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While much of the football excitement this weekend surrounds the New York Giants' game versus the New England Patriots tonight, the Jets still have an interesting Week 17 matchup.

Eight of the Jets' 12 losses have come by seven points or fewer. Too many of them have followed the script of Sunday's 10-6 defeat at the hands of the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. Jets fans have to be sick of a banged-up team not expressing confidence in its quarterback -- Chad Pennington wasn't named the starter but played over Kellen Clemens and his sore ribs -- and then going out there and laying an offensive egg. Without his most dynamic playmaker (Laveranues Coles is on injured reserve), Pennington still found a way to complete 81 percent of his passes and throw for 264 yards.

Set your TiVo's, kids. "Celebrity Cooking Showdown" is scheduled for the week of April 17th on NBC. This week-long competition pits various "celebrities" against each other in a culinary smackdown of sorts, judged by food critic Gael Greene and high-end event planner Colin Cowie. The motley crew of celebs includes Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez, Ja Rule, Tom Arnold, Gabrielle Reece, Days of Our Lives' Allison Sweeney, supermodel Naomi Campbell, reigning Miss USA Chelsea Cooley and country singer Big Kenny. The show is hosted by none other than Alan Thicke from Growing Pains and the Food Network's Sandra Lee (who hosts Semi-Homemade, not high on the Gothamist love-list) will host the show (at least she's not judging).

It's the dawn of a new era as the Jets are expected to announce the hiring of New England defensive coordinator Eric Mangini as the 15th head coach in franchise history, ESPN.com first reported last night. The first three things that standout about Mangini are: his age, (now the youngest coach in the NFL, turning 35 on Thursday), his prior tenure with the Jets (1997-99 as a defensive assistant under Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells) and his being a protege of Belichick, the Pats coach who actually helmed the Jets for a single day in 1999 and is thought to be among the game's all-time greatest defensive minds.

We hear Kansas City is quite nice, but since when is a move there an upgrade? All things considered, for Jets head coach Herman Edwards, it might be. Several sources are reporting that Edwards, the Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs were nearing a deal that will allow him to bolt with two seasons still remaining on his contract. He would replace his friend and onetime coach, Dick Vermeil. By all accounts, he'd be walking into a better scenario in KC, with better pay, less of a pressure-filled fishbowl and a team only a hair from being a force. Those aspects have worked out pretty well for Edwards' close friend Tony Dungy in Indianapolis.

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Don’t be surprised to get a bigger than average taste of the team’s No. 2 RB, Derrick Blaylock, who was acquired in the offseason after four years with the Kansas City Chiefs. Blaylock has only once had more than 20 carries in a game. Leftwich hopes to play after pulling his groin against Indianapolis, where he also made an obscene gesture at a Colts coach and was fined over $5,000 – (Leftwich may have been goaded by some ill-advised taunting during the moment of his injury). Because Laveranues Coles (whose personal revelation has gotten some journalists thinking bigger ones may follow around the league) is starting to enter a groove with Chad Pennington, Gothamist predicts a 24-10 Jets win.