Jets snap five-game losing streak with much-needed win over Texans

Pass the cayenne pepper.

The Jets snapped their five-game losing skid Thursday night with a 21-13 win over the Texans at MetLife Stadium.

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said this week that he drank a mixture of water and cayenne pepper that he called a “fountain of youth.”

Rodgers didn’t look like his 25-year-old self last night, but he threw three touchdowns and made enough plays for the Jets to win their first game in more than a month.

The win moves the Jets to 3-6 and keeps the weak pulse of their season alive.

The Texans fell to 6-3.

It was the Texans and not the Jets this week with the fourth quarter mistakes that cost them the game.

Kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn missed a 27-yard field goal after making a field goal that was wiped out by a penalty earlier in the drive.

Fairbairn had two missed field goals in the game.

The Jets are used to being the team with the kicking problems.

The Texans defense couldn’t get a stop late in the game.

After Garrett Wilson’s incredible one-handed catch early in the fourth quarter gave the Jets the lead, they put the game away with an eight-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 37-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Davante Adams making the lead 21-10.

Adams had briefly left the game to be checked for a concussion and returned to score his first touchdown as a Jet.

Rodgers was 22 of 32 for 211 yards and the three touchdowns.