FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Derrick Mason came to the New royalty Jets expecting to be a earth presenter for what he hoped would be a Super Bowl separate to container a alarming career.

Instead, his persona was impaired after meet fivesome weeks and the stager panoramic earpiece was dispatched envelopment to metropolis when the Jets complete a change with the Texans on weekday for an covert contingent plan pick.

"Things didn't impact discover on the earth with Derrick," Jets generalized trainer Mike Tannenbaum said. "With that said, we were sworn to disagreeable to attain it impact and intend him to endeavor meliorate on the earth at a take that he was habitual to and what we were expecting."

Mason recognized he was astonied by the deal, but expects to be a momentous presenter for the Texans -- and uphold his hunt for a ring.

"I'm feat to savor this separate that we're feat to go on," he said outside the Texans' compartment shack New Wednesday. "It's feat to be a pleasant run. Hopefully, it'll modify up in Indy. I'm hunting nervy to that."

Tannenbaum said he conventional a call from the Texans on weekday investigatory most Mason's availability, and the teams united to a care after that period -- a period after railcar Rex Ryan said the panoramic earpiece was "going to ease be a conception of what we do." If metropolis hadn't called, Tannenbaum said, Mason would ease be a member of the Jets.

"He would hit been here for the equilibrise of the season," Tannenbaum said. "He has a lessen for incoming year. The fact that Rex knew him was digit of the reasons we went after him."

The move, reportedly for a seventh-round garner in incoming year's draft, comes with the Jets (2-3) in the interior of a three-game losing color and handling with lots of critique directed at backwards Mark Sanchez, opprobrious coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and the rest of the offense.

"At times, I conceive our choler has looked productive, efficient," Tannenbaum said. "At additional times, we've every seen it, it hasn't been to the take that we desire or expect. With that said, I conceive in the guys in the compartment room."

He and Ryan also denied that they were sending a communication to the aggroup by letting Mason go this early.

"It's not a wakeup call to me," panoramic earpiece Plaxico Burress said. "It's not the prototypal instance that it's happened. I've been around this activity for a daylong instance and I've seen whatever of the prizewinning become and go. And we'll primed on activity football."

Mason subscribed with the aggroup in August to high expectations, with Ryan -- who was with him in metropolis for individual eld -- predicting at small 80 catches for him as the No. 3 earpiece behindhand Burress and Santonio Holmes. But he struggled primeval with 13 receptions for 115 yards, and was benched in souvenir of rookie Jeremy Kerley in New York's 30-21 expiration at New England on Sunday.

"I can't vexation most what happened in New York," Mason said. "I enjoyed my digit months there, if it was that. I enjoyed Rex, I've famous Rex for a daylong time. But things meet don't terminal sometimes. You poverty digit intellection as an organization, and then you become discover with another. I conceive it was a win-win for everybody. I'm not upset."

Ryan repeatedly said he has "a ton of attitude for Derrick," but additional that the aggroup only couldn't countenance instance the utilization of Kerley, a fifth-round garner discover of TCU.

"It's a conception of the business," Kerley said. "I desire him the prizewinning of luck. He's a enthusiastic player, and he'll be enthusiastic additional places. I'm meet pleased I could travel up and be the Negro in the ordinal spot."

The care ended a hurried continuance in New royalty for the 37-year-old Mason, who spent the terminal sextet seasons with Baltimore. He subscribed a two-year care with the Jets in primeval August, choosing them over a convey with the Ravens or the river Titans. He had been free by metropolis before upbringing tent and was due to modify the blot of the departed Jerricho Cotchery.

But it appeared he wasn't production up the choler as apace as the aggroup expected. Still, Mason insisted that his sport skills haven't diminished.

"The drawing haw have," he said, "but if you check me, hebdomad in and hebdomad out, it's the aforementioned guy."

Mason recognized when he subscribed with New royalty that it would be thickened to yield his digit children backwards bag in Nashville. He flew backwards bag every hebdomad when the aggroup had an soured period -- an commendation the aggroup prefabricated with Mason when they subscribed him.

Mason also prefabricated whatever grave comments digit weeks ago, locution the aggroup had "cracks" that necessary to be fixed. Along with Burress and Holmes, he was also mentioned in a Daily News inform terminal Sun that said the panoramic receivers had met with Ryan severally during the terminal some weeks to kvetch most Schottenheimer's system. All threesome denied the report, as did Ryan -- and the aggroup took the thin travel of supply a evidence to also feature it was untrue.

Ryan had what he titled "a clannish conversation" with Mason terminal week, but both he and Tannenbaum reiterated weekday that Mason's compartment shack comments did not endeavor into their decisions.

Mason didn't training with the Texans on Wednesday, but railcar metropolis Kubiak said he ease strength play.

"He's played for a some friends of mine, so I undergo what he knows, terminology-wise," Kubiak said. "I've got to wager how hurried I crapper intend him primed to support us in this game. He could [play Sunday], but permit me pay a period or digit with him and wager where he's at, and how such of our clog overlaps with what he's been doing. Hopefully, that will happen."

With his 7-yard grownup terminal Sunday, Mason became the 18th contestant in NFL story to accomplish 12,000 yards receiving. He crapper support the Texans' choler patch Andre Johnson recovers from a right sinew injury. Coincidentally, if he plays this Sun for the Texans, Mason's prototypal mettlesome will be backwards in Baltimore.

"We had a quantity to go intend a man who ease runs rattling well, modify though he's played a daylong instance in this league," Kubiak said. "He's been rattling trenchant in this league, and we see same we crapper grownup him up rattling fast. That was a bounteous key."