JET NOTES
Look for the Jets to be a much more efficient clock management team this year.
The Jets have had recent problems with some clock issues (see the loss to the Giants last season), so Herman Edwards has assigned special assistant coach Dick Curl to help in that area, attatching himself at the hip to Edwards on the sideline during games.
During practices, the Jets are running a clock and working on pertinent situations, trying to get the coaches and players acclimated.
“We create all types of scenarios,” Edwards said. “All the players have gone through them since OTAs (offseason practices). Dick Curl and I have worked very hard on all types of situations. We’ll create scenarios in preseason games.”
One of the things Edwards did in the offseason the change the chain of command in an effort to decrease the amount of people involved in some clock management decisions. “We cut the communications off; there were too many voices,” Edwards said.
The coaches are trying to train the players, too.
“The young players have no idea that a second here and a second there can win you football games,” Edwards said.
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CB Ray Mickens, one of the elder statesmen on the Jets’ roster in his ninth year here, was struck by how different it is in this camp without incumbent LBs Marvin Jones and Mo Lewis, both of whom were released in the offseason.
“That’s the biggest change in scenery since I’ve been here, even though we went through five head coaches,” Mickens said. “It’s tough going into a camp without Mo and Marvin, because they were tremendous leaders and players.”
Darrell McGlover, a seventh-round draft pick LB out of Miami, is wearing Lewis’ old No. 57 and backup LB Mark Brown has taken over Jones’ No. 55.
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Yesterday’s morning session, the first of the summer in full pads, produced some highlight-film collisions, particularly in the kickoff return drill.
On one play, Jarrell Weaver, a free agent S out of Miami, stopped returner Josh Davis in his tracks with a hit. On another play, TE Chris Baker blew through two players while making a tackle, leaving a wake of players on the ground. . . . WR Santana Moss looked in mid-season form, making a marvelous diving catch of a pass that was thrown behind him. He later beat free agent SS Reggie Tongue with a move over the middle of the field for a long TD.
