Justin Miller was in a playful mood — he rarely isn't — after Thursday's OTA practice, when he was surrounded by more reporters than since his Game 2 injury last September.

I asked him if one play he was in on that day, the end zone pass from Chad Pennington that Laveranues Coles couldn't hold, was kind of a significant play, indicative of his first reps with the Jets in a long time.

"Every … More

I believe it was my good friend Frank Litsky of The New York Times who once remarked, back in the Eighties at a Giants-Bengals game that Cincinnati looked like a city designed during an architects' competition. And sitting in the pressbox for the first time at Paul Brown Stadium, I can second that observation.

The stadium itself has futuristic awnings perched over its green seats (perhaps suggest… More

The password is "frustration."

"It's just frustrating," LB Jonathan Vilma, sitting in front of his Meadowlands locker today and shaking his head after the Jets' fall-from-ahead 35-24 road loss to the Giants. "We've got to find a way to climb back out of it."

Cornerback Andre Dyson, who missed a costly tackle on Plaxico Burress, agreed: "It's frustrating. You make good plays and make bad plays, a… More

Chad Pennington again threw a bad pass after throwing a number of excellent throws. After throwing a rope over the middle to Laveranues Coles for 15 yards on third-and-13, Pennington tries to find Jerricho Cotchery heading toward the end zone. But the throw is off target. Cotchery doesn't have a chance to catch it or to break it up. Instead, rookie CB Aaron Ross snags it for the pick and tries to … More

Opening Day. 'Nuff said.

All right, there's a lot more to be said, but Sept. 9 is here, the Jets and Patriots are in the Meadowlands, and the first leg of the Green & White's next marathon is about to begin.

The early notes from the stadium include a shocker. The inactives for both teams have just been announced, and for the Jets, Jacob Bender is inactive. So the sixth-round rookie from Nicholls… More