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Survivor Steve McLendon has become perfect mentor for Jets rookie

The interview will have to wait.

Practice ended a few minutes ago at Jets training camp, but Steve McLendon still has work to do. The veteran nose tackle heads to an area adjacent to the field and begins working on some rush moves. A Jets staffer tells a waiting reporter that McLendon will speak to him when he is done. McLendon is not trying to be rude, but he has work to do.

“You have to continue to work on your craft because the day you stop working, that’s the day you start falling off and I never want to fall off,” McLendon says when he is ready to be interviewed.