The man in the national spotlight and under the green and white microscope in Crabtown tonight will be Mark Sanchez, and rightly so. The kid quarterback from Southern Cal with the perfect teeth, the big hands and the precocious presence gets his first NFL start of any kind against the big bad Ravens defense and their rabid purple-clad fans. How Sanchez does, good, bad or indifferent, will be the h… More

Rex Ryan heard a little more today about the Baltimore Ravens remarks he made Monday, about being passed over for the Ravens head coaching job last year and about his feelings on the Ravens handing out uniform No. 99, Michael McCrary’s old number, to rookie LB Paul Kruger.

And one or two columnists probed the Jets head coach on if he’ll be moderating his free-wheeling remarks once the buzzsaw o… More

Tense moments during the daylong negotiations between the Jets and Bart Scott's agent? Not that Mike Tannenbaum or Rex Ryan noticed.

Media reports in the mid-afternoon suggested that agent Harold Lewis was suddenly talking with the Ravens to try to get a bidding war started. But the Jets' GM said that's not what he saw from his end of the news story that brought the Ravens' dynamic ILB to the Jet… More

The shopping season is under way.

Redskins owner Dan Snyder made the first splash in the NFL’s free agency/trading period with a huge contract for the enormous Albert Haynesworth. Can’t say anybody is surprised that Snyder once again opened up his wallet to the reported tune of seven years and $100 million with $41 million guaranteed for the interior lineman.

Haynesworth, one of the game’s f… More

As I sat this morning looking out at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center fields and searching for inspiration, my partner Eric Allen, sitting behind me and looking the other way, provided it by asking a question:

"Isn't that Chris Mortensen walking down the hall with Bruce Speight?"

Indeed it was the NFL über-analyst for ESPN surveying the facilities with the Jets' senior director of media … More