07/29 — You wouldn't confuse the first five days of Jets training camp with a mixed martial arts competition. Hard-hitting? Yes, but only to a point. As running backs hit the holes, for instance, you would hear the bellows from the assistant coaches: "STAY UP!"

But that changed this morning when the Green & White shifted to goal line mode.

Three quarterbacks combined to run seven plays from the 5-yard line, and four touchdowns were produced, three on running plays.

Chad Pennington took the ball first and produced two scores on two plays: a pass to TE Jason Pociask and a handoff up the middle to Thomas Jones. No. 20 was tackled by NT Kris Jenkins and other interior defenders — but not until he reached the line and the official's hands went up.

Kellen Clemens then got two plays. The first was a handoff to Jones, slanting to his left. He was smothered by Jenkins and OLB Calvin Pace. Then Clemens, under pressure from LB Marques Murrell, threw too high for TE Bubba Franks in the end zone.

Next came Brett Ratliff, who also threw past Franks off the line incomplete. But then came a handoff to Jesse Chatman, who, like TJ on the second play of the series, burrowed into the line. He also got the TD call, but the defense didn't approve, if their angry words were any indication.

Finally, Pennington came back and handed off to Jones, who went in for six one more time.

There was more to practice than just the goal line work. Clemens hit a couple of nice passes, one to rookie TE Dustin Keller near the line, another after a stumbling scramble that he short-armed to Pociask for the TD.

Pennington also had some strong throws. A couple went to Laveranues Coles: a short "slingshot" for a score, then a nice one-handed catch by a crossing Coles with Drew Coleman trailing.

Franks also made a fine one-handed catch in the back of the end zone from Pennington before crashing into the padding at the base of the camera platform, but Franks was ruled out of bounds.

Murrell had a nice spin move to the inside against Jacob Bender, playing at LT for D'Brickashaw Ferguson, who was watching from the sideline wearing T-shirt, shorts and a new hat (tag hanging off the back). Brick got the day off for winning the off-season strength award, which he used for this practice.

Several laps were run, by Brandon Moore, Nate Garner, Calvin Pace, Damien Woody and Justin Miller, who got his for interference on Jerricho Cotchery.

Rookie CB Dwight Lowery also had several standout plays, which I'll get into with my Lowery feature later this afternoon. Eric Allen is also writing on Alan Faneca. And early tomorrow I'll have a story on Brett the Jet. Ratliff, of course. A short blog on Coach Mangini will follow this report.