Crosstraining means one thing to the weekend athlete, quite another to a 300-pound trenchman like Mike DeVito.

“I try to crosstrain so I know all three spots,” DeVito told me today about working at defensive end and at the 1- and 3-technique tackle spots in the Jets’ new defense. “I probably haven’t taken as many reps at nose as I have in the past couple of days, but I’ve been crosstraining so th… More

The central New York hills are not as verdant this morning, shrouded in mist, and a sky in shades of mottled gray is rolling by overhead.

What a great day to start Jets Training Camp ’09.

The weather will no doubt keep some fans of the Green & White away, but despite this morning’s light rain, it’s full speed ahead for head coach Rex Ryan and his team to begin stretching on the Cortland Stadiu… More

Tennessee RB Chris Brown gets the first two carries of the new period. On the second, he plows off his right guard as tackle David Stewart blows rookie DE Mike DeVito out of the hole and lands with the ball firmly across the goal line.

Titans 7, Jets 0

Now what do the Jets have to answer with. Perhaps with newly minted Curtis Martin MVP Leon Washington on the ensuing kickoff? No, Tennessee has N… More

Every year the players on each NFL team vote for one among them as their Ed Block Courage Award winner. Some years, on some teams, there's no real competition.

On this year's Jets, Laveranues Coles was the easy choice.

"I've tried to fight through everything I pretty much can fight through," said Coles, who missed one game with a concussion and has played the last two on an extremely painful ank… More

Darian Barnes wasn't nicknamed "Full-Tilt" with the Dolphins for nothing. The hard-hitting fullback expressed his remorse while sitting in front of his locker today for taking Wednesday's tackling drill to such an extreme that rookie DE Mike DeVito came out of it with an injured shoulder.

"I'm sorry that happened," Barnes said. "These are my teammates. I love these guys. I just lost sight of the … More