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Damon Harrison not sure about future with Jets
BY SETH WALDER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, December 24, 2015, 1:19 AM A A A
Damon Harrison has a great season for the Jets, but will be a free agent.
Damon Harrison hopes he will still be wearing green and white next year.
The run-stuffing nose tackle is having another very good season and is about to enter free agency. Surely he wants to cash in, but ideally he’d to do so in New York.
“I want to remain a Jet,” Harrison said. “Jet for life.”
He said he hasn’t thought about his free agency all that much yet, but he does consider himself the best nose tackle in football.
“Yes sir,” Harrison said.
Why?
“Body of work. I’ve only been a starter for three years. But in those three years I think I’ve done a pretty good job of fulfilling that job description,” he said. “You hear people say you’re just a two-down player, but there’s only three downs in football. I mean, I’m on the field for a better portion of the downs.”
And Harrison said he takes pride in his run-stuffing abilities.
“I do exactly what they ask me to do,” Harrison said. “And do it pretty well.”
On Wednesday, Patriots coach Bill Belichick was effusive in his praise for Harrison.
“I mean he might be the best of all of them against the run,” Belichick said. “He’s got great leverage, reads blocks well, hard to block, penetrates. He’s not just a stay-on-the-line-of-scrimmage guy. He makes plays in the backfield or knocks the blockers back into the backfield so the runner has to either give ground or cut back into unblocked guys and then they clean them up.”
Harrison actually grew up a Patriots fan, despite being from Louisiana. What if, as much as the Jets fans might dislike it, New England came calling during free agency? Would Harrison consider switching sides in the rivalry?
“It’s a business,” Harrison said. “I can’t say yes and I can’t say no.”
WORKING WAY BACK
ILB David Harris (back contusion) returned to practice on a limited basis Wednesday. “If he does a little more tomorrow I’ll be more optimistic,” Bowles said regarding Harris’ availability. ... QB Geno Smith missed practice with an illness. CB Dee Milliner (hamstring) also didn’t practice.
BY SETH WALDER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, December 24, 2015, 1:19 AM A A A
Damon Harrison has a great season for the Jets, but will be a free agent.
Damon Harrison hopes he will still be wearing green and white next year.
The run-stuffing nose tackle is having another very good season and is about to enter free agency. Surely he wants to cash in, but ideally he’d to do so in New York.
“I want to remain a Jet,” Harrison said. “Jet for life.”
He said he hasn’t thought about his free agency all that much yet, but he does consider himself the best nose tackle in football.
“Yes sir,” Harrison said.
Why?
“Body of work. I’ve only been a starter for three years. But in those three years I think I’ve done a pretty good job of fulfilling that job description,” he said. “You hear people say you’re just a two-down player, but there’s only three downs in football. I mean, I’m on the field for a better portion of the downs.”
And Harrison said he takes pride in his run-stuffing abilities.
“I do exactly what they ask me to do,” Harrison said. “And do it pretty well.”
On Wednesday, Patriots coach Bill Belichick was effusive in his praise for Harrison.
“I mean he might be the best of all of them against the run,” Belichick said. “He’s got great leverage, reads blocks well, hard to block, penetrates. He’s not just a stay-on-the-line-of-scrimmage guy. He makes plays in the backfield or knocks the blockers back into the backfield so the runner has to either give ground or cut back into unblocked guys and then they clean them up.”
Harrison actually grew up a Patriots fan, despite being from Louisiana. What if, as much as the Jets fans might dislike it, New England came calling during free agency? Would Harrison consider switching sides in the rivalry?
“It’s a business,” Harrison said. “I can’t say yes and I can’t say no.”
WORKING WAY BACK
ILB David Harris (back contusion) returned to practice on a limited basis Wednesday. “If he does a little more tomorrow I’ll be more optimistic,” Bowles said regarding Harris’ availability. ... QB Geno Smith missed practice with an illness. CB Dee Milliner (hamstring) also didn’t practice.
