FIRST QUARTER

And the Jets are flying. After winning the toss, the Green & White get the opening kickoff, with Brad Smith the single returner and getting the return only to the Jets 21.

Then Chad Pennington fattened up his thin passer rating with a brilliant first play from scrimmage, spotting Leon Washington out of the backfield and turned loose down the right sideline. Pennington pumpfaked, th… More

The Radar is open for business as the 39th opening kickoff of the summer series between the Giants and the Jets is about a half-hour away. And the one thing that jumps out at me as I watch the Jets stretching before the first "road" game of Eric Mangini's second season as head coach is that the players are wearing their white jerseys and white pants for the first time this year.

Jets fans with a … More

Several newyorkjets.com visitors have inquired about the draft trade value chart that many analysts invoke when weighing who got the better of a swap of picks. One version of the chart is available on several football Web sites. Here's that chart in a nutshell:

Each position in the draft is assigned a value, ranging from 3,000 points for the first pick overall to 2 points for the 224th pick. And … More

The Jets' strange draft is over, and Mike Tannenbaum and Eric Mangini seem pleased and not too tired after the way it all unfolded — two first-day tradeups for top defensive players, two late second-day stay-at-home picks for lesser known offensive players.

In a little banter to capture the mood, Dave Hutchinson of the Star-Ledger asked Tannenbaum, "With this draft, Mike, how did you change you… More

It's been a quiet Day Two for the Green & White so far. But the quiet ended a few minutes ago when the team took the latest player to have core Jet values stamped all over him.

Jacob Bender, the sixth-round pick on Sunday afternoon, was a team captain at Division I-AA Nicholls State in southeastern Louisiana.

And he's a self-made, blue-collar guy. One memory he has from growing up in Maryland, … More