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

ESPN is giving the Green & White grudging respect as a team on the rise.

On Monday, John Clayton from ESPN.com (I sometimes like to call him John The Clayton from ESPN The Magazine) pegs the Jets as one of his Five Surprise Teams to Watch in 2008.

Clayton slots the Jets at No. 5, right behind the Bills, saying the Jets "are operating like a team trying to make a big move" and stating that if the… More

Former Green & White WR Justin McCareins was heard from out of Music City this morning, and he wasn't singing the blues.

"It feels great. It feels like I never left," McCareins told The City Paper of Nashville after a Sunday OTA practice with the Tennessee Titans. "There's a lot of new faces, but in terms of the coaching staff and Coach [Mike] Heimerdinger being back in the building, it's just a … More

Nate Garner was a big man on campus, both at the Jets' Hofstra University training complex during the weekend's rookie minicamp and at the University of Arkansas last season.

His BMOC status with the Jets was strictly a physical observation: The seventh-round tackle from Arkansas checked in a 6'6" and 326 pounds. He was the second-largest player of the 57 (six draft picks, 10 undrafted free agent… More

The air was a little brisk, in the upper 50s perhaps, for this morning's third practice of the Jets' weekend rookie minicamp, leading to this exchange between defensive coaches:

Bryan Cox: "Bob, you look cold."

Bob Sutton: "It's linemen's weather."

It was also special teams weather, at least for much of the 40 minutes of media availability. And while the Jets' 50 draft picks, undrafted free age… More