Bryan Thomas is aback with the New York Jets - and he wants to accomplishment his career with his aboriginal team.
The alfresco linebacker was re-signed Monday, forth with advanced receiver Patrick Turner, two canicule afterwards the Jets decidedly cut their longest-tenured player.
Thomas was told Saturday by accepted administrator Mike Tannenbaum and drillmaster Rex Ryan that the Jets had to accomplish a agenda move 'for the bigger of the team' but promised to accompany him aback afore adorning cornerback Donnie Fletcher wear
Tisa Snapbacks Hats from the convenance band in time for New York's bold at Miami on Sunday. It was a accommodation that didn't sit able-bodied at aboriginal with Thomas, who was the team's first-round aces in 2002 out of UAB.
'I was (ticked off),' Thomas said Monday in the Jets' locker room. 'There's no added chat about it. Just (ticked off). Mad. That's all I could say about it.'
The Jets aswell cut Fletcher, arresting lineman Marcus Dixon and abhorrent accouterment Dennis Landolt. They accept one accessible agenda atom remaining, but will accept addition if they acceptable abode cornerback Darrelle Revis on afflicted assets because of a broken antecedent cruciate bond in his larboard knee.
Thomas has been a key allotment of the Jets' defense, mostly as a solid run-stuffing linebacker. It took him a few canicule to get over getting cut for the aboriginal time in his career.
'I can't authority any animosity,' Thomas said. 'This is area I consistently capital to be and this is area I wish to stay. I wish to retire as a Jet and that's my focus.'
He absent a lot of of endure division with a broken larboard Achilles tendon, but was re-signed to a one-year arrangement in March. Thomas wear
Tisa Snapbacks has been ambidextrous with a hamstring abrasion the endure two weeks, and was listed as doubtful. He knew he wouldn't be traveling with the aggregation to Miami - but still was agitated by the move.
'You've got to attending at it as a business, you know?' Thomas said. 'I'm an adult. I've got to go with it, move on and now get accessible for San Francisco.'
Thomas said his hamstring is accomplished and 'everything abroad is alive and anointed good,' so he should be accessible adjoin the 49ers this Sunday.
Turner, a above academy assistant of quarterback Mark Sanchez at Southern California, was waived on Sept. 11. He has 10 career catches and will add abyss to the position with amateur Stephen Hill's cachet ambiguous because of a hamstring abrasion abiding in the 23-20 overtime win over the Dolphins on Sunday.
Dixon, who was in his third division with the Jets, was waived on Sept. 1 but re-signed a few canicule later. His locker remained complete during media availability Monday, so addition acknowledgment is a possibility.