Jet News

A New York Jets tradition is the naming of “King Ugly”.  It is not the most flattering of awards but football is a tough sport.  Today the Jets selected Brian Jackson. JetsTwit.com has all the info here and the corresponding tweets about it.  You can read the whole story here. The New York Jets broke… Read more

Via @DKnyj The overall tone of the practice today was pretty relaxed. We started following the defense and they started off with some Tip Drills, working on blitz packages, etc… Rex was tossing the balls in the tip drill, it was nice to see him involved. At one point he said, “Now Marino’s got it… Read more

The first episode of Jets on Hard Knocks aired tonight on HBO and it lived up to the hype.  Jets fans were excited to see what HBO would do and they did an excellent job of introducing story lines (Rex Ryan’s personality, Darrelle Revis holdout) and they jumped right into the human interest side of… Read more

Transcript of Jets head coach Rex Ryan’s midday news conference following Tuesday’s morning training camp practice.  Courtesy NY Jets PR Department: Good practice today. The offense dominated in the red zone, 7-on-7, but then the defense responded in the team period. We put them in a situation where the offense had to have it, score… Read more

Woody Johnson doesn’t seem to think Darrelle Revis will be on the field week one, the sides are that far apart.  In the JetNation Forums there are numerous threads about the situation: Woody Says no to Mevi$ Should the Jets trade Revis Blame Al Davis Woody’s gut feeling is Darrelle won’t play this year So… Read more

The Jets made some roster moves over the weekend.   Kevin Basped a rookie linebacker from Nevada-Reno was waived along with Aaron Kia a tackle from Hawaii.  The Jets also signed OL Adam Tadisch. Moves this early in training camp are often related to injuries and that was definitely the case with Basped, he was not… Read more

Rich Cimini of ESPNNY.com is reporting that New York Jets Special Teams Coordinator Mike Westhoff has signed a one year contract extension. Mike Westhoff, the highly-regarded special teams coordinator of the New York Jets, signed a one-year contract extension through 2011 on Saturday, a league source told ESPNNewYork.com. Barring a change of heart, Westhoff’s plan… Read more

The New York Jets had their annual green and white scrimmage yesterday at SUNY Cortland.  The Jets vs the Jets, one week into camp.  Here is a thread from our forums that recaps the action.  Some highlights: Over 9,000 fans in attendance On the first play, LaDainian Tomlinson split out wide and hauled in a… Read more

Manish Mehta of the NY Daily News is reporting that 4th year QB Erik Ainge has entered a drug rehabilitation facility.  As we reported last week, Ainge was placed on the Reserved non-football list.  At the time the reason was undisclosed. A team source told the Daily News that the Jets are “very disappointed” in… Read more

Well Jets fans, the 5:30pm check-in time has passed which means that training camp is here.  The first practice is on Monday and here is the entire training camp schedule if you are thinking of heading out to camp. There is no shortage of news as the Jets prepare for their first practice.  The bad… Read more

The New York Jets have signed their first round draft pick Kyle Wilson.  He will report to training camp and will be on time for the first full team practice scheduled for this Monday, 8/2/10. As per Adam Schefter on twitter: @Adam_Schefter Jets first-round pick Kyle Wilson signed a five-year, $13 million max value deal… Read more