“Reading the ball off of the foot is just like reading the ball off of the bat.”

That’s how Jim Leonhard views punt returning.

“I give a lot of credit to growing up playing baseball,” Leonhard said from the Jets locker room on Friday. “You develop that hand/eye coordination and you get comfortable catching the ball on the run during baseball. That’s helped my returning skills.”

Mark Sanchez is off to a fine start to his NFL career and the league continues to take notice of the Jets’ rookie signalcaller. After earning NFL Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week honors for his Week 1 performance against Houston, Sanchez is up for the same award after helping the Green & White dispose of the New England Patriots on Sunday.

Sanchez, who is the first Jets rookie QB to win the first t… More

The Meadowlands is starting to heat up. It's Jets-Patriots day.

It would be hot no matter what, of course, because it's the Jets' home opener, but New England's visit coupled with Rex Ryan's first home regular-season game as the Jets' head coach, Ryan's challenge to the fans to make it loud and uncomfortable for Tom Brady and the Pats offense, Mark Sanchez's first home start as the Jets' QB of th… More

Jason Trusnik didn't have a high-profile role Sunday at Houston. But he still was very much a part of delivering the Jets' new mission statement.

"We spent all week, all the coaches and all the players, on coming out and basically being physical and aggressive, showing who we are, playing like a Jet," Trusnik told me Friday. "By watching film and getting with Coach Westhoff and the other special … More

It's been easy being green — not just as a Jet but as Howard Green — the first two weeks of this season.

The night before the Jets' season opener against the Texans, Green found out he was going to be one of Rex Ryan's four game captains in Ryan's first game as an NFL head coach.

"That was maybe my second time being a captain," Green told me today in the locker room at the Atlantic Health Je… More