One theme that arose at head coach Eric Mangini's daily news conference this morning was that of Mike Westhoff and Internet rumors that had the longtime special teams guru returning to the Jets.

"Mike didn't leave because of anything in terms of him not being happy with the organization or me not being happy with Mike," Mangini said. "Mike's a great coach. I really like Mike a lot. He was in a re… More

One of the treats of watching every snap of every practice of your favorite NFL team is observing the unheralded or unknown players step up and make play after play.

One of those Jets in today's second practice of camp was WR Paul Raymond, the small, fast undrafted free agent out of Brown.

In the morning Raymond nicely gathered in a deep ball from Brett Ratliff during position drills. And he pic… More

And that brings me to the last of my AFC East Trends blogs, the Jets on the uptick. Despite the disappointments of last season, there are a number of positive areas to revisit on the eve of the 2008 training camp: the production of players such as Jerricho Cotchery, Kerry Rhodes, David Harris and Mike Nugent and the fact that the Jets remain the NFL's least-penalized team since, oh, about 1990.

B… More

As we forge ahead into the off-season, I'll be revisiting some areas from 2007 as I complete one spreadsheet or database after another on the season just finished. Today the topic is penalties.

In short, head coach Eric Mangini's unflagging efforts to reduce flags against his team paid dividends again. The Jets had 63 penalties marked off against them for 486 yards, both figures the second-lowest… More

Normally in this spot I try to bring together some main theme of what the players are talking about in the Jets' postgame locker room. And to be sure, there was a consensus that the Jets were proud of each other for coming out of the game with the 13-10 overtime win over the Chiefs today, and how important it was for them to end this forlorn season with a victory.

But all of that gets superseded … More