The Jets celebrated as if Mike Nugent had kicked a game-winning field goal.

And while Nugent didn’t actually win a game, his 48-yard make at the end of today's session meant no meetings and no curfew for the players tonight. They jumped and danced, hooted and hollered, and exited the premises just as quickly as they could.

Head coach Eric Mangini was in a giving mood because he gave the guys a… More

Now is a good time to sit back, take a deep breath in the lull and refocus our thinking.

Refocusing backward, No. 4 as a Jet has been monstrously huge. As someone in the Cleveland pressbox said to me Thursday night, "We knew this would be big but we didn't know it would be this big."

Having been immersed in reporting and writing mode pretty much from 12:01 a.m. Thursday until driving home from J… More

Saturday's Green & White Practice lived on today, at least as far as some points Eric Mangini made to his players this morning before their return to two-a-day sessions.

"I explained a little more to the team about why we do it," the Jets head coach said at the top of his daily news conference. "We do it to give the new guys a sense of our gameday operation — warmup, pregame locker room, halftime… More

It was the Green & White version of "Thank you, sir, may I have another?"

WR Chansi Stuckey was running wide open at this morning's training camp practice on a slant over the middle during two-minute drills and Kellen Clemens found him.

But so did safety Kerry Rhodes.

One step after Stuckey gathered in the 18-yard pass, Rhodes sized him up, strode forward and stuck his shoulder in the middle of… More

Eric Mangini had several housekeeping items at the top of his daily news conference today as usual, but one of those notes was a very important and heartfelt one for the Jets head coach and his family.

Tonight in Hartford, Conn., Mangini's hometown, his family is hosting the Carmine Mangini Memorial Picnic at St. Elizabeth House. That's the transitional housing facility that Eric's late father di… More