It was a weekend of homecomings for at least three Jets vets.

WR Jerricho Cotchery and S Kerry Rhodes returned to their Alabama roots — along with some of their Green & White friends — to give the kids of the Birmingham area some fun and games, a football camp, and some words of inspiration.

"I wanted to give kids in Birmingham opportunities I didn't have," Cotchery told the Birmingham News.… More

On this day before Christmas, Jets head coach Eric Mangini held a short teleconference with reporters. The QB topic is always a hot one and Mangini was asked if it was important for the Jets to get another look at Kellen Clemens when the Jets host the Chiefs in their regular-season finale.

“You’d like to see him be able to play if he can play,” Mangini said of his second-year passer. “But the imp… More

This was another one of those games for Jerricho Cotchery — in several senses of the phrase.

Cotchery had one of those fine statistical receiving lines that he is becoming known for: eight catches, 152 yards and the Jets' only touchdown against the Titans today. And that led to another fine — no, make that grand — distinction. Cotchery cleared 1,000 receiving yards for the first time in his car… More

The Jets do something that looks familiar. They're facing fourth-and-inches at their 42 on the second half's opening drive. They show that they're going for it. Then Chad Pennington gives the signal and from a tight formation, they transform to five wides, empty backfield. Then Pennington goes under center and waits and waits. Oh, it's the old pull-'em-offsides trick that usually doesn't work.

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