Randy's Radar

Randy's Radar with Eric Allen and featured guest bloggers

NewYorkJets.com Editor-in-Chief Randy Lange goes behind the scenes and behind the stats to track the latest news about your favorite team.

Tue, October 7, 2008 - 8:58am EDT

Trump and the Art of the (Auction) Deal

File Under: auction, New Jets Stadium, Donald Trump, The Donald, Coaches Club seats

To paraphrase a state slogan from a few years back: The Jets and The Donald — perfect together.

Donald Trump, New York's real estate and reality TV mogul, fresh off of last month's appearance at the Jets' Kickoff Luncheon, has contributed his big-city celebrity and understated humor to the Green & White's latest venture, the auction of Coaches Club seats for the New Jets Stadium in 2010.

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Mon, October 6, 2008 - 1:04pm EDT

Justin Miller Close to Being "Back in the Mix'

File Under: mangini, Justin Miller, Eric Smith, Jesse Chatman

The Jets are back from the bye, and at the moment, they don't have any roster transactions to make.

RB Jesse Chatman's roster exemption following his exemption has expired and he's now on the roster. But S Eric Smith's appeal of his suspension hadn't been cleared up as head coach Eric Mangini's news conference this morning

"Nothing's been finalized with this. It still has to go through the appe… More

Sun, October 5, 2008 - 8:22pm EDT

EA: Another Wild Week in the AFC East

File Under: Jets, Eric Mangini, Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Marvin Lewis, Cincinnati Bengals, Ken Whisenhunt, Cris Collinsworth

As this Jets bye weekend officially comes to a close this evening, the Cincinnati Bengals did Eric Mangini a favor today. When the third-year head coach opens up his Monday morning meeting tomorrow, he doesn’t have to talk about how dangerous the Bengals are because his players will already know for themselves.

The Bengals, now 0-5, just went into Dallas and scared the living daylights out of t… More

Wed, October 1, 2008 - 2:10pm EDT

De la Hoya May Spar with the Jets Today

File Under: Allen, Eric Mangini, Teddy Atlas, Brett Favre, Oscar de la Hoya

Today is getaway day for the Jets. It's their last practice of the bye week before four days away from the Atlantic Health Training Center, so you'd want to stand far enough to the side that you don't get any windburn from the players as they leave the facility.

But head coach Eric Mangini has a way of keeping his players around a little longer after today's practice ends in about a half-hour. A … More

Tue, September 30, 2008 - 1:06pm EDT

Bye Week Goals: Improve, Recharge

File Under: Smith, Darrelle Revis, Eric Mangini, Mike Nugent, David Clowney, bye week, Brett Favre, Dustin Keller

Eric Mangini revealed the Jets' bye week practice schedule, which will have the players practicing today and Wednesday, then taking off until Monday.

"Today we'll work on first and second down, tomorrow will be more of a third-down emphasis," the coach said at today's morning news conference. "Then the guys get a break and come back Monday, when there'll be a red area/goal line emphasis."

Mangin… More