“Reading the ball off of the foot is just like reading the ball off of the bat.”

That’s how Jim Leonhard views punt returning.

“I give a lot of credit to growing up playing baseball,” Leonhard said from the Jets locker room on Friday. “You develop that hand/eye coordination and you get comfortable catching the ball on the run during baseball. That’s helped my returning skills.”

Jason Trusnik didn't have a high-profile role Sunday at Houston. But he still was very much a part of delivering the Jets' new mission statement.

"We spent all week, all the coaches and all the players, on coming out and basically being physical and aggressive, showing who we are, playing like a Jet," Trusnik told me Friday. "By watching film and getting with Coach Westhoff and the other special … More

It's been easy being green — not just as a Jet but as Howard Green — the first two weeks of this season.

The night before the Jets' season opener against the Texans, Green found out he was going to be one of Rex Ryan's four game captains in Ryan's first game as an NFL head coach.

"That was maybe my second time being a captain," Green told me today in the locker room at the Atlantic Health Je… More

Today the Jets basked in the glow of their successful season premiere in Houston, while remaining quite aware of the work on the first sequel ahead on Sunday.

The light day of work at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center included a viewing of the 24-7 win at Houston that for Darrelle Revis was like a trip to the local DodecaPlex to see a late summer blockbuster.

"It was like watching a new m… More

Some games in Jets history are just treasure troves.

By that I mean that certain games generate an avalanche in charts and facts of statistical and historical significance. Jets-Houston 2009 was one of those games.

I showed head coach Rex Ryan some of the distinctions below regarding the number the Jets did on the Texans on Sunday and he beamed.

"We'll sign up for that," he said.

Here is a rev… More