JET NOTES

Laveranues Coles, arguably the Jets’ best offensive player, is looking forward to the end of the dog days of camp.

“It’s more brutal than other years I’ve been in the league,” Coles said yesterday of Eric Mangini’s camp. “Coming in and learning all the little things and trying to be on point about everything has been tough. From weighing in to eating dinner, all the small things you take for granted, (Mangini) has put a lot of emphasis on.

“Before it was one of those things where you just concerned yourself about preparing to play football, but he’s come in and put emphasis on the things we take for granted.”

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Mangini praised No. 1 draft pick D’Brickashaw Ferguson for putting his false start penalties (two last game and one the week before) behind him.

“Brick had a good day of practice,” Mangini said. “He understands the mistakes he made and the fact that those are in the past.

He was focusing on that in practice and you could see improvement.

He’s a resilient guy.” Asked what he said to Ferguson after his last penalty, Mangini said, “Five second rule. Forget it and focus on the next play.” Of course, Ferguson had to wait a quarter-and-a-half before his next play because he was benched by Mangini.

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Mangini showed not only his compassionate side but his humor yesterday when he began his press conference in a deadpan description of an injury while offering no actual, useable information.

He was speaking of Newark Star-Ledger Jets’ beat reporter Dave Hutchinson, who’s been in the hospital recently, when he said, “I’m not going to reveal the specifics of his injury, but I spoke to ‘Hutch’ yesterday and it seemed like he was doing a little bit better. He’ll be back sooner rather than later. He sounded upbeat. I know he’s working hard and is going to get back as quickly as he can.”