After last season, Rex Ryan said Mark Sanchez needs to erase his hard drive and start over. As for Ryan's hard drive, it remans intact. That was the takeaway from Wednesday, the Jets' second OTA practice, the first open to the media.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The Jets' first open OTA practice Wednesday looked a lot like many of their games last season -- their best receivers were on the sideline. Starters Santonio Holmes (foot rehab) and Stephen Hill (knee swelling) didn't practice.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Rex Ryan is not going to let Mark Sanchez's three interceptions slide. "This is OTAs and things, but that's going to be the pressure we're putting on him that this is unacceptable," Ryan said.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- New York Jets wide receiver Stephen Hill did not participate in the organized team activity on Wednesday. The second-year receiver battled knee problems last season but said a few weeks ago that he is 100 percent healthy.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- We know where Joe Namath stands on the Jets' quarterback competition. He's a Mark Sanchez guy. "I know Sanchez is going to play better," the Jets' legend told reporters Wednesday night at the United Way's annual Gridiron Gala in Manhattan.
The Jets will conduct the second of 10 OTA practices Wednesday morning. This one is significant because the media will be allowed to watch. Some storylines we'll be following: Mark vs. Geno: These OTA practices -- and next month's minicamp, for that matter -- are the preliminary heats in the quarterback competition.
Jets owner Woody Johnson must have read a lot of comic books when he was a kid. Commenting Monday on Mike Goodson's arrest, Johnson invoked a famous line from "Superman." "We're trying to win games and do the right thing.
The case of David Garrard gets curiouser by the day. In an interview over the weekend with Peter King of Sports Illustrated, the former Jets QB revealed there wasn't much cartilage remaining in his balky knee, creating a bone-on-bone condition.
A few seconds after being drafted by the Jets, Geno Smith did an on-camera interview and predicted a playoff appearance. He's not sorry he said it, but that was his last Joe Namath moment, he claimed. "I've already gotten in trouble for saying some things about playoffs and things, which I don't regret," Smith said Sunday on SiriusXM Radio, speaking from the NFLPA Rookie Premiere in Los Angeles.
A quick check on the Jets: 1. Double trouble: John Idzik has a solid plan for rebuilding the Jets, but the plan isn't foolproof, as we now know. The new GM endured an Ike Davis kind of week, as he apparently has swung and missed on his first two free-agent signings -- QB David Garrard (retired) and RB Mike Goodson (arrested).
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