Jets Q&A: Keller passes tests, returns

What happened to Dustin Keller in the second quarter?

The tight end tried to hurdle a pair of defenders along the right sideline and got clocked, somersaulting after Terrence McGee upended him and landing hard. Keller was a little dizzy and had to pass concussion tests before he returned at the start of the second half.

"He was definitely groggy," Rex Ryan said. "He's got to quit trying to be Dwight Stones, high jump champ or something. He did take a good hit on his shoulder and his head, got up wobbly. Obviously, you bring him in, you make sure you go through the NFL protocol and make sure that he was OK, we tested him . . . I was concerned with him."

How dazed was Keller?

"I was just shook up for a couple of seconds," Keller said, "and then obviously, the doctors were concerned. So they brought me in the locker room. I was pretty upset about that because I was fine and knew I could get back into the game and everything. But he took me in the locker room, took me through all these tests over and over again, which was really annoying. But obviously, you have to follow NFL protocol. So they did. I passed all the tests."

Was it an instinctive thing to try to take flight?

"It's just a last-second call, and that one just happened to be a bad one," Keller said. " But I was told that it would've been a first down. So whatever is best for the team . . . Rex along with 53 other guys told me don't ever do that again. So I'm going to try not to, but you never know. You never know on that last second what you are going to come up with."

Speaking of injuries, is Shonn Greene OK?

Greene took a blow to his neck and head in the fourth quarter, got checked out and did not return. Greene also had to go through some concussion tests but said he's fine.

"I got dinged up on the hit, got to the sideline," he said. "I felt better, but had to go through evaluations and stuff like that . . . It didn't make too much sense to come back in the game."

What was Mark Sanchez thinking on that first-quarter interception in the end zone?

"It kind of got away from me a little bit," he said. "It just sailed. Bad throws happen, but they just can't down there."

What about the snap Sanchez botched in the shotgun just before the half, turning it over to Buffalo?

"It was just a crappy catch, bad catch," he said. "Shouldn't have happened. Stupid."

Any thoughts about limiting Buffalo's productive back Fred Jackson to 82 yards?

"Well, he made me look silly on the first play of the game," linebacker Bart Scott said. "I had a clean shot at him and he swim-moved me. I always knew he was a quality back. He has great vision and he is their No. 1 player. We knew if we had the opportunity to slow him down, we had to stop him.''

What was up with that chest bump between Ryan and Santonio Holmes after the wideout's 8-yard touchdown reception?

"We always talk on the sideline and even before the game," Holmes said. "If '10' gets in the end zone, what's going to be our celebration? So we've got that nice little connection going, and when we do talk about it, good things happen for us."

Are the Jets happy they can put that talk about losing after their byes under Ryan to rest?

"It was great," safety Jim Leonhard said. "We made a point of it earlier in the week to make sure we got that momentum back and got the energy back, because that's where we struggled the last couple of years."