The OTA practice ended not long ago. Because it is the first time reporters have gotten to talk with the Jets' vets in a while, today was big-name day. First the audio media got RB Thomas Jones for five minutes. Then the cameras and microphones shifted to Chad Pennington while the print media chatted with Jones. Then the print folks moved over to Chad.

My good friend Mark Cannizzaro of the New … More

It is May 31 in Hempstead, N.Y., and it is already high-Eighties hot and August bright with only a few puffs of clouds in the blue sky. A manifestation of global warming visiting the Northeast? Nah, just a perfect late-spring day for the New York Jets to conduct one of their Organized Team Activity practices.

It's a padless workout but the Jets are animated in voice and motion as veterans and roo… More

It's not training camp, but it's his full squad back on the field, working together again.

"Yeah, it's exciting to see everybody out there," head coach Eric Mangini said. "It's an exciting time of year."

Mangini has been presiding over the Jets' full-squad OTA sessions, which began with two practices last week and two more this week, but today is the first of four practices open to the media, so… More

When does the next NFL season start? Opinions differ about which milepost is most important. Some, of course, say it begins the day after the previous season has ended.

Then there's March 1 or thereabouts and the opening of the unrestricted free agency signing period. And the draft. And the rookie minicamp after the draft.

The Jets passed another one of those markers last week with the start of … More

Sports Illustrated's Peter King has recently given NFL Europa a few nicknames, one of them being the "NFL Spring League That No One In America Gives Two Hoots About."

Perhaps that's accurate for many fans, but the teams that have players overseas and the followers of those teams certainly have a few hoots in them — not to mention some whistles and horns, just like the noisemakers the NFLE fans i… More