The Wednesday Mangini-Favre News Hour (Minus 15 Minutes)" that wrapped up just after 11 a.m. today had quite a few nuggets for Jets fans to sink their teeth into. Perhaps the biggest was Brett Favre's simple declaration at the top of his weekly meeting with reporters:

"I expect us to make the playoffs," Favre stated.

Of course, that's easy to say four days before playing the Buffalo Bills at hom… More

Candlestick is one of the NFL's odd ballparks, all angles and non-parallel lines, a fine location on San Francisco Bay that nevertheless attracts large numbers of seabirds as the day's crowd checks out while leaving its detritus behind.

And the 'Stick and its tenants, the 49ers, had an odd effect on the Jets on Sunday afternoon. After getting better and better while winning seven of eight, the vi… More

Ty Law's not the only Jet whose achy, breaky joints and muscles we're concerned about heading toward the team's flight to Nashville in a few hours.

In fact the whole Jets team (except for Law) went from playing the St. Louis Rams on a Sunday to taking on the Patriots four nights later to "resting" for more than a week before tackling the Titans on Sunday, 10 days after their last game.

I asked a… More

In his first news conference of the week leading up to the Jets' showdown with Tennessee, head coach Eric Mangini was greeted today with a question that seemed to imply his team needs to be afraid, very afraid of the 10-0 Titans.

"Their players were saying after their win over Jacksonville, 'We kind of have that feeling that we can't lose,' " a reporter framed his question. "Is that tough to go a… More

The Jets are on the Gillette Stadium field doing their stretching, and the NFL Network has zeroed in on its favorite player for the moment. Ty Law has attracted three cameramen who are getting down onto the FieldTurf with him as he stretches his quads and hams. We expect to see much footage of Law's 34-year-old muscles throughout the NFL Network broadcast, regardless of how well and how much the f… More