Shaun Ellis, alone among Jets players yesterday, reiterated Rex Ryan’s contention of a day earlier that Tom Brady rubbed the Jets’ noses in it last month during the Patriots’ 45-3 Foxborough rout.
“Yeah, he was taunting us,” Ellis told The Post after practice. “He was.”
The charge came up on Monday, as Ryan surprisingly claimed Brady “took a shot at me by his antics on the field.” Specifically, Ryan declared, “He always points [to everybody] after he scores.” Ryan called it “Brady being Brady.”
Brady, who’s been in the NFL since 2000, hasn’t been accused of being classless or unprofessional on the field in the past. And in the Jets’ locker room yesterday, a bunch of players insisted they had never seen Brady do anything like what Ryan said.
Ellis was the exception.
According to the veteran defensive lineman, “They were winning. He was feeling good, I guess, about himself. They controlled us a lot in that game.
“It wasn’t too much,” Ellis added. “It’s just his body language and things like that. When they scored, he’d look over to our sideline and do a little body language and all that. He was fired up for that game. We’re going to get the same thing this week. It’s for us as a defense to go out there and shut him down.”
Asked if it was something he’d done in the past against the Jets, Ellis said, “He doesn’t like the Jets. Any time he gets a chance to rub it in our face, he’s going to do it. For us, it’s just a matter of we want to see him on the ground as much as possible.”
Other Jets insisted they haven’t seen evidence of Brady’s “antics,” to use Ryan’s word.
“I’ve never seen him point at somebody,” Darrelle Revis said. “Like after they score a touchdown, I’m not looking at Tom Brady. I don’t know. I just go off to the sideline and make the corrections as best as we can. I’ve never heard him taunt or trash talk when I’ve been around him, no.”
Said Sione Pouha, “I didn’t see anything. I’m sure if it was something, it was just emotions of the game. But I didn’t see anything in particular.”
Nor did Eric Smith or Tony Richardson, who insisted they’ve never heard Brady taunt or showboat. And David Harris said, “He’s not a real big trash-talker. He just goes out there and plays his game.”
Ryan said Monday that “my job is to keep [Brady] out of the end zone” — and yesterday, Dwight Lowery said that’s basically what Sunday’s game boils down to.
“I don’t recall any of that happening, but at the same time, if you don’t want it to happen, if you don’t want to see it, then we’ve got to stop him from getting in the end zone so we can do it back,” said Lowery.