Michael Vick has gotten just five snaps so far this season, and the backup Jets quarterback/wildcat specialist admits that may be too much.
“I think five might be too many,’’ said Vick, only half-joking. Those five plays produced no yards, a sack and a red-zone fumble by Geno Smith.
“I know we haven’t had a whole lot of success with him,’’ coach Rex Ryan admitted. “It does keep a defense off balance a bit and, hopefully, we’ll get this thing rolling a little bit.’’
Asked if he might benefit personally from getting an entire series instead of a lone play here or there, Vick suggested it doesn’t help Smith and the offense might not benefit either.
“That disrupts timing of the quarterback,’’ Vick said. “This isn’t college. You don’t rotate quarterbacks, you don’t substitute one guy for another for one series. That’s kind of petty. At the same time you want your quarterback to stay in a consistent flow. You don’t want to interrupt anything.’’
CB Dee Milliner (high left ankle sprain) was limited Thursday in practice and WR Eric Decker (hamstring) didn’t practice.
“If [Milliner] is as good as he was last week, then, yeah, absolutely,’’ said Ryan, who was not as optimistic about Decker. “He’s a veteran player, but obviously you’d like to have him test it a bit. I’m not going to just say he has to be out on Saturday [practicing], but that’s what you’d like.’’
DL Muhammad Wilkerson said he was fined for the unsportsmanlike conduct in Sunday’s game that led to his ejection. DL Sheldon Richardson told ESPN he was also fined. The amounts were unknown.
G Willie Colon (calf), RB Chris Johnson (ankle) and C Nick Mangold (shoulder) were limited, with Ryan saying Johnson and Mangold should be fine. LBs Nick Bellore (hip) and A.J. Edds (hamstring) were out, and if neither can play Ryan said “we’ll give [safety Dawan] Landry some linebacker pads or something.’’
Bears coach Marc Trestman said tempestuous ex-Jet WR Santonio Holmes has been a good teammate.
“I felt, talking to the people that surrounded him and he was close to, that people do transform themselves. They do grow and learn from things that they’ve done in the past,’’ Trestman said. “He’s come in, worked hard, assimilated himself in the locker room, appears to be getting along well with his teammates and is working to try and contribute.’’
Chicago QB Jay Cutler said it’s clear how much playing the Jets will mean to Holmes.
“He doesn’t need to say much,’’ Cutler said. “We know what happened with him there and how important this game is to him.’’
Bears WR Brandon Marshall (ankle) didn’t practice and fellow wideout Alshon Jeffrey (hamstring) was limited.
