The passing drills are under way. No. 78 steps up to the line of scrimmage, fires off for the end zone, takes a hard left at the end line and has his arms outstretched, ready, looking all the while like a receiving tight end.

And the pass goes through his hands.

On the sidelines, No. 77 is all over it. “C’mon!” Kris Jenkins yells with a laugh. “Focus, man!”

“That was just Kris being K… More

Robert Turner, who on Sunday showed us a versatile skill set, can add modeling to the list after Monday night’s Saks Fifth Avenue Suit Up event at the Short Hills Mall in Short Hills, N.J.

Turner and 15 other Jets were on hand, strutting their stuff for a packed house and a good cause, with proceeds going to the New York Jets Foundation.

While players mostly had their outfits chosen for them, … More

Today's news conference with Eric Mangini provided a lot of news, big and small.

On the injury front, Mangini played it down the middle, as you'd expect, about the prognoses for TEs Chris Baker and Bubba Franks, both with hip injuries, and ILB David Harris, with a groin injury.

"That whole group of guys, we're going to see where they are through the course of the week," the head coach said this … More

The Jets locker room recently has taken on the feel of a truck stop, with wiry, muscular men coming and going every week. This can be a good thing if the bodies coming in are better than the bodies going out. As Mike Tannenbaum and Eric Mangini said when they first arrived here early in 2006, they'll be looking under every rock all year long to find their kind of players, and the looking continues… 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