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Ellis denied contract extension

GameSetMatch — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:37:20 +0000

First, Thomas Jones, then Alan Faneca. Will Shaun Ellis be the next over-30 veteran dumped by the Jets? He wonders.

Ellis, a defensive end, told the Associated Press Thursday his request for a contract extension was rejected by the Jets, leading him to believe he might not be with the team for the upcoming season. Ellis, 32, may have been dangled in trade talks before last month’s draft but is now not in danger of being jettisoned, according to a person familiar with the team’s thinking.

“I don’t know,” Ellis said. “I think so. Well, I hope so. You never know what they’re thinking up there. You’ve just got to roll with it. We try to control our own fate, but we really can’t.”

The Jets’ longest-tenured player, Ellis is due to make $3.35 million in the final year of his contract. He recorded 6½ sacks last season, bringing his career total to 68 and made the Pro Bowl as an alternate. Ellis has a troublesome knee, but the Jets are hoping to squeeze one more season out of him, especially with depth concerns at defensive end.

Click here to read the full article – By Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com

Taylor to join Jets’ defense

GameSetMatch — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:50:28 +0000

Linebacker Jason Taylor is leaving the Dolphins to play for the Jets, his agent, Gary Wichard, told the Miami Herald.

League sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter that Taylor — the NFL’s active sacks leader with 127½ — agreed to a two-year deal that could be worth as much as $3.75 million in the first year.

The Miami Herald reported that Taylor is tentatively scheduled to travel to the New York area on Wednesday to sign the contract.

Because of the Final Eight rules that restrict the Jets from signing Taylor for more in the first year than what Jay Feely received from leaving the Jets to join the Cardinals, Taylor will be on the Jets’ books for $1.75 million in 2010, but he could earn another $1.25 million to $2 million depending upon his performance.

Click here to read the full article – By of ESPNNewyork.com

Caldwell pulls starters in third with 5-point lead; Jets rally for win

GameSetMatch — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:35:26 +0000

Peyton Manning and the rest of the Colts accepted Jim Caldwell’s plan. The hometown fans didn’t like the imperfect ending one bit.

With Manning and a handful of other key players standing on the sideline hoping to save the Colts (14-1) from yet another second-half deficit Sunday, Caldwell never gave them a chance.

The New York Jets ended the Colts’ pursuit of perfection and their NFL-record 23-game winning streak with a 29-15 victory that had fans serenading Lucas Oil Stadium with boos and Manning, the three-time MVP, offering support for his coach’s decision.

“Until any player in here is the head coach, you follow orders and you follow them with all of your heart,” Manning said. “That’s what we’ve done as players. We follow orders. Our orders were not to give up a turnover, not to give up a kick return for a touchdown. There’s not many games, under any circumstances, that you win when you have turnovers and give up a kick return for a touchdown.”

Click here to read the full article – By Associated Press of ESPN.com

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Jets’ Leonhard questionable vs. Patriots

GameSetMatch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:28:51 +0000

New York Jets safety Jim Leonhard is questionable for the team’s game at New England after being limited in practice with a broken right thumb.

Leonhard, injured in last Sunday’s loss to Jacksonville, returned to practice Friday and participated in individual drills as well as some team activities while wearing a cast on his hand.

Coach Rex Ryan said he’d consult with Leonhard and the team’s trainers to see how he feels leading up to the game Sunday. Eric Smith would get the start opposite Kerry Rhodes if Leonhard can’t play.

Ryan also ruled out linebacker Vernon Gholston for the second straight week with a hamstring injury. Gholston was injured in practice last Monday in the team’s first workout off the bye-week break.

Click here to read the full article – By Associated Press of ESPN.com

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No defense for playing blame game

GameSetMatch — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:25:24 +0000

Jets Nation would had to have been blind not to see Kerry Rhodes running a yard behind Marcedes Lewis on the 33-yard completion that essentially sealed a fate the Jets had been tempting since the opening kickoff.

But there was no justice in that. Rhodes, it turned out, was an innocent man.

“There should have been somebody over the top,” said the free safety, throwing that somebody under the bus, from where strong safety Jim Leonhard emerged with tire marks and an apology.

“Knowing we had a timeout, in hindsight we probably should have burned it. It was too late to try to get it changed. You saw what happened.”

After David Garrard, who got the ball back with 4:56 to play trailing by one, had twice moved the sticks on third-down conversions to Zach Miller and Mike Thomas (the second on a third-and-9), the Jacksonville quarterback nailed the slant to Lewis that put the ball on the Jets’ 14, setting up Josh Scobee’s chip shot field goal as the game expired.

Click here to read the full article – By JAY GREENBERG of New York Post

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Jets’ Sanchez donates hot dogs

GameSetMatch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:01:35 +0000

New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is trying to turn Hot Dog-Gate into an opportunity to help the less fortunate in New Jersey.

Sanchez has bought 500 hot dogs and 500 hamburgers, along with buns and rolls, through A&P supermarket, and donated them to the Community Soup Kitchen of Morristown, N.J.

Sanchez was the subject of criticism — and he later issued an apology — when he was caught on camera Sunday eating a hot dog on the sideline during the Jets’ 38-0 victory against the Raiders.

Click here to read the full article – By The Associated Press of ESPN.com

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Sanchez leads opportunistic Jets past Raiders 38-0

GameSetMatch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:05:41 +0000

The demeanor of the two starting quarterbacks at the end of the game summed it all up.

Mark Sanchez was sneaking a hot dog on the New York Jets’ sideline, while JaMarcus Russell watched solemnly as backup Bruce Gradkowski finished up another blowout loss for the Oakland Raiders on the other.

The Jets achieved their goal of taking pressure off their rookie quarterback, forcing four turnovers and running for 316 yards in a 38-0 victory over the Raiders on Sunday.

“It makes it so easy on the offense when your defense is playing like that,” Sanchez said.

Click here to read the full article – By JOSH DUBOW of The Associated Press

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Ryan benches Ihedigbo and Murrell

GameSetMatch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:25:23 +0000

As first reported by The Post this morning, Rex Ryan benched safety James Ihedigbo and linebacker Marques Murrell for throwing punches at Bills tight Derek Fine in overtime Sunday.

Ryan informed both players in a morning meeting that they wouldn’t play Sunday’s game against the Raiders in Oakland and that the plan is for neither to even make the trip.

Adding insult, both players were fined $5,000 by the league for throwing the punches.

The play in question occurred at the end of Leon Washington’s kickoff return to start overtime when Ihedigbo and Murrell both threw punches at Fine in a scrum at the end of the play when Fine’s helmet came off. It appeared on the replay that Murrell’s punch landed and Ihedigbo’s missed, but it was Ihedigbo who was penalized and ejected from the game, leaving the Jets with poor field position to start OT.

Click here to read the full article – By MARK CANNIZZARO of New York Post

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Jets suffer awful loss to lowly Bills, 16-13 in OT

rsanrel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:39:09 +0000

They were eager to prove that what occurred six days earlier was an aberration, that it was just a slight hiccup.

The Jets weren’t feeling like big shots coming off that Monday Night Meltdown, but they were confident that they were going to get things turned around Sunday against the Bills, a team that was reeling and had dropped its previous eight contests against AFC East opponents. This was supposed to be their get-well game, with the Bills providing the perfect fodder to pound into submission and cure their ills.

Never happened, though, and now the Jets are the team that’s reeling after a 16-13 overtime loss. The Jets have dropped three straight since their season-opening three-game winning streak.

In a game in which the Jets had several chances to put Buffalo away, they made too many miscues and not enough plays, failing to step on the Bills’ throats despite the countless opportunities.

Ryan Lindell banged a 47-yard field goal through with 2:44 left in overtime – making amends for a 46-yard miss at the end of regulation – to put the finishing touches on a stinging loss that left the Jets searching for answers.

“It’s unfortunate,” linebacker Bart Scott said. “We knew that team was going to come out and play hard. We knew they were a competitive group. We let one get away, but we have to go back and reanalyze ourselves. We’ll find out a lot about ourselves. There will be a lot of things said, and deservedly so. We deserve every negative thing that’s being said about us.”

There’s going to be a lot of negative things said about the Jets’ golden rookie quarterback, who had a stinker of a game. Mark Sanchez was a turnover machine, whipping ill-advised passes around and never getting into any sustained rhythm. He threw five interceptions and finished with a quarterback rating of 8.3, completing 10 of 29 attempts for 119 yards.

Click here to read the full article – By RODERICK BOONE of NewsDay.com

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Jenkins’ injury may be serious

GameSetMatch — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:06:10 +0000

As bad as the loss to the Bills was yesterday, the Jets were dealt a debilitating blow when they lost nose tackle Kris Jenkins to a left knee injury that could be serious, according to coach Rex Ryan.

Jenkins, the heart of the Jets’ defense, went down in the second quarter when teammate Shaun Ellis appeared to fall on the back of his leg in a pile-up at the end of a running play.

Jenkins wasn’t available for comment after the game, but he was seen limping out of the locker room with his left knee heavily bandaged.

Click here to read the full article – By MARK CANNIZZARO of New York Post

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