08/23 — The suspense was ended very quickly at the top of the second half when, after Ahmad Carroll returned the kickoff for the Jets, No. 11, not No. 4, jogged onto the field to take the snaps from center.

And Kellen Clemens, replacing Brett Favre at QB, did pretty well after a flurry of penalty flags beset the Jets.

Clemens, in fact, hit eight of his 11 passes during his one drive of the night for 80 yards. And that drive, which didn't get started until the Jets started moving forward on first-and-25 from their 7, moved to the Giants 6 before it stalled and Mike Nugent came on to convert from 24 yards out and give the Jets the first points of the night and a 3-0 lead.

Clemens' key completions on the drive: a third-and-10 conversion for 12 yards to rookie WR Marcus Henry, a second-and-16 needle-threader to rookie TE Dustin Keller for 34 yards, and a fourth-and-3 conversion to Jesse Chatman, who spun and dived for the 9-yard gain.

After KC's one possession, Brett Ratliff took over. And his status entering the game as the NFL's passing-yardage leader with 400 yards on the nose did not help him on his second pass, which he threw right to dropping DE Renaldo Wynn for an interception.

One subject that will unquestionably come up during head coach Eric Mangini's remarks the next few days will be on the Jets' penalties against the Giants. They went in at halftime with five flags thrown against them for 25 yards.

Then on their first three snaps of the second half, with Clemens at QB, they got three more penalties — Chris Baker for illegal formation, Will Montgomery for a false start and Jacob Bender for illegal formation (lining up too far off the line). After running four plays, the Green & White got another yellow flag, on Matt McChesney for a false start.

Then add C.J. Mosley's unsportsmanlike conduct for taking a celebratory jump while still standing over Giants backup David Carr, whom he had just sacked.

The 10 penalties (for 70 yards) through the third quarter threatened to set a Mangini era record. Here are the most penalties in a game by the Jets in the 44 pre-, regular and postseason games with Mangini as Jets coach (*through three quarters):