When you have one of the best defensive lineman on your team, and he hasn’t signed your franchise tag yet he is going to be the topic of conversation. Plenty of Wilkerson questions were directed to NY Jets head coach Todd Bowles. Here is what the coach thinks about the situation.<\/p>\n
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\nHe\u2019s coming along fine. Until you see him out there practicing, you really just let him go ahead and rehab. But he\u2019s come along good.<\/p>\n
\nNo, and me being a player, I think everybody\u2014every player\u00a0 in the league thinks they\u2019re under paid, so it\u2019s part of business. It\u2019s something that will work itself out.<\/p>\n
\nNo.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m not going to discuss Mo\u2019s situation here in public. I\u2019ll talk to them and Mo about it. I\u2019m not going to talk to everybody else about it. It\u2019s something that I\u2019ve always done.<\/p>\n
\nThey\u2019re friends. I mean, you\u2019re going to say that. As a player, and you\u2019re young enough to be friends. Players play, coaches coach, managers manage, lawyers do what they do.<\/p>\n
\nNo.<\/p>\n
\nI will wait and see, and I\u2019ll listen to the trainers and doctors, and get a better feel closer to training camp. Right now, I don\u2019t have a feel for it.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m hoping that\u2019s the case, but I\u2019ll wait and see. I\u2019m hoping he doesn\u2019t have any setbacks.<\/p>\n
\nYou can ask any player in the League and they\u2019re going to have the underpaid answer. It\u2019s not a distraction, it\u2019s just part of business. People get frustrated. People vent out. It\u2019s no different than your kids. If you get frustrated, you vent, you vent out and you move on.<\/p>\n
\nNo.<\/p>\n
\nLike I said, we\u2019re not going to discuss Mo out here in public. I\u2019m going to discuss it with his people and our people. I\u2019m not going to discuss it right here.<\/p>\n
\nNo, it doesn\u2019t bother me. I was twenty-something once too and I said a lot of things that I said or didn\u2019t want to say. When you\u2019re younger, you say things, but he says things that he means, so obviously he meant them.<\/p>\n