Parking Problems
By Tom Rock
Apparently the five-second rule does not apply to parking privileges. While the Jets are trying to put the memory of the 41-0 loss to the Jaguars behind them, the signs at the primo parking spots in front of the complex normally reserved for the Offensive, Defensive and Special Teams Players of the Week were hooded over. There were cars parked in the spots, but they were probably not player cars (a bit too modest for NFLers). The good spots are only opened up after good games, and the Jets were hard-pressed find anybody worthy of the star treatment. They played more deserving of handicapped spots at times.
Kind of strange that Derrick Strait and Lee Suggs seem to be attached in their NFL travels. The players who were traded for each other during training camp, only to be returned to their original teams when Suggs flunked his physical with the Jets, were both released on the same day. So the big showdown I had envisioned in which Suggs breaks free in the open field and the only player standing between him and the winning touchdown is Strait will never materialize. That would have settled who got the better of the no-deal.
Hank Poteat is back with the Jets, reminiscing about his 24 hours with the team in the preseason. He was brought in the day before the preseason game against the Eagles, then released the day after. He’s spent time under Mangini in New England the last few years, so he should have no problem adjusting to the coach’s expectations. Adjusting to the chemistry in the secondary could be an issue.
B.J. Askew did not practice today and will probably be on the injury report when it is issued later today. Cedric Houston managed to get back on the field, though, wearing a brace on his left knee.
Houston’s return could improve the running game, but the guy who could really put it over the top is Curtis Martin, and today Mangini pretty much said it’s not a matter of if but when he returns to practice. Beginning on Monday, he’ll have three weeks in which to make his practice debut or be moved to IR. After he practices, he’ll have another three weeks in which to become activated. No word on whether or not anyone thinks Martin will be able to play again, but the Jets seem to be extending him every opportunity to try.
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I really wonder whether Curtis Martin's return would do more damage than good. Even if Martin's knee is 100% healthy, the fact remains that he's 33 and thus highly unlikely to be a significant contributor either this year or in the future.
There is a silver lining to a rebuilding season: you get to learn about players who would normally never see the field. Leon Washington is one of those players, and unlike Curtis Martin, he might be a part of the answer at running back. Any return by Martin would almost certainly curtail Washington's playing time, and that would be a shame.
How come Glauber's writing Jet's blogs?
I'm excited to see what Washington can do on Sunday..Hopefully Mangini looks like a genius against Belichick's Golden Boy #2 Saban.