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Jets Notes: Amaro, Pryor, Boyd, Saunders

May 17th, 2014 at 7:07pm CST by Peter Sowards

Jace Amaro, the consensus All-American tight end from Texas Tech whom the Jets took with their second-round pick, caught 106 passes in 13 games his junior season. Extrapolate that to 16 games — a full regular season in the NFL — and that’s over 130 receptions.

Now, college football is not pro football, but that doesn’t stop Amaro from setting his goals high, saying he hopes to catch 100 balls on a consistent basis, reports Kimberley A. Martin of newsday.com.

One player Amaro hopes to pattern his game after is Tony Gonzalez. “He’s kind of old-school, but he did some great things, too, and I definitely feel like I’d like to [model] his game,” Amaro said. “That’s someone I’d love to ultimately be. He’s supposedly the greatest tight end ever to play the game and that’s somewhere I want to be, too.”

Amaro and the team agreed to terms on a four-year contract yesterday.

More links below on the goings-on from Gang Green…

  • Coach Rex Ryan is going to love his new safety, Calvin Pryor. Nicknamed “The Louisville Slugger,” Martin writes that Pryor doesn’t wear a mouthpiece so he can better talk trash to opponents, and that he hopes to walk the walk on that talk with big hits and loud play, similar to Seattle’s Kam Chancellor and Tampa Bay’s Dashon Goldson.
  • Pryor joined the New York Post’s Steve Serby for a Sunday Q&A, touching on Pryor’s twitter narratives and his desire to prove the doubters wrong.
  • Working out of the shotgun nearly every snap of his college career, Jets quarterback Tajh Boyd focused on proper footwork in rookie minicamp, Martin notes.
  • With a host of new receiving threats acquired — Eric Decker and David Nelson through free agency, and Jalen Saunders, Shaq Evans and Quincy Enunwa through the draft — Ryan called the group much better from top to bottom than at any point last season, said Martin.
  • On that note, Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com writes that the receivers have had a case of the dropsies in rookie camp.

Rex Ryan On The Draft, Offseason

April 26th, 2014 at 8:48pm CST by Rob DiRe

Jets head coach Rex Ryan was at a charity softball game for CBS Radio personalities Boomer and Carton of WFAN, and spoke to Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post. Hubbuch posted some of what Ryan had to say on Twitter in a series of tweets, giving some insight into some of the Jets possible draft strategy, as well as an update on the offseason so far.

  • Ryan said “half-jokingly” that the Jets were planning on taking a defensive lineman in the first round again in the upcoming draft. He then told general manager John Idzik that he thinks the fans would run the two of them out of town if they actually did that again.
  • About the prospect of moving around in the draft, Ryan said that having 12 picks gives them the flexibility to move up if an opportunity to present itself in the first round.
  • Speaking on the offseason workout program, the head coach noted that the team had a nearly perfect attendance, including the newest Jet, running back Chris Johnson. The only absences were expected.