--Another day and another practice in which LaDainian Tomlinson was sitting in the training room to rehabilitate his jammed big toe. "I get very frustrated, to be honest with you," Tomlinson said. "Just because I haven't missed much time -- even in practice. (Over) my career, I've been able to practice a lot of the practices that we have and I get very frustrated just because it's so boring when you don't practice and you're sitting up there in treatment. It's just a slow process trying to get healthy."

--Chargers defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell was the Jets' defensive coordinator from 2001-03.

--Count QB Philip Rivers among those not surprised with Darren Sproles' huge contributions on Sunday. "We all see that every day in practice," Rivers said. "He deserves it. The guy works in the offseason and in practice harder than anybody on the football team. You hate it when L.T. can't go, but Sproles steps up, scores on special teams, scores on offense, makes some great plays. He was outstanding."

--LT Marcus McNeill returned to work for the first time in six weeks on Wednesday and was upbeat. He's missed the preseason and first two games with a neck injury. McNeill said he's got a shot at playing Monday night. "It's definitely reasonable," McNeill said. "But I don't make the call. It's Norv's call. But as far as for me physically, I feel 100 percent and I'm ready to go out there and play. But I don't want to hurt the team by going out there if I'm not ready."

--Rookie CB Antoine Cason has collected two fourth-quarter turnovers in his first two NFL games. "Hopefully I can keep them coming, but more than that I hope we can make one of them count so I can really enjoy it," Cason said.

--Darren Sproles' 307 all purpose yards last week marked just the 23rd time since the NFL merger that a player has gone over 300 yards in a game.

--Jets wide receivers coach Noel Mazzone was the offensive coordinator at North Carolina State during Rivers' senior season in 2003.

--Running backs coach Jimmy Raye II is the father of Chargers Director of Player Personnel, Jimmy Raye III.

BY THE NUMBERS: 131 -- Average of total offensive yards collected by LaDainian Tomlinson in each of the four previous games against the Jets; he also has six touchdowns in that span.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "He's one of the few guys I had on my wall as a poster." -- QB Philip Rivers, on how big of a Brett Favre fan he was growing up in Alabama.