Promising Exacta Ticket at the Top of This Draft
Nine-and-13. If that refers to a major league team’s record after 22 games, it’ll put you off the early pace of the division leader. If the subject is a horse owner’s Derby post positions or a race...
View ArticleSweet 16 (?) in the Draft? Mendelsohn Monitoring
A busy night is ahead for all of us NFL fanatics as the 2012 Draft comes barreling toward us in a few hours. For me, I’ll officially kick off the night with an appearance with my partner, Eric Allen,...
View ArticleDeVito: Defense’s Confidence Remains High
So you say the Patriots are averaging 507.5 yards and 33.8 points per game? And Tom Brady is on pace to throw for 6,212 yards, WR Wes Welker is on target for 160 catches, 2,464 yards and 20 TDs and TE...
View ArticleMason on Way In; S.Ellis Has Left the Building
Update, 2:35 p.m. ET There’s been a net movement of 26 years of NFL experience over the past 24 hours. Fifteen years of wideout wisdom has arrived in the form of free agent WR Derrick Mason (who...
View ArticleO-Line Makes the Grade for Its Patriots Game
As usual, the big fatties, the guys on the O side of the O/D trench can get lost in the deluge of championship game coverage. But not the Jets’ offensive linemen, who have drawn kudos from their head...
View ArticleAll 3 Levels of the D Were Up to the Challenge
The Jets’ defense brought the fight early and often to the Patriots offense Sunday in their stunning 28-21 AFC Divisional Round playoff triumph over their old AFC East rivals. “We stuck to our game...
View ArticleSanchez Will Start, Tomlinson Might Rest
Rex Ryan and his coaching staff are still figuring out who’s going to play and for how long against the Bills on Sunday. But the news out of the head coach’s daily news conference this afternoon was...
View ArticleDixon Shows Signs of Life in D-Line Rotation
Marcus Dixon says his favorite TV shows are CSI and Law and Order, and for a while he must have thought his career was headed for one of those crime shows since it was approaching room temperature. But...
View ArticleTeam Awards Announced as Jets Wait in CHI
There are worse places to stay and muse on what’s ahead for the Jets than Chicago, Chicago. But that’s where the Jets remain at the moment today. Due to conditions on the ground in the New Jersey/New...
View ArticleDistant Replay for Ellis and the Defense
Shaun Ellis and the Jets had seen this story play out before. They dominated the Dolphins offense at home for the second consecutive season, but somehow still came out as the losing team. “It’s like...
View ArticlePace Feeling Great … Breakthrough Near?
There is good news this week for the beleaguered Jets pass rush. Calvin Pace, who has racked up 2.5 sacks in his first six games back after breaking his right foot in the preseason, is feeling better...
View ArticleTexans Breakdown Courtesy of the Big Katt
In 11 seasons of play, Jets DE Shaun Ellis has missed five regular-season games. One of those came Sept. 13, 2009, when the Green & White got the Rex Ryan era off to a rousing start with a 24-7...
View ArticleRevis, Pace, Six Other Jets ‘Probable’ for Vikes
It was a beautiful Saturday around North Jersey and also a particularly healthful one around the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Of the nine players on the Jets’ injury report heading into Monday...
View ArticlePouha Has a Phrase for This: All Men Up
These are the times that try fans’ souls. I’m talking of course about the days between a tough opening night loss and the prep time for a tough foe ahead. It looks bleak. It feels crummy. That’s what I...
View ArticleRex & Ray Show: Two Intense Dudes Talkin’
Rex Ryan and Ray Lewis said hello to each other today through dueling news conferences. You can tell they’re both ready to go Monday night. It started out as a game-week love-in but had undertones of a...
View ArticleIn 11th Year, Ellis Ponders Brady/Pats Threat
Upon hearing that Patriots QB Tom Brady had professed both his hatred for the Jets and his refusal to support the Green & White’s appearance on “Hard Knocks,” the longest-tenured member of the Jets...
View ArticleFunky Numbers on the Way to a Yearbook
There are lots of things to do behind the scenes here at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center before squeezing in a week down at the Jersey Shore palace and then heading off to Cortland and beyond...
View ArticleJ.Taylor, D-Line, the Jets and the Draft
Having already made his play for Jason Taylor, Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum said today he expected a Taylor decision to be made “one way or the other” by draft weekend. If the NFL’s active sack leader comes...
View ArticleFaneca, Ellis Take a Bow in Miami Tonight
Two Jets graybeards are participating in tonight’s 40th annual NFL Pro Bowl at Sun Life Stadium (formerly Land Shark, formerly Dolphins, formerly Joe Robbie). And each came to this game through a...
View ArticleThe Coach Resumes a Pro Bowl Tradition
Pro Bowl practice sidelines aren’t quite the same star power attraction as Senior Bowl practice sidelines. There are some national TV types, such as Chris Mortensen and Deion Sanders, but there’s not...
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