Here are a few more points that GM Mike Tannenbaum made during his Friday news conference at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. One question had to do with the free agency/draft timeline and how that affects a team's decisions. Mike T referred to a former Jets GM and the 2007 draft to explain the process.

"We talk about it all the time in the office. Terry Bradway and I have had a lot of philosophi… More

Tom Petty was right. (Tom Petty's always right.) The waiting is the hardest part.

I've been a part of these head-coaching waits when I was on the outside looking in (Little Anthony was right, too) as a Jets beatwriter from 1994-2006. But as a beatwriter, to be more accurate, the waiting wasn't the only hard part.

The other equally difficult element of an NFL head-coaching search is going to slee… More

Porcelain has played a central role in a couple of Green & White anecdotes this decade.

Eight years ago, Al Groh said the enormity of becoming head coach of the Jets didn't hit him until he read all about it on a sports section tacked to the wall over a restaurant facility. Then this afternoon general manager Mike Tannenbaum had his own bathroom story about the Jets' extremely successful second-r… More

The signing of long-time Kansas City Chiefs DE Eric Hicks on Tuesday is another case of adding a player with Core Jet Values to the mix along the defensive front.

Hicks turns 31 next month, and it would be easy to say the Chiefs think he's done. Last season was his first since his rookie season of 1998 in K.C. in which he had no starts and no sacks. With the end play of Jared Allen and Tamba Hali… More