Adam Gase warms to Jets' fiery practice 

Sunday certainly wasn’t a day of rest for the Jets, who had their most physical — even chippy — day of practice in camp.

What was Adam Gase’s assessment of Sunday’s festivities?

“A spirited practice to say the least,” Gase said on a Zoom call. “It seems like tempers were flaring a little bit, but that’s what’s going to happen sometimes when we’re doing a lot of running the football, and the big guys start getting a little irritated with each other. It’s good to see that both sides of the ball aren’t backing down.”

Gase, for one, doesn’t mind the occasional, training-camp skirmish.

“As long as it doesn’t happen every day, every [practice] period,” Gase said. “But at the same time, it’s good to see our guys with the fire they have.”

Linebacker Avery Williamson, who worked with the second-team defense Sunday, noticed the intensity of his teammates.

“Guys are going to get heated at times,” Williamson said. “As long as nobody gets hurt, that’s going to be a norm; guys are going to get into fights.”

But not Williamson.

“I tried to stay away from it because, shoot — especially now — I was tired as hell,” Williamson said after his second day of practice since being activated Saturday. “So I’m staying out of the way.”

A reporter mentioned to Williamson that fellow linebacker Jordan Jenkins seemed particularly agitated during practice.  

“He [Jenkins] was doing some jiujitsu moves out there,” Williamson cracked. “Stay away from him.”

'Changing it up'

Gase said he was going to adjust the Jets' schedule this week and hold a walk-through practice on Monday. There was no mention of a game-controlled scrimmage, though Gase said on Saturday that it will happen sometime this week.

“We feel like changing it up and going to a walk-through and then getting the rest of our week in before our day off [later this week],” Gase said. “We can get a lot of guys [who are injured back] out there to practice.”