Everyone knows this will be the final training camp for the Jets at Hofstra before they move to their new facility in Florham Park, but they do have a chance to take a little bit more of the region with them. Shane Olivea, a product of Lawrence High School (and before that, Long Beach) who went to Ohio State, was recently released by the Chargers and would probably be a nice fit for the Jets at right tackle. It would also give the team a Sunrise Highway Connection at their bookends on the line with Freeport's D'Brickashaw Fergon on one side and Olivea on the other. The could talk about mawls and the Sudden State Parkway and driving past Joey Buttafuoco's house with a car full of friends. (Maybe they're too young for that last one, but it was something I certainly enjoyed doing in high school!)
So far, though, that's not in the Jets' thinking. I spoke with Shane's agent, Ken Zuckerman, who said he hasn't heard from the Jets about the former Martone Award winner who was recently named to as a "Best of the Rest" in Newsday's Elite 11 list of the top high school football players on Long Island (Ferguson, by the way, was among the 11). Don't the Jets have any respect for the Martone Award???
Anyway, the Jets have their hands a little full right now with all these trades and offers. It's a good thing there's an extra day this year because I don't think the Jets could have fit all of this into a regular old 365-er. Maybe they'll reach out to Olivea when the dust settles. Zuckerman said Olivea would definitely be interested in hearing from the Jets. Of course they're his home team, but being unemployed right now, I'm sure he'd be interested in hearing from anybody.