By Kimberley A. Martin
Business is business. But brotherhood is forever.
That’s why Eric Decker and the Broncos’ Demaryius Thomas haven’t given up hope of playing together again.
“We always joke that we’ll partner up again on the same team,” Decker, the Jets’ No. 1 receiver, told Newsday.
And if all goes according to his plan, Thomas — who is scheduled to become a free agent in 2015 — will join him with the Jets.
“I’m always trying to recruit him here,” Decker said, smiling.
As he sat in an empty fieldhouse at the Jets’ practice facility Thursday afternoon, Decker opened up about the bond he shares with Thomas, a former Broncos teammate who he said quickly became his “brother.”
Long before Decker ditched burnt orange for Jets green, he and Thomas, 26, had made a pact to become the biggest receiving tandem in Denver since Super Bowl champions Rod Smith and Ed McCaffrey. And before Decker, 27, became a husband to country-pop star Jessie James Decker in 2013 and a doting father to 7-month-old Vivianne Rose, he and Thomas were inseparable.
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