PHOENIX — Antonio Cromartie and his family are flying back to New Jersey next week to the home they lived in during his four years with the Jets.

It sounds like he’s hoping they can stay.

Cromartie, who played last season for the Cardinals, is scheduled to become a free agent in March. A year after the Jets released him, Cromartie said he is open to a reunion.

“My door is always open to returning,” he said Wednesday. “Everybody knows I didn’t want to leave. I’m going to keep my door open and see what happens.”

Cromartie, 30, is an intriguing option for the cornerback-needy Jets. He played for new coach Todd Bowles last season in Arizona, so he could help Bowles teach his system to the Jets. Cromartie knows many of the players on the team and should be affordable. Cromartie said his family is excited about going back to New Jersey next week, where his kids will return to school.

Jets linebacker Demario Davis spoke to Cromartie recently about Bowles’ defense, and Cromartie said he may get together with Davis soon to help him with it.

“It’s fun, to be honest with you,” Cromartie said of Bowles’ defense. “He’s a big-time guy that has a true open-door policy. If you don’t like something that’s going into the defense, you can always go talk to him and he will throw it out. He’s all about his guys … playing fast and understanding that the simple is easy. That’s really what it’s all about for him.”

Cromartie’s teammate with the Cardinals last season Tyrann Mathieu said the Jets need some talent to play Bowles’ system.

“You’ve got to have some good players on defense. I’ll tell you that,” Mathieu said. “It’s complicated and it’s complex. If you have one or two guys that can kind of control the group, your chances of succeeding are going to be great.”

Mathieu said he was disappointed to see Bowles go.

“I wanted him to stick around for my prime when I get my contract,” he said. “I guess New York is New York.”

Cromartie said it will be a smooth transition for the Jets players to go from Rex Ryan’s defense to Bowles’.

“[They are] very similar,” he said. “I think he blitzes more than Rex. I think this year we blitzed maybe 54, 55 percent of the time. He’s a guy that’s going to make sure he’s always adding pressure to make sure to get the quarterback out of the pocket or make sure the quarterback is making errant throws. The defenses are very similar. For me, it was very simple. It was basically the same calls. To me, it’s the same defense — fire zones, man-to-man coverage, a lot of zero coverage and mixing in other coverages. The guys there should be very excited about it.”