ST. LOUIS — Jets owner Woody Johnson called an emergency meeting last week to address what was wrong with his team.
The meeting last Tuesday included coach Rex Ryan, general manager Mike Tannenbaum, offensive coordinator Tony Sparano, defensive coordinator Mike Pettine and team president Neil Glat.
Ryan, after yesterday’s 27-13 win over the Rams, said the meeting was a positive.
“We all want the same thing and trying to find ways to get better,” Ryan said. “Woody, like me and everybody else, is passionate about the Jets. We all want to win. There’s no question about it. It was a positive thing. It was more about how can we improve. I think that was the tone of the meeting.”
Ryan was asked if it is nerve-racking when the owner calls a meeting like that.
“Woody’s around the team all the time,” Ryan said. “If he wasn’t and he was an owner that really wasn’t around the team all the time and then all of a sudden he’s going to call a meeting you’d be like, ‘Oh.’ But I think this is one where he’s around the team so much that it was just ‘OK.’ It was different but we all understand what we all want and that’s the same thing and that’s just to get better.”
* Tim Tebow played just three snaps on offense yesterday after having his role expanded a bit in recent weeks. That ties his season low for playing time.
“I think it was just a game-plan thing and whatever they’re comfortable with,” Tebow said.
How does he feel about playing that little?
“I’m just ready to do whatever they ask me and want me [to do],” he said.
Tebow had two runs for minus-5 yards and a handoff that went nowhere. Tebow also had a failed fake punt, where he threw a shovel pass to Lex Hilliard that went for a 1-yard loss.
“We had planned for Tim to have a big part of the game,” Ryan said. “They gave us some looks that we really weren’t expecting. That kind of maybe shut that down a little more than we had originally planned. They did a good job of adjusting. I think that was part of the reason you never saw a whole lot of Tim.”
* The Jets still have never lost more than three games in a row under Ryan. … NT Kenrick Ellis returned from a knee injury, but left in the first quarter after reinjuring the knee. … CB Aaron Berry injured his quadriceps in the second quarter, returned and then left the game again.
* Nick Folk hit two field goals from 51 yards, becoming the second Jets kicker to have two kicks of 50 yards or more in a game. Pat Leahy did it on Oct. 20, 1985 against the Patriots.