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Thursday, June 14, 2012

NY Jets must prove Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow chemistry works and Darrelle Revis ... - New York Daily News

 Tim Tebow (l.) and Mark Sanchez look happy at minicamp, but the Jets have some issues to iron out.

Robert Sabo/New York Daily News

Tim Tebow (l.) and Mark Sanchez look happy at minicamp, but the Jets have some issues to iron out.

The moving vans will be pulling up to the loading dock at the Jets’ facility in Florham Park in another month to transport all their gear to Cortland for training camp. It would be appropriate if there was a sign at the exit on I-81 welcoming the circus back to town.

The Jets wrapped up their offseason training on Thursday and won’t reconvene until July 26 in upstate New York, but it will take more than these few weeks of OTAs and three days of minicamp to prove the scars have healed from the dysfunction that doomed them at the end of last season when they lost their last three games.

“We will have a close football team,” Rex Ryan said Thursday. “We are not going to beat ourselves with infighting. That’s a thing of the past.”

Even though the Jets are preaching harmony, remember it’s only June, and they will face major issues in Cortland. Will Darrelle Revis even show up?

Can Santonio Holmes stop being a knucklehead?

And will this explosive quarterback controversy the Jets created between Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow overwhelm Sanchez or make him better?

All the Jets’ problems are self-inflicted.

They were so desperate to sign Revis two years ago that they gave him the impression that the four-year, $46 million deal he signed two weeks before the season was really a front-loaded two-year deal ($32.5 million) that would be upgraded in Year 3. They traded for Tebow knowing he is the most popular player in the league and that Sanchez might be the most immature quarterback in the league.

And who exactly forced them to invest in Holmes with a five-year, $45 million contract days after the lockout ended last year? The only reason Rex Ryan named him a captain â€" Holmes a captain, really? â€" is because his teammates never would have voted him one.

Holmes rewarded Ryan’s loyalty by arguing with his teammates on the field in the last game in Miami and then getting benched. Holmes apparently has not changed. He stormed off the field last week because he felt the Jets were working him too hard.

If the Jets are in for another Summer of Revis, then it’s going to be another long summer up in Cortland, just like it was two years ago. In 2010, it was clear he was going to hold out and not play for $1 million. Now it’s harder to figure. If the Jets don’t make a move to renegotiate â€" and so far, they haven’t given any indication they will even talk about it â€" then Revis cares little about public reaction and is not worried about his reputation. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to hold out.

Does he know if he will show up if the Jets don’t budge?

“No, I don’t,” Revis said. “It’s a question I don’t know. When the time comes, everybody will know and we’ll see.”

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