CORTLAND, N.Y. — Jets coach Rex Ryan has come up with a game plan to get holdout cornerback Darrelle Revis back on the field. And everyone in the organization is invited.
“We’ll call off practice,” Ryan said Wednesday. “We’ll have our whole team there and meet. That way there’s no ‘he said, she said’ or whatever. Just get the thing done, and let’s work it out that way.”
Don’t laugh. Despite HBO and NFL Films taping the Jets throughout training camp for their “Hard Knocks” series, Ryan wasn’t just playing it up for the cameras.
“Absolutely serious,” he said — with no smile.
“He wants him here,” quarterback Mark Sanchez said. “I mean, he’s serious. It’s difficult as players because we don’t know exactly down to the number what is really going on. So it’s hard to say, ‘Well, he should be here,’ or, ‘He shouldn’t be here.’ All I can say is I hope it gets resolved soon without any more holdups.”
Asked if he’d actually make an appeal to Revis’ agents to have an organizationwide meeting, Ryan said: “I’m making it right now. I know it’ll get to them.”
The all-pro cornerback has missed 11 days, including Wednesday, since the Jets reported for training camp. He’s scheduled to make $1 million in the fourth year of his six-year rookie deal, but wants to become the league’s highest-paid cornerback.
Revis is being fined $16,523 for each day he misses, meaning he is already out $181,753.
Colts center Saturday out two to six weeks
ANDERSON, Ind. — Colts Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturday could miss two to six weeks after having arthroscopic knee surgery to remove what the team described as a “loose body.”
“I couldn’t give you a timetable. I haven’t heard any specifics from a doctor,” coach Jim Caldwell said. “But he’s always been a quick healer.”
Footnotes.
Seahawks linebacker Aaron Curry returned to practice after undergoing testing on recognizing colors and shapes, on short-term memory, completing sentences and word association because of a concussion suffered on the first day of practice.
• A judge in Mobile, Ala., sent the drug possession case against former Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell to a grand jury despite testimony that the codeine drink found at Russell’s home July 5 belonged to a longtime friend.
• The Cardinals signed defensive end John Fletcher, an all-Mountain West Conference selection as a senior at Wyoming, and released injured defensive end Keilen Dykes (triceps).
• Titans defensive end William Hayes is expected to be out two weeks because of a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee.
• Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said he’s optimistic running back Brian Leonard (foot) will play at some point during the season but added it will be a couple of weeks before the team has a better prognosis.
• Saints running back Lynell Hamilton has torn the ACL in his right knee and is out for the entire season.
• The Browns are awaiting further test results on starting linebacker D’Qwell Jackson, who suffered his second chest muscle injury in 10 months Tuesday.
• Former Buccaneers linebacker Derrick Brooks is officially retiring from the NFL, making the announcement in a two-minute video posted on the website . The Associated Press
