The Jets returned to basics this week in practice after losing to the Cardinals in Week 10. But the final results remained the same. The Colts (5-6) defeated the Jets (3-8) 28-27 on a beautiful 60-degree day at MetLife Stadium. The Jets’ loss was their seventh in eight games. Gang Green is 1-5 since owner Woody Johnson fired Robert Saleh on Oct. 8. Aaron Rodgers completed 22-of-29 passes for 184 yards and two touchdowns, but the Jets offense struggled after registering just nine yards in the first quarter. Breece Hall finished the game with 121 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns. The Jets’ offense struggled to begin the game. They went five consecutive drives without recording a first down. “Disappointing,” a frustrated Rodgers said about the Jets record through 11 games. “Disappointing.” At the two-minute warning, Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson completed a 39-yard pass to Alec Pierce, which put them in scoring range to win the game in regulation. Then, three plays later, Richardson kept the ball on the run and scored on a quarterback run to put Indianapolis up 28-27 for good with 51 seconds left after the Colts’ unsuccessful two-point conversion attempt. “We gotta execute better,” Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said. “Obviously, I gotta get them into a better call in those situations. “I was confident the defense was going to get the stop. That’s why I opted to kick the field goal and not go for it there. In hindsight, I probably should have gone for it.” With less than a minute remaining, the Jets had one final opportunity to win the game in regulation. However, Rodgers was sacked twice by Kwity Paye on the final drive, sealing the Jets’ fate. After he was benched for Joe Flacco the previous two weeks, Colts coach Shane Steichen named Richardson the starting quarterback for the rest of the season ahead of the Jets game. Gang Green had issues containing Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray because of his mobility, and they struggled to contain Richardson during critical downs on Sunday. Entering the game against the Colts, Ulbrich showed the Jets players a tackling demonstrated in team meetings after they missed 20 against the Cardinals. Although the Jets’ defense was a bit better against the Colts, they did miss a few key tackles. In his return under center, Richardson completed 20-of-30 passes for 272 yards and registered three total touchdowns. The Jets’ defense has been among the best in the league for the last few seasons. However, since Saleh’s firing, the Jets defense has taken a clear step back the last six weeks. One of the Jets missed tackles came in the first quarter after Richardson completed a pass to Adonai Mitchell, and Sauce Gardner missed the tackle after he took a bad angle. That led to the Colts’ first touchdown after Mitchell got the ball down to the one-yard line, and Richardson eventually scored on a two-yard touchdown. The Jets limited the Colts to just 91 rushing yards and 2.6 yards per attempt, but it wasn’t enough to pull out the victory after allowing the game-winning touchdown late in the game. “It comes down to executing and finishing,” Jets cornerback D.J. Reed said. “I don’t think anything is missing, I think it is just execution. “When you start losing, guys want to overcompensate. Guys want to do a little bit more and that’s a normal thing to do, especially if you want to win. But at the end of the day, you just gotta do your job. “Just do your role and everything else is going to take care of itself. The first half, I thought we had did that. That last drive was very demoralizing and it just wasn’t our standard and I put that game on the defense.” The Jets received the ball to begin Sunday’s game but quickly went three-and-out. Gang Green still has not scored a touchdown on its opening drive through 11 weeks. Indianapolis did, however, get points early and went up 3-0 after Matt Gay‘s 41-yard field goal. The Colts lead went up to 10-0 in the second quarter after Richardson rushed for the ball for two yards and over Jets safety Jalen Mills in the end zone. Gay’s second field goal, this time for 47 yards, extended Indianapolis’ lead to 13-0. The Jets finally got on board before halftime when Rodgers found Hall for a 29-yard touchdown pass that cut their deficit to 13-7. After the halftime break, the Jets defense created a fumble after Jamien Sherwood‘s sack-and-strip on Richardson that Javon Kinlaw recovered the ball on the Colts 25-yard-line. That helped set up a Hall 18-yard touchdown run that put the Jets ahead 14-13. Gay converted his third field goal of the day from 56 yards, and Indianapolis retook the lead 16-14 halfway through the third quarter. Andres Carlson, who became Gang Green’s kicker after Spencer Shrader was signed off the Jets’ practice squad by Kansas City, made a 58-yard field goal late in the third quarter to make the score 17-16. To begin the fourth quarter, the Jets had a scoring opportunity after being down at the Colts’ 27-yard line. Rodgers took advantage of the field position and found tight end Kenny Yeboah for an 11-yard touchdown reception that extended the Jets lead to 24-16. The play marked Yeboah’s first NFL touchdown in his fourth season in the league. Just when it looked like the Jets were going to pull away, the Colts came back down and scored a touchdown after Josh Downs found the end zone on a 10-yard pass from Richardson. But Indianapolis missed the two-point conversion and the score remained 24-22. The Jets extended their lead to 27-22 with 2:44 remaining after Carlson converted a 35-yard field goal. Before they kicked the field goal, the Jets lined up like they were going to go for it on fourth down, but they just tried to draw the Colts’ defense offsides and spent a timeout when that did not happen. That decision ultimately came back to haunt the Jets. After the Colts took a one-point lead with 46 seconds left on Richardson’s four-yard run, the Jets got the ball back but had no timeouts remaining. Paye sacked Rodgers with 13 seconds left to end the game. “Not a very good play,” Rodgers said about the last sequence of the game. “I don’t know if I got hit or if it didn’t come out right. I was trying to throw an incompletion, pretty bad play.” After 11 straight games, the Jets will be on a bye in Week 12. They will play their next game against the Seahawks on Dec. 1.