Thomas Jones has some tremendous concentration.

You could see it and hear it as he was asked multiple times during recent OTAs and the full-squad minicamp about the frustrations of last season, the possibility before the draft of the Jets taking Darren McFadden, the expectations for the coming season.

"I'm here only to focus on what I have to do," Jones would say, calmly, evenly.

And you can se… More

Following the 2007 regular season, 36-year-old Tony Richardson didn’t sound like a man who was heading for a change of address.

"I don't want to move at this point in my career. I had a good meeting with the [Vikings] owners,” Richardson told ESPN last month. “I've got some gas left in the wheel and want to keep playing. I feel like I'm 25.''

The 13-year vet had just been selected to hi… More

Some writers complain about Super Bowl Media Days, but as Laveranues Coles might say, "It is what it is." You just have to laugh at some of the things that take place on the floor of the stadium five days before the NFL crowns each year's champion.

Today's event was marked for better or worse by two women from Mexico's TV Azteca who appeared to be ready to marry any football player on the floor o… More

One thing that struck me during the season was how similar several key aspects of Thomas Jones' game were to those of Curtis Martin when he first arrived as the Jets' featured back for the 1998 season.

Not everything is a perfect match, of course. Their running styles differ, as do their personalities. But as I complete entering data for Jones' season in areas such as yards per carry, fumbles, t… More

The Jets win the OT coin toss, much to the approval of Brad Kassell, who lets out a Texas-style "Awwright!" over ref Larry Nemmers' mike. Soon Leon Washington squirms to the Jets 30 and OT is under way.

Thomas Jones bursts off right guard for 9 yards, then Kellen Clemens keeps and the Jets' first — and, they hope, the only — series of the fifth period continues. Then a nice play-fake and a 13-yar… More