3 takeaways from the Jets' Week 10 win over the Cleveland Browns

After dropping their first seven games, the Jets earned their second straight victory,  27-20 over the Browns. Here are three takeaways:

1. Quincy Williams made a statement

It was quite a week for Williams. His brother Quinnen was traded to the Cowboys and  Quincy was told he was getting demoted  because he wasn’t performing. He made sure that when he got in the game, he made his presence felt.

Williams, who missed four games with a shoulder injury, had seven tackles and a sack and made sure the Jets know he still deserves to be an every-down linebacker.

“I just did what Quincy always do. I’m being honest with you guys,” he said. “The biggest thing is getting on the field, actually, and getting to showcase that I was injured. So it’s really reminding the Jets’ organization who I really am.”

Williams said when he heard he was no longer starting, he went on a little “Muhammad Ali” rant. He was going to make them “say my name as many times as they can.”

After his sack, Williams did his brother’s sack dance, although he said it wasn’t planned. Dallas is on a bye, so Quinnen saw it and texted Quincy.

“I love my brother,” Quincy said. “He got a chance to watch it. Came back to my phone, he said he’s seen it though. So it felt good. It felt good.”

2. Will McDonald was relentless

The defensive end had four sacks, matching the franchise record held by Mark Gastineau and John Abraham. This came after Aaron Glenn met with him during the week and the defensive end told his coach he would be “relentless.”

“I have a lot of belief in that player,” Glenn said. “For him to come out and do exactly what he said and just be relentless and go make plays, he went out there and he did that.”

McDonald hadn’t been that productive since he had two sacks against Pittsburgh in Week 1. He had only one since then before wrecking Sunday’s game.

“I just told him I was just going to keep being relentless,” McDonald said. “So I’m going to just move forward with that from the beginning of the season to the end of the season. It’s simple.

“I’ve been relentless since the beginning of the season. And don’t nothing want to stand in front of you when you just keep being relentless the whole time; they’re going to move up out of the way.”

3. Emotional Mangold tribute

The Jets honored standout center  Nick Mangold,  who died two weeks ago of complications from kidney disease. His funeral was Tuesday.

Former Jets tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson, of Freeport, addressed the crowd before the game and said he was “grateful” to know Mangold, play with him and consider him a friend.

Fans received white T-shirts with Mangold’s likeness. Staff members wore black T-shirts with the No. 74 and “A Jet For Life” across the back. Mangold’s family members were the honorary captains of the game.

Glenn said it’s been “a very emotional” week.

“To see his wife and his kids out there and to see how strong that she was handling this, to see how strong his kids were handling it,” he said, “that in itself just tells you a lot about who he was and how he was the leader of his family and how much of a rock his wife was.”

By Al Iannazzone

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Al Iannazzone covers the Jets for Newsday after spending nearly two decades on the NBA beat with Knicks and Nets.