Here are five interesting, perhaps even buzzworthy, storylines we heard directly from the mouths of Jets players during their first week of training camp.<\/p>\n
CB Brandon Stephens on the impact the Jets’ three free-agent defensive pillars can have …<\/strong> “They have played winning football, they’ve been in the league for a long time, so they know what it looks like,” Stephens said. “When you bring guys that have been in the league for a long time and know what good culture is, wherever they’ve been from, whether that was playing high-level football in college or in the NFL, it does something to us overall. Just having that leadership in the room, it just gives everybody else confidence, and especially the way that they work.<\/p>\n “At the same time, we’re trying to build confidence in ourselves each and every day. But obviously having veterans like that, man, it’s easy to go [all-out] for them.” (Fill in your favorite four-word football phrase for “all-out” between the brackets.)<\/p>\n Jeremy Ruckert on the crowd of first-rounders in the TEs room …<\/strong>
Brandon Stephens<\/a>, the sixth-year veteran NFL starter, appreciated a question about if\u00a0Demario Davis<\/a>, Minkah Fitzpatrick<\/a> and David Onyemata<\/a>\u00a0can lead the Jets’ culture to the next level.<\/p>\n
One might think that with tight ends selected in the first round the past two drafts, the TE taken in Round 3 four years ago might feel like he’s down for the count. But that’s not the way Jeremy Ruckert<\/a> rolls.<\/p>\n