Dennis Waszak Jr.

NEW YORK — Rex Ryan looked out the window at the Manhattan skyline and a little bit of the brash and bold New York Jets coach from a few years ago slipped out.

The declarations and guarantees don’t come nearly as often as they used to because Ryan says he has learned a few things over the years. Deep down, though, he insists he’s still the same guy he has always been.

No matter what people say.

NEW YORK — A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the New York Jets will release longtime nose tackle Sione Po’uha in a cost-cutting move.

Po’uha was due to make $4.9 million in base salary this season, which would have become guaranteed if he remained on the roster Thursday. The move Tuesday, a few hours before the start of free agency, will save the Jets about $3.8 million on the salary cap.

NEW YORK — From nearly unstoppable to nearly invisible.

Tim Tebow was two wins from the Super Bowl a year ago. Now, he’s pretty much a player without a team — likely to be released by the New York Jets after one frustrating season and his hometown team in Jacksonville already pulling in the welcome mat.

Even Tebow doesn’t how this will unfold. A backup role on another NFL team? A position change? The Canadian Football League?

AP Photo NY113EDITOR’S NOTE — AP sports writer Dennis Waszak and his family had moved into their Staten Island ’dream house’ just weeks before Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of the New York City borough. These are his recollections a week after the storm hit and upended life for Waszak, his wife and their three children.

NEW YORK — I was the first to cry.

Not my wife. Not our three kids.

I was standing in our pitch-black basement as water streamed through the broken windows like a waterfall. A bathtub drain gurgled, the slimy sewage quickly pooling in an ominous mess. Just eight weeks after we’d bought our dream house — three bedrooms, big kitchen, pool, white fence and a finished basement — Superstorm Sandy was ripping it apart with a fury that was hard to comprehend, along with the rest of our Staten Island neighborhood.

NEW YORK -- Andrew Luck knows exactly where he's heading, and so does Robert Griffin III.

For the rest of the college stars preparing for the NFL draft tonight, the anxiety is building. Nobody is looking forward to the green room at Radio City Music Hall.

Pouha -- a former Utah Utes standout -- says Monday that Johnson putting his arms out and acting like a plane -- something Santonio Holmes does after scoring -- but then crashing into the turf in the Jets' 28-24 win Sunday was "kind of a dagger" because of the attacks that occurred 10 years ago in Manhattan, a few miles from MetLife Stadium.

Pouha says it was an "unprofessional" gesture by Johnson, whom he says didn't take into account that 9/11 is a "sacred moment."

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Plaxico Burress planned to hop on a plane to Florida this week with his family and meet up with some old friends.

Mickey Mouse. Goofy. Maybe even Donald Duck.