By BRIAN COSTELLO

The Jets’ locker room was open to the media today as the team goes through its offseason workout program. Guess what the hot topic was?

Lots of talk about Jay Cutler with the speculation heating up about the Jets trying to acquire the disgruntled Denver quarterback, who today wound up trade to the Bears.

Both Kellen Clemens and Brett Ratliff said they were trying to ignore the reports and concentrate on preparing themselves for the season.

“It’s going to have a direct effect on me possibly however it all shakes out,” Clemens said. “I try not to let it affect me right now and the preparation I’m doing. The whole thing might blow over and he goes somewhere else and all three of us are still here and we go forward. You don’t want to lose these days of preparations worrying about hypotheticals.”

Ratliff turns on ESPN for his Dick Vitale fix but sounds like he hits the mute button when he sees the Cutler news pop up.

“I watch ESPN but it’s not for that,” Ratliff said. “It’s to catch highlights of March Madness or whatever it is. I love sports still but anything that has to do with me … sometimes it’s going to be good, sometimes it’s going to be bad. If you’re going to read the good stuff, you’ve got to read the bad stuff so I try to avoid it altogether.”

The other guys on the team were clearly paying attention to the unfolding drama. They got practice last year with the Brett Favre saga last summer.

An interesting subplot in all of this was the defensive players’ feelings about Cutler. Kerry Rhodes was vocal last week about his dislike of Cutler’s trash talking in their game last season.

It sounds like he’s not alone. Cornerback Darrelle Revis said he got to know Cutler a bit at the Pro Bowl and likes the quarterback but Cutler still might have some explaining to do if he winds up in the Jets locker room.

“I think a lot of guys don’t like that,” Revis said of Cutler’s antics. “If he were to come here I think he’d be questioned a lot about that.”

Then he joked, “We might do some hazing.”

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Some Jets players have switched numbers.

David Clowney has taken Laveranues Coles’ No. 87 with Coles now a Bengal. Erik Ainge is wearing No. 10, vacated by Chad Pennington last summer. Bart Scott took Jason Trusnik’s No. 57, so Trusnik is now wearing 96, formerly David Bowens’. Dwight Lowery has switched to 21, which was last worn by Justin Miller.