The Jets have gone two games without forcing a single turnover and they have yet to record a quarterback sack. Neither is a statistic a team wants its name attached to.
“We’re very aware of it,” safety Kerry Rhodes said yesterday. “One of our goals coming into the year was to be a good take-away team, and we’re not really doing it right now. The chances have been there; we just haven’t capitalized on them.
“It is weird – especially for a team like us,” Rhodes said. “We expect to make those plays. We have the players to make those plays. It’s in the back of our minds.”
Added Jonathan Vilma: “Turnovers decide games.”
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Kellen Clemens said his fourth-quarter comeback performance Sunday “was a nice boost of confidence against a very good defense in a pretty hostile environment.”
He added: “In a game that wasn’t going real smoothly, we battled back and made a pretty dang good game of it. That helped my confidence.”
Clemens said he tried to keep his preparation the same.
“The one thing was I got a lot more reps with the No. 1 offense,” he said. “The major difference in my preparation was trying to really earn their trust throughout the course of the week so when we got out there on Sunday they didn’t have as many concerns about having a young quarterback out there.”
Asked if he checks with Chad Pennington on the status of his sprained ankle, Clemens said, “When I ask Chad how he’s doing there’s a kind of a don’t-ask, don’t-tell policy. What I don’t know is fine, because I don’t have to worry about it when I come in here and visit with you guys [reporters].
“When I ask how Chad’s doing, there’s limited parts of his body that I’m not asking about.”
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CB Justin Miller, who injured his right knee Sunday on a kickoff return, was seen moving around on crutches in the facility yesterday.