We're still in that gray period, that interregnum, between the regimes of Eric Mangini and Rex Ryan. Until the season starts, reporters still will have questions about the two, and those "compare and contrast" queries are always dangerous thickets for a player to venture into.

But Kris Jenkins knows how to handle Uncle Charlie, knows how to smack that yakker into the gap.

Dennis Waszak, my good,… More

Rex Ryan confessed to one "poor decision" Thursday, which was bringing that morning's OTA practice into the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center fieldhouse when the rain had stopped and he could have worked his team outdoors.

But the fieldhouse is good for many things, and one of them was to act as an echo chamber, the better to bounce the taunts of linebacker Bart Scott around to everyone else's… More

Draft, day one ... short and sweet. I can't believe I bought a PSP to kill time for what was sure to be a long day. I didn't even get to create my own player on MLB The Show before we started hearing rumblings the Jets were moving up in the draft.

At first, we heard it was a deal with the Jags at eight if Mark Sanchez was there. But because that was so public, the Redskins could've jumped in fron… More

There is certainly a number of competing opinions about the Jets' tradeup and drafting of QB Mark Sanchez today. I understand the Green & White fan and media base. As Rodney Dangerfield would say sweatingly as he pulled on his collar, "Tough crowd ... tough crowd."

But I've also learned to trust in a few things with the Jets. The team's scouting department, headed by Joey Clinkscales, knows what … More

4:46 p.m. ET: Here's the compensation. To get to No. 5 and get Sanchez, the Jets dealt DE Kenyon Coleman, S Abe Elam and QB Brett Ratliff to the Brownies in addition to both their first (No. 17 overall) and second (No. 52) selections in this year's draft.

4:42 p.m.: What a moment! I have to write some other stuff now. Be back to you soon. 



4:39 p.m.: Sanchez is putting the jacket on. Looks… More