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FLORHAM PARK Men Quinnen Williams Jersey , N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets hit the field together for the first time this offseason — without their star running back.Le’Veon Bell was not among the players present Tuesday for the start of the team’s voluntary three-day minicamp. Linebacker Darron Lee, whose role with the team is uncertain, was also not on the practice field.Coach Adam Gase appeared unconcerned, though, downplaying the fact neither was present.“It’s voluntary,” Gase stressed. “(Bell) was here that first week (of offseason workouts), and we got a lot of good information that week to him.”According to the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement, teams with new coaches are allowed to hold a voluntary minicamp early in the offseason program. Teams also hold 10 sessions of organized team activities, which are also voluntary. The Jets’ mandatory minicamp begins June 4.Gase said Bell, signed as a free agent last month, was with the team during the first week of offseason workouts, and Lee has also been at the facility.The coach added that players who might not attend a voluntary session can remotely keep up to date on what the team is doing through the playbooks on their iPads.Bell not being at the on-field session Tuesday was magnified mainly by the fact he hasn’t participated in a practice since the 2017 season with Pittsburgh. He sat out all last season after declining a five-year, $70 million offer from the Steelers and then refusing to sign his $14.5 million franchise tender.The Jets signed him to a four-year, $52.5 million deal that includes $27 million in guaranteed money. During a conference call last month, Bell said he was happy to begin a new chapter in his career and would be physically ready to go when the season starts.“He has a pretty good training regimen that he goes through,” Gase said. “He knows how to get his body ready for training camp and the regular season. He’s been doing this for a minute.”While Bell will be the clear starter this season as a playmaker out of the backfield Womens Lac Edwards Jersey , Lee’s status with the Jets is murky.The linebacker’s name has been mentioned in trade speculation leading up to the draft. He has started at inside linebacker the past three seasons since being drafted in the first round out of Ohio State in 2016, but the Jets signed former Baltimore star C.J. Mosley last month to team with Avery Williamson at that spot.Lee is due $1.8 million this year and the Jets must decide by May 3 whether to exercise their fifth-year option on his contract for next season.“We’ll make that determination in due time,” general manager Mike Maccagnan said.Lee has not performed up to expectations since being the 20th overall pick, but showed some improvement last season with the first three interceptions of his career — including one returned for a touchdown. But he was suspended the final four games by the NFL for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.“Once again, it’s voluntary,” Gase said. “It’s not one of those things where we’re going to spend a ton of time asking questions. The guys that show up, we’re going to try to help get better.”NOTES: Gase is having the offense and defense practice separately during the voluntary minicamp instead of pitting them against each other this early in the offseason. “We just thought it was the best process for us, really,” Gase said. “We’re only two weeks into the offseason program. To me, it’s like, we want these guys to get comfortable with what we’re doing, how we do it, the structure of practices. It’s a little bit different from what some of these guys are used to.” … DL Leonard Williams on new defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, whose intense approach has been well-documented during his several NFL stops: “I love guys like that. I love those high-intensity, get-after-it type of coaches that really know how to push you and get the best out of you. … I’m looking forward to playing for him.” … QB Sam Darnold said working with Gase is “awesome” and he has learned a lot already from the Jets’ new coach, including how Gase prepared the Dolphins last year to face the young quarterback. “Yeah http://www.jetslockerroom.com/authentic-sam-darnold-jersey , he was like, ‘This is what we picked on you, this is how we wanted to defend you, this was kind of our mindset going into the game because we knew you were on the other side of the ball,'” Darnold said. “Designing a game plan to go against me, hearing his thoughts on that and what head coaches are kind of thinking going against me is very interesting.” FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Broadway Joe remains the standard for every quarterback that takes a snap for the New York Jets.Joe Namath is the face of the franchise, a larger-than-life figure even 50-plus years after delivering the team its first — and still, only — Super Bowl victory. He likes what he has seen so far from second-year QB Sam Darnold.So, there’s hope, that maybe — just maybe — he could be the one.“When I met him, I liked his demeanor,” Namath said Monday during a visit to Jets training camp. “We didn’t go to dinner or anything like that, but the few times that I’ve been in his presence and talking with him, he gives you a good vibe, a good feeling.“He’s respectfully humble. Physically Tarell Basham Jersey , he can play as well as anybody. He just needs to keep polishing himself, and the team needs to polish up.”That has been the Jets’ hope for decades as a long string of quarterbacks have tried and fallen short of having the success of Namath’s glory days.From Richard Todd to Ken O’Brien to Chad Pennington to Mark Sanchez to Geno Smith and now Darnold — and dozens of others in between — it has been Namath to whom each of them has been compared. It’s something that might seem to be an unfortunate predicament for the players labeled as potentially the “next Namath.”Namath has followed nearly every one of them, but he isn’t throwing any pity parties for them.“Feeling sorry and feeling bad, you know, maybe at funerals and things like that, man, but as an athlete, you better get over feeling sorry for yourself or somebody else,” the Pro Football Hall of Famer said. “You’re pulling for them, knowing it’s the nature of the game — you either win or you lose. And when you lose, you need to correct things.“But, if there’s any feeling sorry, it’s for the Jets fans that have been pretty darned good over the years. They’ve supported the team and we haven’t had that many playoff teams. Yeah, I like a good, upbeat, happy atmosphere Womens Rashard Robinson Jersey , and winning does that. So, we want to win, just like the other 31 teams.”The Jets have failed to make the playoffs since the 2010 season, the second-longest drought in franchise history.The team cleaned house in the offseason, firing coach Todd Bowles and later general manager Mike Maccagnan and replacing them with Adam Gase and Joe Douglas, respectively. Namath, who lives in southeast Florida, saw a lot of Gase during his three seasons coaching the Miami Dolphins before being fired after last season.“Watching the transition that he made with the Dolphins for those years was encouraging,” Namath said. “I liked his style. I’m excited for Sam and the offense to have him as a man that knows about offensive football. And, if you know offensive football, you damn sure better know defense. And, he does.”