New York Jets

Mark makes some interesting points, although to be clear, you do get ownership of your Jets PSL and, like the Giants’, those PSLs can be sold as well. Bottom line: how many of you thought there’d be any seats, let alone 27,000, without PSLs in the new place? The Jets did at least dare to be diffe...

Mangini announced OL Thaddeus Coleman, DB Ron Girault, RB Rodney Kinlaw and RB Musa Smith were released this morning. The roster gets cut to 53 on Saturday, Aug. 30. Just one more cut-down day to survive, Jehuu Caulcrick fans. Oh, and the Jets press conference announcing the specifics of thei...

I know. These practice reports don’t read the way they used to. I’ll have to talk to Eric Mangini allowing me to document these regular season practices as thoroughly as those in training camp. I’m sure we can work something out. Mangini commented on the lack of running game thus far in the prese...

Brett Favre, while talking with reporters earlier, said, while he hasn't made his pitch yet to Eric Mangini to play Thursday night in Philly, he anticipates what the answer will be. I'm not opposed to Mike coming back in some capacity," Mangini said.

Expect the topic of the day - probably the next two days - to be whether Brett Favre will play Thursday. There are good arguments to be made why he should play and good arguments to be made for why he shouldn't. Right now I lean toward not playing him because I'm not sure one series is going to accel...

But let’s go back to the penalties. Mangini certainly did, repeatedly, and he was steamed about them to say the least. His team was penalized 12 times, 10 times – 10! – on offensive plays. False starts were an issue, though none, ironically, by Damien Woody, training camp’s poster boy for earl...

On offense, who will emerge as the main receiving threat behind Laveranues Coles and Jerricho Cotchery? Brad Smith, Chansi Stuckey, David Clowney? All three have the ability. Defensively, will rookie linebacker Vernon Gholston begin to emerge as the top playmaker the Jets think he can...

Some more carries for Thomas Jones. Eric Mangini said Jones has gotten plenty of reps in training camp, which is true as Jones clearly is the team's No. 1 back. He's looked it, too, in camp, but as Favre has said, there's no substitute for game experience. Jones doesn't need 15 carries tomorrow n...

First and foremost, he was a Hall of Fame player, that’s the number one thing, great career, part of some great Oakland teams, but the big thing for people that really don’t know is, for a negotiator, he was really tough as far as really getting the players what they wanted out of the deal and a...

A couple of training camp-enders, courtesy of the great Randy Lange at newyorkjets.com: Mangini: “I don’t get out much. I talk to Mike (Tannenbaum) and a few other people. How do you guys feel?” Mangini: “You’re single, though, right?” Mangini: “You might have to get out a little more.”

Oh, wait. I should tell you your last chance to see Favre in person - and the final open practice ever at Hofstra for that matter - is Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Camp breaks after that. Too late to make plans? Well, that's too bad. The Jets sent out a release at 11:49 p.m. Tuesday night making the announceme...

Kellen Clemens, in his two-minute opportunity, had an interception by Dwight Lowery wiped out by penalty. Clemens threw several good passes to Chris Baker in moving the offense to the 35 but Nugent was wide right on a 53-yarder that would have tied it. No, for those who have asked, there wasn...

All right, typical one-practice schedule today: Eric Mangini in the press room at 12:45 p.m. followed by practice at 1:30. Player interviews - including Favre - after practice. Besides Favre, things to follow today include which receiver benefits in terms of reps with Clowney out - probabl...

Like anyone in this business should, I look up to and respect King immensely. But he's way off base here, as are the other media folks who have levied some criticism at fans for this issue. Other than Green Bay, there aren't many cities that have packed houses for preseason games. I'm from Cleve...

Anyway, Glauber hit on several interesting things in his segment, one of which I’m writing about in tomorrow’s paper: the connection seemingly already established between Brett Favre and tight end Dustin Keller, which goes along well with the Favre/Cotchery one.

What wasn't to like about Favre? He went 5-for-6 for 48 yards and Dustin Keller raved about the speed with which that four-yard touchdown pass arrived. The throw to Jerricho Cotchery on the run for 19 yards three plays before that was a beauty. Obviously, you don't get carried away about 5-fo...

Well, so far, so good for the Brett Favre era in New York. He went 5-for-6 with a touchdown and looked comfortable not just with his receivers, but with the offense as a whole. The next step comes in one week, as the Jets take the field against the defending Super Bowl champion Giants at the Meado...

If you can't wait to get Jets questions in, you can give Bob Glauber a try this afternoon at 3 as our NFL columnist will be doing a live chat. Looking at his blog this morning, I see a totally unnecessary picture of Jessica Simpson. What a shameless panderer (Glauber, not Simpson). At least this b...

So to the morning practice, which as several posters have already noted (thanks again, Jason, for the YouTube link), featured the site of Brett Favre getting treated like everyone else – put the ball on the ground, run a lap. During an early 11-on-11 drill Favre fumbled the center exchange...

Also today, Chad Pennington had his first public comments about getting released yesterday. Reflecting on his experience in New York: I’ve enjoyed my time in New York. I think my family enjoyed enjoyed New York. I enjoyed Long Island and the fans. It was a great opportunity and blessing to hav...

Uh oh, La Monica here, and I just won a hostile takeover of E-Bola's blog. But I will relinquish control just as soon as I paste in some code that will let a video display underneath this amazing paragraph of text that lets you we asked fans around Long Island for their thoughts on the Jets acqui...

Kellen Clemens- OK so he's sure to be the back-up now, but let's face it, Favre will likely not be a part of the team's long-term plans. It will be telling to see how Clemens handles himself in this situation and whether he'll be able to rebound from a training camp where he struggled a bit again...

So back to Thursday and what we know, which isn't much. Chad Pennington said a few minutes ago after practice that he expects to be informed of who starts the night before the game. Mike Nugent ended the 1 hour 53 minute practice by hitting all seven of his field goal tries.

The Jets and A-1 First Class-Viking Moving and Storage are hosting a food drive Saturday that will benefit The INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network). There should be a nice crowd Saturday and fans are asked to bring non-perishable food items to donate to a worthy cause that operates 19 soup k...

For the first time this training camp, Eric Mangini was disgusted with his team after a practice and ripped into them afterward. Well, what amounts to a rip job by Mangini. While his tone just now was the same as usual – reserved – his words were strong. And his practice was the longest yet of camp...

Just before the Nugent field goal, a pair of draftees went at it on a timing throw by Pennington from the 21. Pennington put it in the left corner of the end zone where the 5-11 Dwight Lowery got good inside position on the 6-4 Marcus Henry and knocked the ball away. Lowery’s has been beat at camp b...

In one sequence, lining up on the right as the nickel rusher, Gholston left Jacob Bender flat-footed in getting to Chad Pennington for a sack (non-contact). Still thinking about that on second down, Bender false-started – earning a lap – and his replacement, seventh-round pick Nate Garn...

Pennington nearly had his first interception of training camp, throwing a short dumpoff pass over the middle that Shaun Ellis (quietly having a nice start to camp) read, tipped and nearly picked off. Pennington also nearly had another ball picked by Eric Barton (Mr. Turnover with an inter...

Newsday's Tom Rock, who covered the Jets the last two seasons and took over the Giants beat in mid-April - and who has been on vacation I'm pretty sure since just after the draft - spent most of yesterday chasing the Shockey story. Early this morning he posted on his blog an item about the Jets/...

With the Giants announcing the specific facts, figures and dates regarding their Personal Screw Licenses, the Jets confirmed what just about everyone anticipated. Newsday's Neil Best asked Giants co-owner John Mara on a conference call earlier this afternoon if he could envision the...

We’re talking about the Jets beat reporters from the various media organizations in New York and New Jersey that cover the team on a regular basis, invited to Weeb Ewbank Hall for a day entitled – on the Evite – “Learn defense with Eric Mangini.”

Smith, along with the Giants Justin Tuck and some 15 RCN volunteers, were hosting a sports camp – where they ran and participated in football drills and talked about the importance of physical fitness – put on by the Southern Queens Park Association, a partner agency of the United Way of Ne...

Center Nick Mangold is among the veterans still on Long Island. Many have departed for what amounts to a brief summer vacation before training camp starts in late July, but, “I heard ‘golf’ and I was like, ‘sign me up,’” Mangold said. “I heard golf and figured I’d come running.”

So that’s what we, the New York Jets, will do, regardless of the Giants’ plans, which though not yet announced, are to sock their fans with PSLs at to-be-determined prices. I will let the Giants turn themselves into all sorts of verbal pretzels in attempting to dress the PSL porker up into so...

Anyway, I saw and met a few fathers yesterday (Saturday) who were watching their sons and daughters - more than 200 overall - participate in the Generation Jets Club Clinic over at Hofstra. A good portion of the Jets rookie class served as instructors at the various stations set up on the Jet...

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3. The day ended with a no-huddle drill in which Pennington and Brett Ratliff each faced a 28-20 deficit on the scoreboard with one timeout, first-and-10 on their own 18-yard line and 1:44 left. (Pennington sat out the morning’s no-huddle while Clemens got a shot, so this was part of the equa...

1. As I mentioned in the earlier post about the morning practice when the Jets worked mostly on their first and second-down packages, in the afternoon, the Jets worked on third downs and, today anyway, that meant a lot of Pennington and Clemens throwing plenty of slants and underneath stuf...

Now, back to today’s New York Jets Fifth Annual Golf Classic, which contained some odd sights and sounds, at the Meadow Brook Club. First, however, there was one thing I forgot to tell Mike Tannenbaum, who is a golf nut. By moving from Long Island to New Jersey, the Jets are significantly down...

3. Clemens and Chad Pennington have been alternating working with the first team early in the quarterback competition, but this will be the first time we’ll get to see the QBs working back-to-back days, as opposed to seven days apart. Clemens had an impressive day throwing the deep ball las...

Also, as I previously mentioned in the comments section of that earlier post, the Jets begin OTAs this week. We’ll have reports on Thursday, when the media is given player access, from Hofstra. Ok, Rich, Mike, Darrell, Cliff, Big A, Jay, et al., have at it again. And to Dknyj…Baker-Gate? Quali...

Coming tomorrow - or tonight on line - a story on Danny Woodhead, the NCAA's all-time rushing leader whom the Jets signed as a rookie free agent Sunday night. He'll be at Hofstra this weekend - along with this year's draft class and other rookie free agents and the like - for the Jets rookie min...

“I think we did a lot of positive things in the draft,” Mangini said. “I like the things we’ve done defensively, I like the things we’ve done defensively, the things that we’ve done offensively. The thoroughness of the process, all the work that Joey (Clinkscales), Terry (Bradway) and Mike...

That's not a criticism. No team in league history, I don’t think, has come out nine days before the draft and said, “We’re taking this guy!” The only irritating thing Tannenbaum does is use the word “process” too much, but so does Eric Mangini. You say potato, they say process.

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So far, though, that's not in the Jets' thinking. I spoke with Shane's agent, Ken Zuckerman, who said he hasn't heard from the Jets about the former Martone Award winner who was recently named to as a "Best of the Rest" in Newsday's Elite 11 list of the top high school football players on Long I...

First the Chargers, since they had the most mystery this week. Rivers, LT and Gates are all active. Those not playing are: QB Charlie Whitehurst, K Dave Rayner, CB Cletis Gordon, CB Paul Oliver, LB Anthony Waters, WR Malcolm Floyd, TE Scott Chandler and DT Brandon McKinney.

Despite reports elsewhere, Kellen Clemens is still the Jets backup quarterback and every indication is he will start Thursday’s game in Philadelphia. He did say, “if all goes well,” it will be the last time we see him in a game this year. Clemens has been, and continues to be, a good sport. Clas...