last week's 32-26 overtime loss at Miami, when Adams had nine catches for 109 yards and his 99th TD grab and Wilson took seven catches for 114 yards including a 42-yard long completion.

Wilson was a focus early for Rodgers (16-for-30, 289 yards). G got his first catch of the game — marking the 48th straight game he's had at least one catch, every game the Jets have played since 2022 — for 19 yards to the Jaguars 22 with five-plus minutes left in the opening frame.

On the very next play, Rodgers dropped back, looked left, then swiveled his vision toward the middle of the field, where he saw Wilson wide open. Rodgers dropped a dime into G's basket and the wideout backpedaled the remaining few yards into the end zone for TD No. 6.

It was also the Jets' first opening-drive touchdown in the last 15 games, so Rodgers-to-Wilson not only evened the game at 7-7 but also slew the OD monster on the same completion.

Wilson had an otherwise quiet first half with just those two catches. But he got things going on the Jets' first drive of the second half when he took off down the right sideline and was interfered with by CB Montaric Brown. It was a 30-yard penalty, the longest against a Jets opponent since Allen Lazard drew a 34-yarder in Week 4 vs. Denver, the longest in a Jets road game since 2021 Week 6 at New England, induced by Keelan Cole, for 46 yards.

The Green & White settled for Anders Carlson's 43-yard field goal on that drive to cut the hosts' lead to 13-10, but the Jags returned the favor on Cam Little's 43-yarder to let it back out to 16-10. At that point, no Jets receiver was getting many opportunities with Rodgers throwing only 10 times (five completions) in a mere 13½ minutes of possession time.

Then the Jets began to heat up. Rodgers hit the open Adams in stride over the middle for a 43-yard catch-and-run to the Jags 8. The next play, Wilson drew his second pass interference, this one on CB Tyson Campbell for 4 more yards. Next play: Rodgers swung a short pass to Adams, who was ruled out of bounds after replay review at the 1-foot line. So Rodgers went back to the well one more time, for the 1-yard fade to Adams for his TD No. 100.

Wilson's third grab came at an opportune time. After Jacksonville retook the lead 22-17 early in the fourth quarter, he took a tight-window throw from Rodgers 15 yards on second-and-10 to the Jaguars 34. But Carlson's first missed FG after seven consecutive successes left the Jets sitting precariously with that 5-point deficit, 4:19 to play and all three timeouts remaining.

Then it was really Tae Time. On second-and-10 from the Jets 29, Rodgers spotted Adams beating coverage down the middle of the field and let it fly. Adams gathered it in and stayed away from the Jags coverage and start on his second 100 scoring catches with a 71-yard TD strike. Then Rodgers went right back to Adams on the out-route at the left pylon for the deuce that put the Jets up, 25-22. At that moment, Adams had seven catches for 134 yards and the two strikes.

And he added to that with a Willie Mays-style (and we could even say a Garrett Wilson-style) catch over his shoulders on the left sideline on third-and-10 for 23 yards to the Jags 47, then a 41-yard open-field juke-and-move all the way to the Jags 1-yard line with 1:08 left.

"When I let it go, I felt it was a little too far outside — it was a ridiculous catch," Rodgers said. "That was the biggest play, the over-the-shoulder catch."

"Those are the best plays, when nothing's going on in your head," Adams said. "You're on auto-pilot in a good way. Fortunately I made a few plays before that and got into the groove."

You could imagine the gnashing of teeth had the Jets given up a tying TD to the Jaguars in that final 68 seconds. But Mac Jones' impressive game at the Jacksonville helm ended when instead of his receiver, he found Sauce Gardner downfield for Sauce's first pick in 37 games and more than two years.

Normally, Gardner's game-sealing heroics would be the big Green & White story. But Sunday it had to serve as a sidebar to the A-Rod and Tae show with a Side of G for the Jets' first road win of the season.

"Oh my God. It feels like since I've been here, we've been right there," Adams said of the Jets' too many close calls en route to their 4-10 record after Sunday's win. "Those small, little chances right there that didn't come out on the right side, they are the difference between being a horrible team and a great team."

But on the bus ride to the Jacksonville airport, the flight back to Newark Liberty, and the bus ride back to One Jets Drive, the Jets put horrible and great aside and settled for being a happy, relieved and finally winning team after the A-Rod-to-Tae show exploded on the scene late Sunday afternoon.