One significant piece of housekeeping announced by Eric Mangini at the top of today's news conference is the release of FB Darian Barnes. The Jets signed Barnes in the off-season as an unrestricted free agent to be a big bopper in leading Thomas Jones in the running game.

But that hadn't worked out. Barnes wasn't playing on every down on offense, didn't play special teams, and as a result he was … More

Darian Barnes wasn't nicknamed "Full-Tilt" with the Dolphins for nothing. The hard-hitting fullback expressed his remorse while sitting in front of his locker today for taking Wednesday's tackling drill to such an extreme that rookie DE Mike DeVito came out of it with an injured shoulder.

"I'm sorry that happened," Barnes said. "These are my teammates. I love these guys. I just lost sight of the … More

Before our quadrennial Jets-Giants rivalry gets renewed tomorrow at the Giants' home stadium, we bring you two more views on the matchup from the Green & White locker room.

You'd think that a guy like FB Darian Barnes, who grew up in Toms River at the Jersey shore, would have a favorite team from among the Jets and Giants, or even might have felt the pull of the Eagles from the southwest. And Bar… More

Eric Mangini made no excuses for the heat or for his long morning practice in the middle of it. (Did you expect him to?)

"The heat's bothering people, everybody's tired," Mangini said. "But heat, cold, rain noise, whatever it is, we've got to be able to function effectively regardless of the outside conditions."

As for the two-hour, 42-minute length, the coach explained that practice "is schedul… More

The two-minute portion of practice kicked in after noon, and the defense got back at the offense after the O did some earlier damage in the passing game.

At the beginning of the two-minute period, my newyorkjets.com compadre, Eric Allen, observed Chad Pennington delivering a perfect 12-yard timing pass to TE Chris Baker, the kind of ball that gets completed against even perfect coverage, and was … More