If the Jets didn't have to worry about this week's game, they could feel sorry for themselves and ask each other why they couldn't be fortunate enough to play in the NFC instead of the AFC. But the Jets play in the tougher of the two conferences, and mediocre teams don't make the playoffs in the AFC. After last week's disappointing -- and one-sided -- loss to Buffalo, the Jets look like just that, a......

The sad Jets host the disappointing Raiders, Sunday at 1 p.m. in East Rutherford. With former Giants QB Kerry Collins struggling, Oakland looks to start the physical Marques Tuiasosopo, who hasn't even taken a snap in game action this season. On another football note, this is Heisman Trophy weekend, and while the award will be bestowed Saturday night on ESPN from the Nokia Theatre for the first time, tonight marks the annual tradition of the......

When Mike Nugent's potentially game-winning 53 yard field goal sailed about 12 inches short, and the host Jets soon fell to 2-9 with a 21-19 loss to New Orleans, you knew it wasn't long before the "there's always next year" hopes and columns would arise. But it's just not that simple yet. After Curtis Martin yesterday became the fourth NFL running back to ever reach 14,000 yards in the first quarter, the offensive unit soon......

Another week, another loss and, for the time being another pair of injured quarterbacks for the Jets (2-8), who were shut out 27-0 in Denver. Now it's just pathetic, and even the most diehard Jets fan will have to come to grips with that in the coming days and weeks ahead. After a concussion to starter Brooks Bollinger and an injury to Vinny Testaverde's ankle, Kliff Kingsbury entered the game. That Kingsbury may be in......

It's become a season from Hell for the Jets, as the team lost its fourth consecutive game and a 10th player to injury for the season - starting right tackle Jason Fabini, in a 30-3 loss to Carolina Sunday in Charlotte. Even if you're not a Jets fan, you may feel for someone as heartfelt as coach Herm Edwards, who finds himself increasingly frustrated and emotional. "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you strong,"......

The image of San Diego's Ladainian Tomlinson burning former All-Pro cornerback Ty Law for a 25-yard touchdown will be a difficult one for any Jets fan to forget. But for a while, that pain almost was forgotten, as Brooks Bollinger replaced a slightly injured and mostly ineffective Vinny Testaverde to rally the Jets (2-6) to turn a would-be laugher into a nail-biter, as the Chargers (5-4) held on for a 31-26 victory Sunday in East......

No, they didn't get a new stadium deal. No, they didn't win. But...next week, the Jets don't have a game. That means they won't have a chance to lose a game or have a chance to get injured. With their luck though, Brooks Bollinger will drop a can of Chunky Soup on his foot. Last night's ugly 27-14 loss to the Falcons, dropping the Jets to 2-6, featured four (!!) turnovers by Vinny Testaverde before......

Jets fans probably weren't expecting much out of Brooks Bollinger in his first career start against Baltimore yesterday and that's exactly what they got. On top of Bollinger's inexperience at quarterback, the Jets had a conservative game plan that led to anemic offensive stats in their 13-3 loss. The only thing that kept them in the game was Baltimore's craptacular offense and the Jets defense. On the afternoon, the Jets had 8 first downs, 152......

The news keeps getting worse for the Jets. It looks like Chad Pennington will be out for the rest of the season with another tear to his right rotator cuff. With his second tear to that shoulder, the injury could be a career threatening one for the Jets quarterback. As we mentioned yesterday, the injury occurred in the 2nd half of Sunday's 26-20 loss to the Jaguars. Because Jay Fiedler, Pennington's backup, also suffered a......

Entering the season, one of the big questions facing the Jets was how well Chad Pennington's shoulder would hold up. With erratic performances in the first two games of the season, Sunday's 26-20 loss against the Jaguars couldn't make Jets fans feel any better. At the start of the 2nd half, Pennington was sacked on consecutive plays and had his shoulder injured on the 2nd sack. Pennington would return later (after an injury to......

The game: Jets at Kansas City (1:00 PM ET, Sunday, CBS) As expected, during the Jets' 2005 offseason, the team's proposal for a new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan (and its subsequent rejection and abandonment) made for more headlines than the football franchise itself did. But thankfully, the football franchise did not sit on its heels in theoffseason, knowing it needed to make several necessary moves if there is to any hope of......

After learning he had lost the Jets’ backup quarterback job to exiled Cowboy Quincy Carter virtually overnight, Brooks Bollinger responded the only way he could, rallying the team to a come-from-behind 28-27 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in the exhibition finale for both teams on Friday night. Although it was really just a battle of third-stringers, Bollinger, who suffered a minor knee injury in the team’s first preseason game looked like Joe Montana in leading......

The race for the Jets' seemingly vacant backup quarterback spot seems to be over as soon as it began, as the team signed former Dallas Cowboy starter Quincy Carter to a one-year contract. Sources have indicated Carter will earn $500,000 for the season in his role, but if Chad Pennington goes down to injury again, it might be a good deal in the end, considering Carter's experience as a starter. It was only three weeks......

For most of the evening, Chad Pennington his teammates looked nearly perfect in Saturday night's 31-7 preseason drubbing of the host Indianapolis Colts, a team many see as a favorite to once again reach the AFC Championship. It was only a preseason game, but it's always a good sign when your defense holds Peyton Manning in check for a half, especially considering Gang Green started three rookie defensive backs in its Nickel package (CBs Derrick......

The long list of unanswered questions on the minds of Jets fans certainly didn’t dwindle much after Friday night’s 23-13 preseason-opening loss at the hands of host New Orleans Saints. Of course, wins and losses often signify little more than one team’s third team is better than the other’s, but the season’s first certainty is that Offensive Coordinator Paul Hackett remains every Jet fan’s favorite target for second-guessing this season, as the suddenly young Jet......