On Wednesday New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
Opening statement\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n (Mark) Brunell, out, right calf. (Trevor) Canfield, out, left knee. (Jeff) Cumberland, out. Now this is for practice status but I\u2019m assuming they\u2019ll be out for the game if they can\u2019t practice right now, but hopefully that changes. Rob Turner obviously out with the right ankle. Now guys that are \u201cre-evaluate after individual, limited if doing well.\u2019 Plaxico (Burress), with a low back. He went up for a ball yesterday, kind of came down, thought it was a rib, moved to his back a little bit. (He) seems to be doing fine right now. Nick Bellore with a right calf that he got during the game. Now the other guys that I\u2019ll mention, we\u2019ll monitor these guys. Derrick Mason, left knee. Courtney Smith, right ankle. Limited guys: Marcus Dixon, left knee. Calvin Pace, left groin. Sione Pouha, left knee. Bart Scott, left leg.<\/p>\n On all of the injuries being to left body parts\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, defense it\u2019s all left. So we\u2019re going to put those guys on the right side this week, balance them out a little bit. (joking)<\/p>\n On the team having a lot of injuries so far\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No, not for us. Really we\u2019ve had the one serious injury with Turner. Brunell has a calf, that\u2019s not unusual. And these other ones are kind of nicks, these guys are practicing. So I\u2019m anticipating that everybody will play in this third game with the exception of obviously (Rob) Turner. Canfield, I would doubt very much that he plays, and Brunell. And the only one that would be iffy would be Cumberland.<\/p>\n On if he is concerned about Burress being on the injury list again\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No, again, these are things, if we\u2019re playing a real game he\u2019s going to play. I think he\u2019s going to play anyway, so we\u2019ll see. We will re-evaluate it after individual. And we\u2019ll limit him if he\u2019s doing well. See I learned, because anytime I put my own diagnosis on there, trouble happens. I ought to just post it right here (on the podium). There you go everybody. (joking)<\/p>\n On how tough it would be for Burress if he wasn\u2019t able to play on Saturday\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n If he can\u2019t play, we\u2019ll definitely let somebody else tell him that. I think this is good that you\u2019re playing a team like the Giants and all that kind of stuff. There will probably be a little more juice than there is in a lot of preseason games. But the fact that we play them in the regular season, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s near where it would normally be.<\/p>\n On the emotions Burress will feel on Saturday\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be exciting for him to come back out there. It\u2019ll be interesting to see the fan\u2019s reaction to him, things like that. That\u2019ll be interesting.<\/p>\n On how much the starters will play on Saturday\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it\u2019ll be maybe one series into the second half, just so they come out and get used to it. We won\u2019t extend it more than that.<\/p>\n On whether that is less than normal for the third preseason game…<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think so, I think that\u2019s pretty much our standard operating procedure.<\/p>\n On the rash of injuries for the Giants\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m really just focused on this team. Anytime you lose a player, that\u2019s tough. And I know they\u2019ve lost some players at the same position. That\u2019s where it really gets tough on you. I know they have the young man from Nebraska out and then they just lost this other good (cornerback) (Terrell Thomas). That\u2019s a tough thing to overcome for sure.<\/p>\n On playing against the cross-town Giants and it being a rivalry game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it\u2019ll be good. I think it is good. I think there will be plenty of energy in this game. I would definitely agree with you on last year when we played them in the preseason. It seemed like it was a big deal that there was a lot of hitting going on and guys were getting after it. It was good. It was a preseason game, but it was still amped up about as good as you can get for a preseason game. It kind of reminded me of when we went to Baltimore that time. That was a knockdown-drag-out. That looked like a regular season-type game. And it was similar last year with the Giants. But again I think both sides want to see that. Will it be the case, the fact that we\u2019re playing in the regular season? Probably you won\u2019t see as much game-planning. For us, we don\u2019t game-plan anyway for the preseason, but I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ll see as much game-planning as maybe you would.<\/p>\n On if the Patriots are a bigger rival for the Jets than the Giants\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, they\u2019re in our division. Absolutely. But, if you\u2019re going to pick a team out just by the location, your biggest NFC rival would be the Giants. That goes without saying. I\u2019m not going to discount that at all, because I\u2019m sure it is. Them and Dallas of course. (joking)<\/p>\n On if the team ever game-plans during the preseason\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n We always hold back in the preseason but we still blitz and we still get after it. But we don\u2019t game-plan. A lot of times teams will game-plan. I heard a young man from Washington say that they\u2019re game-planning for the Ravens and all that. We never game-plan defensively, anyway, in any preseason game.<\/p>\n On going to Hofstra for practice on Thursday\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it\u2019s going to be great. We\u2019re excited about it, it\u2019s something that we want to do, for the next 20 years or something go back in there. It\u2019s just one day. It\u2019s a little inconvenient, but so what. It\u2019s a big group of our fans, we\u2019re proud of that and it just gives an opportunity for us to go in there and maybe some of the fans can\u2019t get to games but they can see us at a practice. We enjoy it, it\u2019s what we do. It\u2019s one of the things we\u2019ll do now.<\/p>\n On how much different of an atmosphere it is to have practice at Hofstra\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s kind of neat. We have it a little bit purposely, it\u2019s later in the week so you\u2019re dialed down a little. You\u2019re not really killing your guys, you\u2019re just going out there. But it is something. And we\u2019re trying to keep that one fan that came on the field last year. (joking) I don\u2019t know if he\u2019ll be out there, but it is neat. I mean 10,000 people at a practice, that\u2019s fantastic.<\/p>\n On if there will be any fast food on the bus this year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n We will be traveling with our cheeseburgers on the bus this year. (joking) If I have to go down here and buy them myself, there will not be that issue. At least there better not be.<\/p>\n On what he\u2019d like to see from his team against the Giants\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019d like to get our running game going a little bit. I\u2019d like to see them. That\u2019s going to be a good test against their front seven. Up front, that\u2019s a big, strong, physical, athletic line. That\u2019ll be a big test. I think that\u2019ll be good. Offensively, they run the football and they\u2019re taking shots (long passes). We know their game-plan. I watched it last year. They threw literally 15 fades on us or back-shoulder fades or something. It\u2019ll be good, this will be real football.<\/p>\n On waiving Chris Stewart and Brandon Long\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, I think sometimes you have to, if you think it\u2019s going a certain way. I\u2019m not a coach that likes to just keep a guy, knowing that the end result (is) that you\u2019re going to cut him. So when I looked at it, the way (Matt) Kroul is coming on, we like this (Zane) Taylor kid from Utah. It\u2019s just the right thing to do. You give this guy an opportunity to maybe catch on somewhere else. That\u2019s really what it is. Just like when we let Brian Toal go. Brian Toal is a good football player, but we\u2019re going to keep one fullback, and it\u2019s John Conner. And there\u2019s probably one other guy that is a phone call away that if something would happen to John Conner. So I just feel that you have to give a guy a chance. If you know in your heart of hearts that you\u2019re going to go a different direction, you need to be honest and give that young man an opportunity. And that\u2019s what we did in both those cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets. Opening statement\u2026 (Mark) Brunell, out, right calf. (Trevor) Canfield, out, left knee. (Jeff) Cumberland, out. 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