Ted Ginn Jr. tries to shake reputation as underachiever with Dolphins (The Canadian Press)
DAVIE, Fla. – Twice Ted Ginn Jr. left the New York Jets stumbling and lunging, grasping at and gasping for air.
DAVIE, Fla. – Twice Ted Ginn Jr. left the New York Jets stumbling and lunging, grasping at and gasping for air.
Mark Sanchez and his New York Jets teammates grabbed a few things from their lockers and headed home, eager to get away. They're hoping to re-emerge from their bye-week break as the team they and coach Rex Ryan keep telling everyone they are, despite their 4-4 record. "We're on a great football team," Sanchez said.
Their current bye week has done something to the Jets and coach Rex Ryan that even four losses in their last five games couldn’t.
It has shut them up. Well, at least temporarily, because they won’t be holding any more media briefings until Monday, when the Jets return to practice for the second half of the season.
The talk hasn’t really been the problem during the Jets’ recent skid, which has been caused by deficiencies on the field, not talk off it—although certainly the trash-talking would go over much better with the critics if the Jets were backing it up the way they did during their 3-0 start to the season.
But it isn’t talk that resulted in missed tackles Sunday by the Jets against Ted Ginn Jr., and it isn’t talk that resulted in two meltdown games by…
New England Patriots running back Sammy Morris has been out since Week 6 when he exited the game against the…
If you're a New York City sports fan close your eyes and envision the following: High-priced, smiling athletes standing on floats, cradling a championship trophy as millions of adoring fans shower them in a blizzard of confetti and paper. It's what the New York Yankees and their fans will experience Friday when their caravan slowly winds down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan on its…
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BEREA, Ohio – The Cleveland Browns invisible general manager has disappeared.
DAVIE, Fla. – With one kickoff return, Ted Ginn Jr. nearly matched the Miami Dolphins' offensive yardage total for the entire day.
Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick isn't sure whether he'll remain the Bills starter once Buffalo comes off its two-week break.
Rex Ryan is giving his players six days off, and he's pushing his assistant coaches out of the New York Jets' facility by Thursday. He wants his entire team to use the bye week to get away from football and put what went from a promising start to a disappointing downhill spiral behind them. "We're definitely sick about it," Ryan said Monday.