Sunday's best on the Left Coast for Mike DeVito came as he was cradling Calvin Pace's second strip sack of the game midway through the third quarter on the Oakland Coliseum grass.

"That's more than I've touched the ball ever," DeVito reflected on this fumble recovery added to the fumble he plucked out of the Texas air at Houston in the season opener. Actually, it's more than most defensive lineme… More

Bill Parcells once told Jets reporters and fans the day after a tough loss that those kinds of games make him spit up into his mouth just a little.

Rex Ryan has a slightly different biological metaphor for the 24 hours after a game like the 24-10 loss to the Saints in New Orleans on Sunday.

"You get a little 'I can't wait to play again,' " Ryan said at this afternoon's news conference back at th… More

Rex Ryan had the usual number of tidbits at today’s news conference, which followed the final open practice of summer at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center.

For one, he mentioned that linebacker Vernon Gholston will be with the ones on Saturday night vs. the Giants.

“Vernon will start this week. He’s getting all the ‘one’ reps this week,” Ryan said of moving Gholston ahead of Calvin Pace… More

Matt Kroul may have gotten a touch of déjà vu as the team buses swung off of New York State Highway 13 and onto the SUNY Cortland campus one more time late Saturday afternoon.

“Cortland is kind of like Iowa,” said Kroul, who grew up in that state and started a school-record 50 consecutive games for the Iowa Hawkeyes before coming to the Jets as an undrafted free agent in April. “When we drove i… More

There were a lot of elements of this morning’s practice to get Rex Ryan fired up — Jim Leonhard’s interception and lateral to Lito Sheppard, the scuffle between Shaun Ellis and Damien Woody at the end of that play — but the Jets head coach was really pumped about the first play of the blitz pickup drill.

“I think we saw Shonn Greene get welcomed to the NFL by Bryan Thomas,” said Rex about… More