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Focused on One Thing All Weekend
The Jets’ strange draft is over, and Mike Tannenbaum and Eric Mangini seem pleased and not too tired after the way it all unfolded — two first-day tradeups for top defensive players, two late...
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How to Strike a Fair Bargain
Several newyorkjets.com visitors have inquired about the draft trade value chart that many analysts invoke when weighing who got the better of a swap of picks. One version of the chart is available on...
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TJ and Raye, Perfect Together
For the second straight afternoon of the minicamp, running backs coach Jimmy Raye conducted a one-on-one clinic with Thomas Jones in the early stages of practice just outside of the far end zone....
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Preparing for Some Falconry
The good news was that with the starting time for the Jets’ final practice before their first preseason game moved back to 6:30 p.m. tonight, the weather wasn’t too bad and got better. And that was...
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Clemens the Talk of the Locker Room
Much of the Jets’ locker room conversation after the preseason-opening 31-16 win over the Falcons was about Kellen Clemens, who joined Rick Mirer (vs. Minnesota, 1999) and Ray Lucas (vs. Giants in...
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The Ball Keeps Sticking to Stuckey
It was back to work on Sunday afternoon at Hofstra and for Chansi Stuckey, that meant a continuation of his fine play thus far in training camp. During the afternoon’s first set of 11-on-11 drills, the...
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Jets-Eagles: Third Quarter
Marques Tuiasosopo is the third QB in for the Jets and his first pass is crisp, down the field, on the money — and dropped by WR Chris Davis on the deep in-cut. Another Ben Grahm punt. The Jets...
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Jets-Eagles: Fourth Quarter
And the Jets are on the board! Marques Tuiasosopo, flushed up in the pocket by the Eagles’ outside rush, tucks the ball and takes off. No slide here — Tui fights his way through two defenders burst...
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Coach on the Hot Topics of the Day
I’ll break again with my plan to blog once each day during the week, since head coach Eric Mangini opened up this morning’s news conference by addressing the two issues on the minds of Green &...
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Showing Their Depth at Wideout, Safety
My good friend Dan Leberfeld of Jets Confidential and "Press Coverage" on Sirius NFL Radio spoke of something that impressed him about the Green & White as we watched today’s one afternoon training...
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Rhodes Sticks, Stuckey Says Thanks
It was the Green & White version of "Thank you, sir, may I have another?" WR Chansi Stuckey was running wide open at this morning’s training camp practice on a slant over the middle during...
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Can Ainge-to-Wright Tie It Up? Hail, Yes
There were quite a few highlights at today’s second practice, and the crowd pleaser at the end of the session was the first successful Hail Mary completion of training camp. The twos and threes were...
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Airborne Stuckey’s Excellent Reception
Chansi Stuckey needed a year to show that his good hands and airborne body control from the ’07 training camp weren’t mirages. But he showed that Sunday against the Dolphins with his 22-yard touchdown...
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Coaching Favre? ‘No Pressure. It’s Fun.’
Brian Schottenheimer had his semiweekly sitdown with reporters this afternoon, and if anyone needed to hear it, the Jets’ offensive coordinator knows who his quarterback is, does allow and welcome his...
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LYONS: Can-Do Feel to the First Quarter
Players and coaches look at the long NFL season (17 weeks) as a game of four quarters, with the magical number of 10 wins coming from within that time to make it to the playoffs. Remember, sometimes 10...
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Spreading the Wealth on Both Sides of the Ball
The theme that Eric Mangini opened today’s news conference with was diversity. Not of the cultural kind but of the pass-catching and quarterback-sacking variety. "One thing I’ve been happy with and I...
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EA: Mixed Results, but Also Resilience
Seven games into the Jets’ season, you can either take the approach that the glass is half full or the glass is half empty. With a come-from-behind 28-24 win over the Chiefs, the Jets moved to 4-3 and...
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Some More Thoughts on the Rex Power Surge
Damien Woody was one of the Jets players who showed up at the Atlantic Health Training Center on Wednesday for the kickoff of the Rex Ryan era of Green & White football. Actually, the veteran...
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Exclusive Draft Chat for Mike T and Joey
The New York Jets experienced a first Tuesday morning when general manager Mike Tannenbaum and vice president of college scouting Joey Clinkscales participated in an exclusive conference call, not with...
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Which Players at Which Draft Day Parties
I know many of you have been clamoring for the 53-man rosters — correction, the four-man rosters — of players who are scheduled to appear at the Jets’ draft day parties on Saturday. And here are the...
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Emptying the Notebook: Sanchez’s Big Day
Fresh off the golf outing Wednesday and today’s media availability in the locker room, we’ve talked to a lot of Jets the past two days. While scouring my files and reviewing my transcripts, I thought...
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Catch of the Day Goes to Brad Smith
It was just one catch in the first practice of a June minicamp. In the scheme of things, it wasn’t that big a deal. It doesn’t count in the record books. It will never be one of ESPN’s Top Ten Plays....
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Stuck’s Summer Plan: Tips from Terance
Chansi Stuckey has summoned a former Jet wideout to help him get ready for training camp. “I’m going to go down to Atlanta to train with Terance Mathis,” Stuck told me after a recent minicamp practice....
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And Here Are EA’s Top 10 ‘Hot Topics’
Just days away from the commencement of the Jets’ 2009 training camp, newyorkjets.com is taking a look at the “25 Hot Topics” of summer before the hitting begins. Today the countdown concludes as we...
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Defense Reigns in First Practice of Camp
The defense definitely seemed ahead of the offense at this morning’s first practice of Jets training camp at SUNY Cortland. O-coordinator Brian Schottenheimer’s shouts and some interceptions and too...
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Big Day for Sanchez-to-Wright Connection
Today’s afternoon practice, as in the morning, was full-squad and it was on the SUNY Cortland grass field. It was a shortie — about an hour and 15 minutes — and it again featured the quarterbacks....
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Mark Makes the Most of His Opportunity
From an entertainment standpoint, this morning’s Jets practice at SUNY Cortland had it all. The pads were popping early as the Jets got to work on the run game and collision after collision ensued....
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THE REX BOX: Snappy Campers
If there is any coach in any sport who’s more positive about his players than Rex Ryan is about his Jets, we haven’t heard him yet. Rex had his Ryan takes on two players from today’s late-morning news...
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Late Practice: Hot, Short; Add 16 Yards
The heat was still on this afternoon when the Jets came out for their second full-squad practice of the day — and second of the day on the grass field behind Cortland Stadium — around 3:50 p.m. As WR...
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A Sizzling Summer of Talk on Jets Radio
As the sun set on Central New York on Thursday evening, the SUNY Cortland football stadium was absolutely empty. It’s an odd feeling when a place that you had associated with activity and noise for...
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Ryan Supports His Man on the Hot Corner
There’s no question that the Giants were taking aim at right corner Lito Sheppard early and often in Saturday night’s preseason matchup. There’s also no question that the cornerback and his coach are...
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Foes Pass Over Cotchery at Their Own Risk
The number 89 continues to pop up when the Jets need a play on offense. And while most football experts say Jerricho Cotchery isn’t a prototypical No. 1 wide receiver, he continues to play as well as...
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Mike T on Ins and Outs of the Edwards Trade
Mike Tannenbaum was on his way out to practice this morning, but he knew there would be a few questions the assembled reporters might want to ask him so he stopped by for an informal eight-minute news...
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Rex: Braylon ‘Will Fit Right In with Our Group’
At 1:51 p.m., a slim, tall gentleman in a nicely tailored charcoal suit and a tasteful shoulder bag walked through the players’ entrance at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center and toward the...
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