Bubba Franks made his presence felt at today's OTA practice.

Every time you looked up, Franks, the 6'6", 265-pound tight end who came over from the Packers as a street free agent in March, was snagging a pass for six.

There were some nice snatches at helmet level or above from Chad Pennington in red zone drills. There was No. 88 reaching for a "touchdown" in the corner of the end zone on a zip… More

Eric Mangini welcomed reporters back to the first availability to watch veteran players at an organized practice this morning. All the Jets vets are here for today's third OTA of the week, except, as the head coach stated at the top of his news conference, TE Chris Baker and S Abram Elam.

Baker was the first topic of interest for the media.

"I've talked to Chris and one of the things that's im… More

We offer one last Draft 2008 blog to wrap up newyorkjets.com's coverage, this one about quarterbacks.

Specifically, Mike Tannenbaum and then Eric Mangini came down after Round 7 was in the books to give their views of the draft. But both men were asked about the Jets' QB depth chart. Nothing much has changed in how they view the battle ahead, although the head coach and the GM both commented abou… More

So what do we know about Erik Ainge?

Well, he's 6'5½", which never hurts when you're a quarterback about to embark on a career of peering over NFL linemen to find your receivers.

And he's the nephew of Celtics general manager Danny Ainge, so the bloodlines are strong.

And now he's the second quarterback with Tennessee ties and the second QB to hail from Oregon to join the Jets' roster.

How's … More

The NFL's competition committee is set to present playoff reseeding at next week's league meetings in Florida, and on the face of it, it seems like a good idea: Give the wild-card team the home field in a wild-card matchup if it has the better record than its division-winning opponent.

Seems like. But let's not fix something that's slightly broken and make it more broken.

The most pressing reaso… More