Jets Q&A: What's with the quick timeout?

For some strange reason, the Jets were confused with their personnel, and fullback John Conner didn't run onto the field until about six seconds remained on the 35-second play clock. Not wanting to get hit with a 5-yard delay-of-game penalty, the Jets burned a timeout only six seconds into the game.

"That wasn't great," Rex Ryan said. "That's not going to go on my coaching resume. It was just a miscommunication on personnel. Somebody heard one thing, somebody heard something else. We only had 10 out there. By the time we got the guy in there, we didn't have any time."

"That's something we've got to get cleaned up," the quarterback said. "If we don't get the right guys in the huddle and we're not getting the play until late, then we're fighting the clock . . . That's one of the things that needs to be cleaned up. That's very important."

"I wasn't quite sure," he said. "I thought my butt hit, but any way it goes, you can't let go in that situation."

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"I was kind of angry," he said, "so I wanted to get into the end zone."

"We want the ball," LaDainian Tomlinson said. "We want to score first. With our defense, that will be tough on people. That shows us Rex does have confidence that we can go down and score. I was one of the captains. Westhoff told me, 'We're taking the ball if we win the toss.' My thought was, 'OK. All right, Rex.' That's a good feeling. When the guys hear that, they say, 'All right. We're taking the ball. Let's go score.' "

"That was my call," Ryan said of a play in which Sanchez was sacked for a 9-yard loss and lost a fumble. "I thought if we could get the first down, we could basically run out the clock and get the game over. I thought we had a chance to convert on it. Obviously, you go back on it and wish you would have just punted it or tried a long field goal . . . Their kid [Tamba Hali] made a nice play, stripped the ball."

"We're just trying to win a game," he said, "trying to play hard, play for these guys, the coaches. And this was another great game plan. Like I said before, that's the last thing on my mind."

"It was weird having to play against old teammates," said Jones, who gained only 12 yards on five carries for the Chiefs. "I had mixed emotions, obviously. Jets fans showed me a lot of love, of which I appreciated. We didn't win the game and that's what we came up here for. That's the tough part. Regardless of whether it's the Jets or any other team, a loss is a loss.''

"I'm not getting into the penalties," Haley said. "Like I've said, the officials have a very difficult job. The one thing we can't do is lose our composure over a call. That's on me, 100 percent."