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The Jets are their usual dispiriting mess on the field, but in the executive suites their leaders sound testosterone-infused, insisting that their players manifest the manly virtues of playing through pain.
Of late the Jets confronted the challenge posed by Kelechi Osemele, a 6-foot-5, 300-plus-pound offensive lineman who has the accumulated scars of an eight-year-long N.F.L. life. He’s had sprained and twisted toes, knees and ankles, and his back can creak like an old wooden door. Sometime in the past year, perhaps in August and perhaps earlier, he tore the labrum in his right shoulder.