It's Patriots-Jets week, which means plenty of talking. At least from Rex Ryan's crew anyway -- Ryan tried to move the rivalry from the field and into the minds of the respective coaches, citing the "personal" nature of the matchup between he and Bill Belichick. (Of course, he's already said that he came to the Jets to "kick [Belichick's] ass, so there's that too.)
Unsurprisingly, Belichick didn't take the bait, and he's apparently ordered a bit of a media gag on his players re: sparring verbally with the Jets.
"Definitely," Jerod Mayo said, laughing, when asked if Belichick had warned the Pats players about engaging the Jets. "That's why I'm hoping no one asks me those kinds of questions."
Alge Crumpler pointed to the similarity between the teams and their respective coaches.
"Here we go," Crumpler said about hearing Ryan's initial comments. "I thought we’d get a few days before the banter starts. But it is what it is. Like I said last time, they take after their coach, we take after our coach."
So, yeah, this is how things should be until the Patriots and Jets kickoff on CBS (and random reminder: if you're tweeting about the game, throw the #onCBS hashtag; you might land yourself a special little retweet) at 4:30 PM EST Sunday.
The Jets will talk -- a lot -- and the Patriots won't talk -- a lot. Then they'll play football. The only difference, as usual, is that if the Jets lose, everyone will remind them how much of a bluster they put up beforehand.
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