Rookie Linebacker Takes Command For Jets' Defense
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Regardless of the outcome of today's game, Jonathan Vilma's first season at middle linebacker has been a rousing success.
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So the New York Jets won their first two games. Big deal, right? For this franchise, it is huge.
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This time the blitz was on Tully Banta-Cain . The fourth-year linebacker, who is expected to slide into the starting lineup at right outside linebacker because of Junior Seau's season-ending arm injury, was the focus of the media yesterday in the Patriots' locker room. Everyone was curious how Banta-Cain was preparing to transition from reserve to starter.
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With another key member of the injury-weakened Redskins' defense out, rookie linebacker H.B. Blades's role is going to change for the rest of the season.
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They are 22 years old, rookies barely out of their junior years at Miami and Louisiana State, but one is already starting for the defending Super Bowl champions, while the other is trying to break through the group of young defensive ends in front of him.
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ST. LOUIS -- How do you beat the Greatest Show On Turf with two rookie cornerbacks, one of whom just arrived from the practice squad?
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For the first six games of the season, Curtis Martin single-handedly shouldered the running burden for the New York Jets. Martin hardly ever took a break in games, while his seldom-used backup fidgeted impatiently on the sideline.
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Bill Cowher needs only look to the New York Jets' sideline to understand how tricky and troublesome it can be deciding how to spread playing time between two productive running backs in the playoffs.
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The New York Jets solved their backup quarterback problems by signing Quincy Carter, who was recently released by the Dallas Cowboys. Terms of the deal were not announced.
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Through the season&#39;s first two games, the Jets have the league&#39;s top running game and the highest-scoring offense, and they are off to their best start in Coach Herman Edwards&#39;s four-year tenure.
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To a veteran defensive lineman, there is a dead giveaway when a rookie quarterback is rattled. You can see it in the kid&#39;s eyes.
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Brett Favre might start a game with a rookie center for the first time in his 14 NFL seasons.
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When Jets center Nick Mangold started playing football in third grade, he developed his own little fan club.
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All of a sudden, the New York Jets defense looks ordinary. A unit that posted seven second-half shutouts and led the NFL in scoring defense just last month is coming off its worst performance of the season heading into the wild-card game in San Diego tomorrow.
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San Francisco had just scored its second touchdown in two possessions against the Jets&#39; defense Sunday. As the teams lined up for the extra point, Henderson, the Jets&#39; defensive coordinator
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It took Travis Henry only two days to get a job &#151; with a team that turns running backs into stars. And the Jets may have plucked a running back from the NFC champion Bears &#151; Thomas Jones.
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The New York Jets have signed quarterback Quincy Carter, who was recently released by the Dallas Cowboys. Carter will be a backup to starter Chad Pennington.