This is not to say there aren’t times that Byfuglien feels his age around this group of young Jets. Much has changed since he was a rookie back in 2005–06. “Kids are different now,” Byfuglien says, eyes widening. “There’s phones now — they’re the first thing you see, all the time. We had cell phones, but text messaging wasn’t very big. Now you got Twitter, you got everything. Everyone can go on their phone and Google anything you need to figure out. You can’t sit and argue with anybody anymore.” Byfuglien shakes his head and smiles. “This is a young room, but you adapt to the lifestyle. You’ve got the older guys and you got the young guys. For the most part, the kids have been really good, listening and taking advice.”

Well, only once they put their phones down, right? “That’s a hard one,” Byfuglien says, laughing. “My kids won’t even listen to me on that one.”

No. 33 says the young guys aren’t going to him for advice all that often, and he isn’t one to offer it up unless he can see someone really needs it. “I just do my own thing,” he says.

From time to time, his teammates will ask him what it was like to win. Usually he’ll tell them a little story, but sometimes, he doesn’t even do that.

“It’s something you can’t explain, you just have to be a part of it and go do it,” Byfuglien says. “It’s one of those things that, instead of asking, why don’t we just go achieve it?”