A question about Leon Washington at today's news conference brought some new anecdotes and observations about No. 29 from head coach Eric Mangini at his morning news conference today.

"I could talk all day about Leon," Mangini said, reflecting again on how far Washington has come from his first days as a fourth-round rookie out of the 2006 draft to now.

"The fact that he was voted special teams … More

One big piece of housekeeping at the top of head coach Eric Mangini's first news conference in the new Atlantic Health Jets Training Center interview room this morning was the naming of his team's captains for the season. Here are the captains chosen by the Jets:

Offense — Brett Favre, Alan Faneca

Defense — Shaun Ellis, Kerry Rhodes

Special Teams — David Bowens, Leon Washington

"What I … More

One theme that arose at head coach Eric Mangini's daily news conference this morning was that of Mike Westhoff and Internet rumors that had the longtime special teams guru returning to the Jets.

"Mike didn't leave because of anything in terms of him not being happy with the organization or me not being happy with Mike," Mangini said. "Mike's a great coach. I really like Mike a lot. He was in a re… More

One of the treats of watching every snap of every practice of your favorite NFL team is observing the unheralded or unknown players step up and make play after play.

One of those Jets in today's second practice of camp was WR Paul Raymond, the small, fast undrafted free agent out of Brown.

In the morning Raymond nicely gathered in a deep ball from Brett Ratliff during position drills. And he pic… More

As we forge ahead into the off-season, I'll be revisiting some areas from 2007 as I complete one spreadsheet or database after another on the season just finished. Today the topic is penalties.

In short, head coach Eric Mangini's unflagging efforts to reduce flags against his team paid dividends again. The Jets had 63 penalties marked off against them for 486 yards, both figures the second-lowest… More