08/08 — The good news was that with the starting time for the Jets' final practice before their first preseason game moved back to 6:30 p.m. tonight, the weather wasn't too bad and got better. And that was good for the fans, more of whom showed up for this workout than made it to the morning session battling the aftereffects of the downpour.

But this was a decidedly low-key practice, much of which was spent on having the offense and defense work against the Jets' "look" teams in preparation to play the Falcons on Friday night at the Meadowlands.

There weren't a lot of crowd-pleasing plays. One early in practice was a Kellen Clemens deep ball that found Chansi Stuckey near the end zone, with the seventh-round rookie WR taking it the rest of the way for the "score."

The special teams period arrived and Nooge again came up huge. Mike Nugent hit eight straight field goal tries, all from at least 40 yards out (against a half-speed kick block team). After No. 8, holder Ben Graham stuck out his right hand, which Nugent gave an audible slap, and slapped his kicker on his helmet with his left hand, also audibly.

There was a Tuiasosopo at linebacker for a while, but it wasn't Zach, recently released by Philadelphia. It was Marques, doing double duty during offensive drills.

Tui the QB can throw a beautiful ball, and he did a few times in scout team work. On one he hit Alvin Banks downfield against Drew Coleman. But shortly after, Tuiasosopo dropped back, looked, looked, then threw a tight spiral — right to safety James Ihedigbo for the INT.

I'm going to come back tomorrow with a blog to recognize newyorkjets.com fans who have been reading the Radar for a while. Then Friday we'll set our game blog apparatus in motion.