Laveranues Coles held court Monday afternoon in the locker room at Weeb Ewbank Hall, where the members of the media radically outnumbered the members of the Jets.

The hungry horde of camera, recorder, microphone and notepad wielders had one collective interest in mind, and that was this weekend’s highly anticipated rematch with the New England Patriots.

“I know everyone is trying to put a lot of emphasis on what they’re doing,” Coles said of the Patriots’ 13-game winning streak. “But again, they’re doing it, it’s not us. There isn’t really much we can say or do anything about what they’re doing, so we've got to go out and control what we do.

“It’s just another game,” added the eighth-year wide receiver from FSU. “Guys just want to go out there and have fun and that’s what it’s about. The game itself, it’s not about any outside distractions or anything like that. It’s about what we do between those lines.”

On the inquisitive minds of every NFL fan this week is the reactions of Jets head coach Eric Mangini and Pats coach Bill Belichick will have in regard to Week 1’s videotaping incident, which the media dubbed "Spygate."

“What is Spygate?” Coles asked. “I don’t know anything about it so it doesn’t mean anything to me personally.”

Has Coles had a chance to notice any anger coming from behind enemy lines?

“Not that I know of. I haven’t paid attention to see if anyone’s angry or not,” he said. “I don’t know if anyone can tell. They wear helmets when they're playing so if you can tell that they’re angry then you got me on that one.”

At 13-0, the Patriots are averaging a league-best 38.7 points per game on offense while giving up only 17.1 points per game on defense. But Jerricho Cotchery, Coles' fellow wideout who had six catches for 57 yards in the Jets’ 38-14 loss to the Pats in Week 1, doesn’t see the lopsided margin of victory as disrespectful.

“They are just trying to execute their game plan,” said the Jets leader in receptions and receiving yards. “If it’s early on and the score starts to get out of control — and it's been that way for a couple of teams — they have just been going about their business trying to get better as a team. That’s what I see them trying to do.”

Another distraction that will be constantly analyzed this week is the Las Vegas pointspread.

“You know me. I'm not a betting man so it doesn’t bother me at all,” said Coles, who battled through his injured ankle Sunday for seven receptions, five for first downs, and 48 yards. “Oddsmakers are just doing their thing, that’s all. We were one-point underdogs against Miami. It didn’t make a difference then, so why would it make a difference now?”

“We don’t feel disrespected by any pointspreads or anything like that,” said Cotchery, who played with his injured right index finger against the Browns. “We are not playing that well this year, but we know what type of players we have in this locker room. We know we have good players, no matter what anyone else thinks. We are focusing on trying to get a win.”

The last time the Jets traveled up I-95 North to take on the Pats in a regular-season tilt, the visitors came away with perhaps the most memorable win of the 2006 season.

“We didn’t make any mistakes and didn’t beat ourselves,” Cotchery recalled. “We executed the way we were capable of executing. Anytime you do that and you don’t make mistakes, you give yourself a chance to win a game.”