Jets" Ryan Says He Missed Signs of Dissension FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - On the first morning of the Jets" off-season, Darrelle Revis refused to speak with reporters, barking, "Leave me alone," as he left the locker room. Santonio Holmes, who failed as a team captain but thrived as a disruptive force, carried his helmet while being escorted away by a member of the Jets" public-relations staff. Bart Scott chose to unload his frustrations on a photographer, spouting expletives and extending his middle finger. By Monday afternoon, Coach Rex Ryan and General Manager Mike Tannenbaum vowed that a team that finished 8-8 - that lost three consecutive games to miss the playoffs, that was undercut by dissension and strife, that combusted in a spectacular meltdown Sunday against the Miami Dolphins - would look different next season. But not at quarterback, where Mark Sanchez will remain the Jets" starter. Or at offensive coordinator, unless Brian Schottenheimer receives a promotion by filling a head-coaching vacancy, perhaps after he is interviewed soon in Jacksonville. No, their immediate response to an epic failure of a season consisted of Ryan's announcement that he would not select captains for next season. Otherwise, the Jets will just try to do better. The surreal scene at Jets headquarters Monday seemed fitting for a team that had peddled its inflated beliefs: in the end, all that noise produced nothing. Nowhere was that more apparent than in Ryan's answer to a question about Holmes. Ryan spent 36 seconds discussing what he perceives as Holmes's assets, uttering the phrases "good teammate" and "a lot of positive things," before mentioning that the Jets in general have to "change some things." Ryan lumped Holmes in with everyone else on the team, as if 52 other players had failed to show up to a wide receiver meeting called by Sanchez on Thursday or pouted in a huddle Sunday, leading to a skirmish that resulted in his benching. "I don't think I had the pulse of our team the way I've done in the past," said Ryan, who said that "became clear" during individual meetings with players Monday. When he met with the team as a whole, Ryan blistered the Jets with an impassioned speech that left him in tears. He pleaded for unity, beseeching the Jets several times to "get back to being a team and not a bunch of individuals," as guard Brandon Moore put it. It was harsh and unforgiving, but in their minds, players nodded along. "The truth hurts sometimes," Moore said. In reshaping the Jets" roster last off-season, Tannenbaum jettisoned many of their true leaders - Jerricho Cotchery, Tony Richardson and Thomas Jones - in favor of those with comparable ability but minimal locker-room presence, players like John Conner or Nick Folk. On Monday, Tannenbaum said he always considered whether the Jets were mortgaging character for talent but did not answer when asked whether he had made mistakes in assembling the roster. "Any guy that's a Jet is someone that we feel good about on all levels," said Tannenbaum, who added that he was confident in the team's nucleus. The Jets" formula for success had been so simple. They could afford to acquire players with questionable pasts, like Holmes and Antonio Cromartie, because of confidence that Ryan would form a cohesive group through sheer force of personality. As one off-season acquisition, Derrick Mason, evolved into a disaster and was traded to Houston, Holmes's fusillade of critical comments toward Sanchez and the offensive line reinforced Ryan's miscalculation of Holmes as captain material. When Holmes and Moore met with him in his office leading to their Oct. 17 game against Miami, Ryan was satisfied. "I thought that we were past all that," he said, adding later, but "we were not as close of a football team as I thought we were." Of Holmes, guard Matt Slauson said: "That kind of stuff destroys teams. That's Football 101: you don't call out your teammates. You do, but not like that. You don't call them out publicly. If you've got a problem, you go up to them and say, "Hey, I've got an issue." You don't go to the press and blast them like that. But that's something that will be fixed. It will be done internally, and not at the behest of a captain. Ryan called that experiment "a huge mistake," even though the Jets" five other captains - Moore, Sione Pouha, Revis, Sanchez and Eric Smith - were well respected in the locker room. "I want to have 53 of the same type of guys," Ryan said.