Rex Ryan on making Jets run laps: 'I'd seen enough'

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BY NICK ST. DENIS

After the New York Jets' highly-publicized "brawl" Monday, coach Rex Ryan reminded his team to take care of one another.

So when the team had two small scuffles Tuesday despite his warning, Ryan had enough.

Ryan stopped practice and made the team run disciplinary laps, marking the first time he had ever done so with any team.

"When I saw the situation where that was exactly what I was talking about, how that isn’t taking care of one another, I'd seen enough and I just ran them," Ryan told the media after practice.

Rookie linebacker Demario Davis and rookie running back Terrance Ganaway went at it first.

"In that case, I saw a rookie run through a guy. It's a thud period, you thud off a guy," Ryan said. "He tried to run through a guy and that is not what you're looking for. That's not being physical. That to me is being selfish.

"I told the guys about it, and sure enough, apparently somebody never got the message," Ryan said of a  confrontation between veterans tight end Dustin Keller and cornerback Antonio Cromartie, "and I just felt that it was best to control the situation, which we did."

Jets sign 'A-back' rookie Ganaway to 4-year deal

BY NICK ST. DENIS

The Jets announced Monday they signed sixth-round draft choice running back Terrance Ganaway. Multiple media outlets are reporting Ganaway, a former Baylor standout, inked a four-year deal with Gang Green.

Ganaway, who stands at 6 feet, 240 pounds, is the third Jets draft pick to be signed. New York already agreed to terms with second-round receiver Stephen Hill and sixth-round safety Josh Bush.

Ganaway will enter camp as New York's fourth tailback behind Shonn Greene, Joe McKnight and Bilal Powell, though he'll likely see plenty of opportunities during preseason to prove his worth on the depth chart.

"I think Rex [Ryan] or Mike [Tannenbaum] used the term 'A-back' in one of their press conferences, and that's really what we wanted to find," Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano said, according to NewYorkJets.com. "We wanted to find a guy that I look at him like an A-back, being a back of Shonn [Greene]'s size, where a B-back is more a Reggie Bush, a [Darren] Sproles, those types of players, a little bit more of a scatty type of player.