Nick Folk has always had a great perspective on the business side of the NFL. He's journeyed to a few teams over the years, more than some, fewer than others. But even though the Jets were one of those teams for whom he kicked well, yet made him a salary-cap cut early in 2017, he's pleased to be back with his green and white fam.

"I think that's one thing that the NFL is, it's just kind of one big family," Folk said after his second practice since re-signing with the Jets earlier this week. "There's only a handful of guys that play for one team throughout their career. And so it's good to see these familiar faces and get back into the rhythm with that. And hopefully some of this just lasts for a lifetime."

Folk, at 40 and entering his 18th pro season (matching his new uniform number, since his old No. 2 is worn by Tyrod Taylor), has already lasted a few NFL life cycles. You wouldn't think he'd see that many familiar faces around 1 Jets Drive since his seven-season tenure from 2010-16. But for instance, rookie TE Mason Taylor, now a big dude, was a little dude when Folk was in upstate New York along with Mason and dad Jason Taylor and the Jets for their 2010 training camp away from home.

"I remember him running around in Cortland when he was little," Folk said. "I just asked him today if he remembers living in New York and he said a little bit. So it's a crazy world that we're in right now, but fun to be around. I mean, obviously he's a great player in his family, a great lineage of players."

Someone else Folk is familiar with is a former teammate and now his boss on the Jets, first-year head coach Aaron Glenn.

"My rookie year, I played with AG. We were on the Cowboys together for the offseason," Folk said, reminiscing back to 2007. "So I played with him and with Mason Taylor's dad and uncle [Zach Thomas, a Cowboy in '08]. I mean, kind of fun."

What's also been fun to watch is how Folk has famously aged as well as a bottle of Château Latour Bourdeaux. When he left the Jets, his 82.2% field goal accuracy was and remains the best among qualifying kickers in franchise history. All he did since was top that in the past five seasons (the first three with New England, the last two with Tennessee). He converted 92.3% of all his field goal tries and 85.0% of all his kicks of 40-plus yards, making him the most accurate in both categories among the 23 NFL kickers with at least 100 attempts in that span.

He's lost a little time due to injuries — including the final eight games of the Jets' 2015 season with a right quadriceps injury — but on the other hand, he's kicked in 242 regular-season games, plus six more in the playoffs. Three of those were with the Jets in '10, and in one of them he struck one of his most famous kicks with 0:00 to play to lift the Jets past the Colts, 17-16, at Indianapolis in the AFC Wild Card Round.

It's for those kinds of kicks and these kinds of family reunions that Folk has always trained as if he plans to kick forever, or at least well into the season ahead. After the Titans released him, he was ready when the Jets called.

"Yeah, I definitely wanted to play," he said. "I trained all offseason like I was going to play, trained all offseason to get ready for Week 1. That's my goal every year, to be 100% Week 1, kind of build through training camp. So yeah, I was wanting to play and kept working towards it.

"I'm excited to play for, I guess I'd say the Green & Black now? The Green & White?" he said in a riff on the Jets' variety of uniform looks since he departed. "I'm excited to be back in. It's a great organization, I had a great seven years here and hopefully I can make it a great eighth and maybe longer."

Longer? That may depend not only on how he kicks this season but on another Folk family, of the nuclear variety.

"There's nothing better than kicking field goals on Sunday or Monday or whatever day you play," he said. "I enjoy it and I want to do it until I can't compete at the highest level ... and/or my wife and kids say it's time to come home.

"So they're like, 'Keep playing.' All right, I'll keep playing. So that's kind of where we're at."