Saturday, after the touchdown pass to Anderson, Wischusen joked, "Fooled me," when asked about the play in the radio booth.
Esiason, who was at Saturday's game, recalled that Pennington had said he used to watch the Colts' Peyton Manning to learn the art of the play fake. "And Manning said he used to watch me," Esiason said.
Martin was not the only player who benefited from the misdirection. The Jets scored on five of their first seven possessions; half a dozen receivers got into the action and five players ran the ball.
One receiver was Santana Moss. With 62 seconds left in the half and the Jets on the 4-yard line, he wound up in the right corner of the end zone. To say he was not touched, after Pennington had made the Colts believe he was looking elsewhere, is an understatement. Moss was 5 yards from anyone else.
That was one of three touchdown tosses that allowed Pennington to tie Vinny Testaverde and Namath for the most in a Jets playoff game.
And Martin? He spent most of the second half resting.
After all, he still has a sore ankle.
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