Monday's fracas turned into Tuesday's scuffles. And coach Rex Ryan had had enough. About 90 minutes into practice -- and after issuing a warning that apparently wasn't heeded since it was followed by two small skirmishes -- Ryan called the entire team out of what they were doing and had everyone line up on the sideline. Then they ran gassers. For about 10 minutes and about 10 times. The entire team jogged from sideline to sideline until Ryan finally called everyone together.

Players could be heard panting as they went back and forth.

"That's the first time we've ever done that," said Ryan, explaining that he felt he had to do something drastic. "I saw a rookie (RB Terrance Ganaway) run through a guy, and that's not what you're looking for."

After that play -- and a day after a couple of dozen Jets players got into a brawl in the middle of practice -- Ryan warned the team. But then there was another incident when CB Antonio Cromartie put too forceful a knock on TE Dustin Keller. "Apparently, somebody never got the message. I thought Cromartie should've backed off and not hit Dustin. It happens (that) Cro was wrong in that situation."

Players now seem to have gotten Ryan's message.

"We aren’t practicing the way we should be right now," S Eric Smith said.

"At the end of the day we know that we're all brothers here and we got each other’s back," Davis said. "We're not enemies. The enemy’s out there. At the end of the day, we’re all on the same page."

LB Bryan Thomas, the team's longest tenured player, now in his 11th season, said, "Rex is right. We gotta be smart out there. The guys got to take care of each other. If somebody goes down with a knee injury, anything, it hurts the team. It’s not making anyone else better. He’s right, and he warned us. Guys got to cut this fighting out. It’s wasting practice time."

Ryan ultimately achieved his goal. "After (the gassers), they practiced exactly the way I wanted them to."

Ryan said he has no concerns about the ultimate closeness of his team and introduced some levity when he said, "I think they're getting a little too close with punching each other."

The Jets play the Cincinnati Bengals on Friday night, which everyone hopes will disperse some of the built-up tension of two weeks of training camp.

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