Yet another example of how Demario Davis can be a role model for young Jets

The reasons that it's a positive that the New York Jets brought in Demario Davis continue to stack up. Aside from the obvious and direct on-field benefit of adding a future Hall of Fame inside linebacker, the intangible stuff is what will stick with the franchise – and its young core – the longest.

The Jets finished 25th in team defense and 29th in rush defense. They've also lost both Quincy Williams and Quinnen Williams over the course of 7 months, so their already struggling interior defense needed all the help it could get this offseason. Solving that problem with Demario Davis is about as good as it gets.

But it actually somehow gets better when you dissect all the other ways he can impact this young group. And we just got another example of how he can do that on day one.

How Jets LB Demario Davis maintains his body

Some athletes can treat their bodies like a waste disposal system, whether food-related or otherwise, and somehow stick around for a decade or more. Just look at Chad Ochocinco and his McDonald's obsession. Or James Harden and his vigorous nightlife activities over the years. But that's not a smart bet to make. Not on your future.

Youth is wasted on the young, and all too often do athletes learn such lessons when it's far too late. They say the only way to learn in life is to fail. But in professional sports, you only get so many failures before you're gone. Sometimes, you just get one.

That's why Demario Davis' massive annual spend on offseason recovery, per ESPN's Rich Cimini in a recent article, is just what the youngest Jets need to see this offseason. It's natural for young guys to emulate the veterans on their teams.

Who else are the rookies going to look up to? For Jets rookies to emulate Demario Davis, a guy who spends close to a million dollars per year on his body, is everything the front office could ask for and more.

According to Cimini, Davis was ready to call it quits back in 2016, at the ripe young age of 26. His body was a mess, and prior to a chance meeting with a doctor of naturopathic medicine to treat plantar fasciitis, he could not take the pain anymore.

But thanks to a brochure seemingly dropped from the football gods in heaven to his Buffalo hotel, he found Dr. Alexis Luczak. And the rest is history.

His newfound primary provider completely altered his training strategy and, in turn, his career. What began as a simple "foot detox" turned into a decade of "reversing the aging process," as Luczak put it.

What was supposed to be one session became 10 years of red-light therapy, Electromagnetic Field Therapy, dry-needle therapy, cupping and scraping, ART (active release techniques), Epsom-salt baths, intermittent fasting, a "caveman" diet, a hyperbaric chamber, and a future Ammortal chamber bed he plans to break out this season for sleep.

According to team doctors, his personal doctors, and everyone who's seen him in Jet-land thus far, he is literally a medical marvel. Playing such a physical position, at such a high level, for this long, is borderline unheard of. And the numbers back it up.

This is a guy who's logged over 13,000 defensive snaps in 227 games over 14 professional seasons. And just last season, he put up a combined 143 tackles, 2 forced fumbles, and a Pro Football Focus rush defense grade of 78.8. He's a machine. That much is clear. But what the David Baileys, D'Angelo Ponds, and T'Vondre Sweats can take away from how he's turned into this machine is what matters.

"My body is my company, and the brand that comes from playing the game is my company. If I don't invest in the engine of the company and the brand of the company, I just don't think that's wise. I just try to be a good steward of what's been given."

Demario Davis

The fact that Davis devotes nearly $1 million each year to simply recovering from the season shows why he is light-years ahead of his peers in terms of intangibles. He doesn't simply want to make an awesome living – he wants to maximize his talent and his short time in the league.

That's a mindset plenty of young players lack. And even those with their heads in the right place don't follow through to the level required.

But the young guys on the Jets aren't just going to be hearing veterans talk the talk. That happens in every locker room. No, they're going to actually see their leader walk the walk. And more importantly, spend the spend. It's one thing to give full effort to training. It's another thing to also put your money where your body is.

I can't say for certain that this means all the young Jets will have their heads screwed on straight. Maybe none of them will truly absorb Davis' example. But all you can do is try. And Aaron Glenn and Darren Mougey are certainly trying by bringing Demario Davis back to Florham Park once again.

If the culture doesn't improve, if the vibes don't get better, and the team isn't playing hard come mid-season, it's certainly not for a lack of effort by the Jets' front office. And it's certainly not the fault of Demario Davis.

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