It was an honor today for Eric Allen and me to do a short "Jets Two-Minute Drive" radio interview with Buddy Ryan, father of the new head coach of the Green & White.

Buddy's mellowed just a little from his days as the fiery defensive genius of the Chicago Bears of the Eighties and the Philadelphia Eagles of the Nineties — not surprising, since next month he'll turn 75 years old.

But he's still… More

Danny Woodhead's injury at Friday afternoon's practice may have delayed the start of his NFL career.

Head coach Eric Mangini was asked about Woodhead at today's midday news conference after the NCAA's all-time rushing leader from Division II Chadron State was helped off the field Friday.

"Nothing certain," Mangini said of the progrnosis for Woodhead. "I'd say it's not looking good for him to be … More

The Jets' safeties are becoming kings of all media.

There's the Eric Smith Bookclub, which head coach Eric Mangini made reference to last week during the full-squad minicamp when he said of Smith, "Some of the books he's reading, I think a lot of us would struggle even getting the titles out."

Smith smiled at that, and at the question: So what exactly have you been reading lately?

"Well, I read… More

They play the games in the fall but that doesn’t make schedule day any less exciting. Even though we already knew whom the Jets would face in 2008, we didn’t know when and we wondered for months. Well, thankfully we ain’t wondering anymore!

When we internally received the official email early this afternoon, I decided to break the season up into quarters to view what was on the horizon.

Qu… More

The Patriots, whose defense yielded the longest Super Bowl drive by time on the opening drive of the game, almost matched that record with their offense on the opening drive of the third quarter.

New England got help from the Giants' Chase Blackburn, who failed to get off the field on a punt in time. Coach Bill Belichick called for a red-flagged replay challenge for 12 men on the field and sure e… More