Jets-Dolphins Are Catty On, Off The Field

The trash-talking between the Jets and Dolphins goes back to Jets coach Rex Ryan expressing confidence in his team's OTAs, which prompted Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder(notes) to call Ryan "the OTA Super Bowl winner." Ryan playfully responded that he'd "walked over tougher guys going to a fight" than Crowder, and that if he were younger, he'd probably handle Crowder himself. Crowder called Ryan a "big old joker", and Ryan speculated that he might get "tatted up" for the hypothetical confrontation. When the two teams met in Week 5, the Fins ran wild with the Wildcat, gaining 107 yards on 17 plays with their tricked-up single wings. Miami won, 31-27, but the Jets were not impressed with the formations that made them look unaware and unprepared. Ryan called the Wildcat a college offense, and linebacker Calvin Pace said that "I can't respect that stuff, all that Wildcat, because we're in the NFL, man," Predictably, Crowder was ready to fire back. "I love nonsense. They want to say...