What about Bob?

(Editor's note: Evan Drellich is a summer intern for Newsday who covered yesterday's Atlantic League All-Star game yesterday in Newark. Among those participating in the game were Jets players Kerry Rhodes, Thomas Jones and D'Brickashaw Ferguson, as well as Giants All Pro defensive end Justin Tuck.)

By Evan Drellich

Justin Tuck was mouthing off to Kerry Rhodes during the introductions to a celebrity softball game in Newark on Tuesday evening, and Rhodes wasn’t having any of it.

Rhodes, playing for an opposing team, charged at Tuck near home plate at the Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium. He pulled up short, smiling, and walked back down the third baseline as introductions wrapped up.

“I got introduced and I was like yelling at him, ‘Our roar is louder than yours,’ and he just ran over,’” said Tuck. “That’s just love, that’s how we are. We’re both Alabama boys. We didn’t actually play against each other, but we followed each other’s careers in high school.”

Rhodes said he had heard Tuck’s response to his comment that the Jets have the best defense in the NFL. Tuck, in a CBSSports.com story last week, said: "If anybody's saying they have the best 'anything' right now, they're sadly mistaken."

Rhodes didn’t back down: “I heard he commented on my statement about us having the best defense, but we’re definitely going to have the best defense this year. And if they want to take it a little step farther and have some fun about it, we can do that.”

Tuck, told of Rhodes’ insistence that the Jets were top dog, reiterated his sentiments from last week.

“Listen, me talking a lot right now, it really doesn’t do justice to the fact I told them we’ll find out after 17 regular season games,” he said. “But obviously, if you have to put something in your story, obviously the Giants have the best defense.”

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