They won a Super Bowl together with Sean Payton in New Orleans before Bountygate derailed their careers, their reputations and even their personal relationship.
Now they are the NFL’s Odd Couple, two grizzled football pit bulls thrust together by Adam Gase to try to end the Jets’ 50-plus year championship drought.
It will either prove to be a master stroke by Gase that will light a fire under his Gang Green defense or leave the operation riddled with gangrene if defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and senior assistant/outside linebackers coach Joe Vitt struggle with letting bygones be bygones when the inevitable adversity strikes.