Rex Ryan plans to spend more time with offense

Rex Ryan thinks he has a solution to help him get a better pulse on the Jets. The defensive-minded coach plans to spend time in some of the offense's meetings.

"I will definitely be around the offense more, there's no doubt," Ryan said Tuesday on ESPN 1050's "The Michael Kay Show." "My first year, in all the minicamps, I was putting in the defense, but I would go to different meetings. Going back on it, I think I had a much better idea of our team back then."

Ryan has been criticized for not knowing more about every aspect of the team. In Sunday's season-ending loss at Miami, he said he was unaware why Santonio Holmes wasn't in the game in the final minutes. He'd been benched by offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer after teammates thought he quit on them.

Some Jets tired of Holmes' antics after he called out the offensive line twice in October, and his verbal disagreement with Mark Sanchez in a quarterback/receivers meeting last week didn't help. Being impervious to such a toxic locker-room environment doesn't put Ryan in a good light.

"This team is my responsibility, and again, the criticism needs to be placed on my shoulders," Ryan said. "I accept that."

General manager Mike Tannenbaum, speaking later on Kay's show, said Holmes' behavior must change. "Some of the things that happened this year, they can't happen again."

Asked if he's confident he can bring back someone not exactly adored by some teammates, Tannenbaum said: "That's a concern, and I've talked to a number of players over the last two days, and there's a lot of things that we need to address."

Sanchez seems sure he can co-exist with Holmes. "We've got to make things work," Sanchez said later on Kay's show. "Anytime I get discouraged about it, I just flip on his highlight tape of the first year he came to us, and how much production he had.

"Anytime you are not winning, guys get frustrated, and that frustration manifests itself in some ways I'm sure guys wish they can take back."

Notes & quotes: Schottenheimer is scheduled to interview to be the Jaguars' head coach. "We do want him back,'' Tannenbaum said, "but it wouldn't surprise any of us if he got that job." . . . The NFL is looking into Bart Scott's actions in the locker room Monday. Scott made an obscene gesture to a photographer and used an expletive. Ryan said Scott could be disciplined by the team.