New York Post

Hardman says he’s no leaker

- By BRIDGET REILLY breilly@nypost.com

The Mecole Hardman-Jets feud continues.

On Friday afternoon, the ex-Jets receiver and threetime Super Bowl champion with the Chiefs barked back on X after Sauce Gardner appeared to imply earlier this week that Hardman leaked game plans to opponents this past season.

“There were FALSE accusation­s made about me and MY CHARACTER! To set the record straight, I have never and would never leak gameplans to another team.” Hardman posted. “I have never been a person to give an opponent an upper hand I always want to win no matter the circumstan­ces !!!!! ”

The back-and-forth comments started after Hardman called out his old team this week on “The Pivot” podcast, where he claimed the Jets’ offense had “no standard,” and he admitted he “was so checked out” toward the end of his time in East Rutherford before his October trade to the eventual Super Bowlwinnin­g Chiefs.

“It’s the lies and the way they handled me. I didn’t like it at all,” he said on the show, explaining why his career didn’t work out with the Jets. “You can’t do that to a player.”

Upon hearing his comments, a few Jets spoke up on social media.

Gardner, in a since-deleted post on X, gave his take on Hardman.

“We ain’t gon talk about how our offensive gameplan got leaked vs. the Eagles tho,” Gardner wrote.

Gardner also seemingly shaded Hardman by reacting with an “Lol” to a 2013 post of Hardman’s that read: “People say don’t snitch ? Ion see it like that . ! If your life on the line im telling on everybody .. !”

Jets punter Thomas Morstead also responded Wednesday morning, writing “careful getting informatio­n from disgruntle­d former employees.”

“Getting beat out by a rookie free agent after being guaranteed millions of dollars is tough to deal with. Entitlemen­t is a killer of opportunit­y. You have to earn it every year,” he wrote on X, likely referring to rookie wideout Xavier Gipson.

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