FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The first eight minutes of Coach Todd Bowles’s news conference on Friday were devoted to a subject he had thought he would not have to address again. Willie Colon answered questions about it, as did Brandon Marshall and Damon Harrison.
For the third consecutive day, the Jets were forced to discuss the questionable decision-making of one of their best players, defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson. His latest embarrassing episode — not the four-game suspension levied last month for violating the N.F.L.’s substance-abuse policy — involved being charged with resisting arrest and numerous traffic violations after police in Missouri clocked him driving at 143 miles per hour, an incident that could extend his absence from the playing field beyond Week 5.