A football Spiel’ worth listening to

FOX’s Chris Spielman smartly and immediately recognized a common, significant deficiency among new-age ballplayers on Sunday: Failure to recognize circumstances. On third-and-19, the Jets’ Matt Forte ran for 20 yards, fully enabled by Miami DT Jordan Phillips’ missed “tackle” designed to strip Forte of the ball rather than tackle him. Instead of punting, the Jets scored on that possession to lead, 14-7.

Football experts continue to lean heavily on stats that can’t support their weight. Saturday, Purdue crushed Rutgers in the “biggies” — 25-8 in first downs, 474-217 in yardage, 32:06-27:54 in time of possession. RU won, 14-12.

I did dirt here to WFAN’s Steve Somers, Friday, writing that he mocked CC Sabathia’s alcoholism by twinning CC with AA. What Somers quipped was that in Game 3 of the ALCS CC had his AA game. I was dead wrong; I apologize.

The family of John Andariese, who passed in March, will receive Fordham’s Johnny Bach Award at the school’s Tip-Off Din- ner, Oct. 30, at the Water Club. Marv Albert and Adam Silver are expected to speak. Bach coached “Johnny Hoops” at Fordham, 1956-60.

With TV’s relentless, brainless aid, our sports remain doomed: Although there were five TDs and one huge turnover in the first half of Miami-Jets, all of FOX’s chosen “high- lights” at the half ’s close and just before the third quarter’s start — highlights that might’ve been used to explain the game to that point — were of post-play acts of self-affection.

No comprende: Game 7 graphic on FOX provided info on how to watch FOX’s Spanish-language version. The graphic was in English.