Bart Oates, the longtime Giants center and now a lawyer and real estate adviser for the Jets, didn't invent the phrase, but he's the first athlete I remember using it, back when I first covered that other team in the mid-Eighties.

"You can't eat the elephant all at once."

Of course, it's just another way to say what Jets head coach Eric Mangini says every time someone asks him about the prognosi… More