If you know one thing about Sauce Gardner, it's this: If you think you see something in the cornerback's game that he needs to work on, he's already working on it.

"I love it, I love how everything I do is under a microscope," Gardner said following the Jets' Thursday training camp practice. "I was having a conversation with [Michael] Carter yesterday, and I said I set the bar so high that I'm really competing with myself now.

"Everything I do is under a microscope. And I love that. I love challenges. I love everything about that. And it took me a little time to have that mentality, but I embrace it now. A lot."

It was hard to imagine anyone casting an evil eye his way in his first two Jets seasons as he burst on the scene with the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award in 2022 plus two

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