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Defensive boss: Some will be ‘shocked’ by Jets’ pass rushers

Gregg Williams is fired up about the guys on his defense whose job is to make quarterbacks downright uncomfortable.

So, all that talk the past few months about the perceived lack of an elite pass rusher on the New York Jets? The ever-confident defensive coordinator insists you — and anyone else around the NFL taking his squad lightly — can take the disrespect elsewhere.

“I think there’s a lot of people here that people are going to be shocked about by the time the season’s over,” Williams said Friday. “(We have) a lot better people here than everybody keeps crediting. You haven’t heard me say one thing about needs in that area.

“You haven’t heard me say one thing. I’m not worried about that area.”

It might not exactly be the second coming of the “New York Sack Exchange” with Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau, Marty Lyons and Abdul Salaam routinely planting QBs into the turf in the 1980s. But, Williams thinks he has enough talented players to give teams bigtime fits on a regular basis.

That hasn’t been the case in recent seasons, though. The Jets have ranked in the top 10 in the NFL in total sacks just twice in the past 10 years: sixth with 45 in 2014, Rex Ryan’s last year as coach; and eighth with 40 in 2010, Ryan’s second season.

New York also hasn’t had a player with double-digit sacks since Muhammad Wilkerson had 12 in 2015.

Big things are expected, though, from the likes of DE Henry Anderson and OLB Jordan Jenkins, who each set career highs by tying for the team lead last season with seven sacks.