If you’re fired up to see what Mark Sanchez delivers as an encore to his performance against the Giants, tune into the Jets-Eagles game early and don’t take any bathroom breaks.
Rex Ryan yesterday said he plans to play the starters for one series against the Eagles Thursday night.
“It’s going to be vanilla football, with not a lot of blitzing,” Ryan said.
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David Clowney, who didn’t have pass thrown to him in the Giants game despite playing with the starters, yesterday didn’t sound discouraged, saying “the feedback was good” from the coaching staff on his performance.
“I made a bunch of blocks in the running game,” he said. “The game went real well for me.”
Clowney has been having fun recently throwing out the statement to Ryan, “Who can cover the Clown?”
Ryan said, “I talked to him and said, ‘What happened to the Clown?’ He said, ‘Coach, I was blocking out there,’ and he was. He did a good job.”
Ryan, however, was noncommittal about whether Clowney would get another start, though he will play a lot against the Eagles.
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Ryan couldn’t resist another dig at the Patriots when asked about the minor hamstring injury DE Mike DeVito suffered against the Giants.
Imitating Bill Belichick‘s famous vague description of injuries, including the absence of information recently given to Tom Brady‘s shoulder injury, Ryan said, “DeVito’s got a leg injury . . . or a shoulder injury that came down to his hamstring.”
Rookie RB Shonn Greene, who suffered a minor rib injury in the Baltimore game, was back on the practice field yesterday. Greene will likely not play Thursday.
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Because he’d seen it erroneously reported in one paper, Ryan made it a point to note that, on the 71-yard TD pass from Giants’ backup QB David Carr to rookie WR Hakeem Nicks, it was not S Eric Smith‘s fault. Smith was blamed because he was called for an illegal contact penalty on the play, which was declined.
“That was not Eric’s guy,” Ryan said.
