File Under: Mike Nugent, Danny Ware, Cody Spencer, Alvin Banks, tackling drill
07/28 — The third practice of training camp this afternoon began with a bang. Head coach Eric Mangini called for his first full-contact tackling drill of camp (Friday morning's session was "thud" tackling), and Cody Spencer complied by depositing a major hit on RB Alvin Banks.
The head-on contact separated Banks from his helmet and drew cheers from the crowd of 4,000 at the Hofstra soccer stadium.
Banks and Danny Ware got most of the reps behind Thomas Jones with the absence of Leon Washington from practice for personal reasons.
Ware had a couple of nice plays. In red zone drills, he made a 15-yard inside run, putting his shoulder into S Jamie Thompson to get across the goal line. Then he got free on a swing pass around end as Eric Barton and Bryan Thomas collided trying to hem him in.
Chad Pennington continued to look cool, calm and collected in the hot and humid conditions (mid-80s but at least with a breeze from the north). Chad's best pass: a TD to Jerricho Cotchery down the deep middle, beating CB Justin Miller to the ball.
S Rashad Washington made a nice end zone deflection of a Marques Tuiasosopo pass intended for TE Sean Ryan. But on the next play, Washington was victimized on a deep out-route from "Tui" to WR Wallace Wright.
For the special teams, Ben Graham looked sharp, especially in plus-territory punting, when he turns to his wonder from Down Under. His final drop punt of the period bounced straight in the air at the 2-yard line, where Rayshaun Kizer downed it.
But Mike Nugent couldn't conclude the two two-minute drives that ended practice with successful field goals. The situation for both Pennington and Kellen Clemens was to move the offense from the Jets 40 into FG range trailing, 21-20. Pennington's drive ended with TE Chris Baker getting shaken up after a catch and Nugent missing wide right from 51 yards.
Clemens got his unit a little closer, but this time "Nooge" was wide left from 43. To be fair, it must be stated that the goalposts Nugent was kicking at are Arena League width, not NFL width.
culvaa Said:
Mon, July 30, 2007 - 3:31am EDT"lets be patient with this revis situation...we all have our doubts...4 jet fans thats common... jets played their hand by moving up for him. Now revis and agent(especially i think) realize that and are using it to get what they want. i dont blame either side and think it'll work out...do u randy?"
uncle joe Said:
Mon, July 30, 2007 - 9:22am EDT"Revis should fire his agent,then he could probably get a three year deal if he wanted."
Deb Said:
Mon, July 30, 2007 - 10:48pm EDT"Sounds like Spencer just needs some playing time at linebacker and we all can see the big hits."
rudy Said:
Sat, July 28, 2007 - 5:47pm EDT"anything new with revis?? seems like everyone drafted before and after revis signed 5 yr contacts.... jets are focing him to sign for 6yrs. what gives??? we gave up alot to get this guy .. what r the jets doing?"