When you practice sluggishly under Todd Bowles, you will run after practice. All of you.
“You can’t practice average if you want to be great,” Bowles said.
The message has not been lost on rookie outside linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin.
The Jets’ self-proclaimed “sack fiend,” who is showing early signs he will have a chance to develop into the pass rusher Rex Ryan never had, the pass rusher Vernon Gholston was supposed to be.
Mauldin took some first-team snaps Monday as grizzled Calvin Pace was afforded rest, and he was hard to miss flying around the edge.