08/19 – Wednesday's single afternoon practice of Capital One Jets Training Camp is the last public practice of the Jets' 2008 camp. The practice is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. and will run about two hours in length. Hofstra University has been the Jets' home for the last 40 seasons. Beginning Sept. 2, the team will begin work at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Facility, its new home in Florham Park, N.J. After Wednesday's practice, Jets players will be signing autographs for the fans in attendance.

Last Public Practice of Camp Set for Wednesday

08/19 – On Saturday night at the Meadowlands, Brett Favre will see the New York Giants for the first time since last season’s NFC Championship Game. Favre, who was intercepted by CB Corey Webster on his final pass of 2008, doesn’t have redemption on his mind. “Obviously it’s a new year. A lot of things have changed,” he said after this afternoon's training camp practice. “It’s a preseason game for us. I’m not thinking about the past. They’re the team to beat in this league. We’re just trying to get better this week.” Webster’s pick in Green Bay territory set up the Giants’ game-winning field goal as Big Blue advanced to the Super Bowl and eventually took home the Lombardi Trophy. More than five years ago, Favre also had the misfortune of throwing a pick on his final pass of the season. It was the ’03 NFC Divisional Game in Philadelphia and the Eagles and the Packers were locked up at 17-all in overtime. Favre thought WR Javon Walker was going deep, but the wideout broke off his route and a long pass was easily fielded by S Brian Dawkins. The Birds took advantage with a game-winning field goal. “It’s happened to me twice in my career. Believe me, it’s disappointing,” he said of those playoff turnovers. “Wanting to come back for one play to me is obviously the wrong reasons to come back, wanting to come back to prove someone wrong or wanting to come back for what happened this off-season. The only reason I came back is I wanted to play, simple as that.” Favre again experienced both ups and downs this afternoon at practice. In the final period, which featured a hurryup situation, he was picked off by Darrelle Revis and the second-year corner had clear sailing to the end zone. But Favre came back and led a scoring drive, culminating on a 54-yard field goal from Mike Nugent. “Once again in the two minute drill today we made some real good plays. A lot of signals were given today. Some things that I had recommended maybe we try we’ve put in during the weeks and really just talked about them,” he said. “We never really came out and executed them and we kind of turned it loose today. “We did good on a couple. We didn’t do quite as well on other ones. The good thing is it was practice. We can go back and look at it on film and make the corrections. I don’t think we’re even close yet.” Football is in Favre’s blood. He is the son of the late Irvin Favre and his father coached him at Hancock North Central High School in Mississippi. Favre was asked what his father would have thought about his interesting off-season experience. “He was pretty straightforward. He would have wanted me to play all along. I’m sure it would have been in Green Bay, but he’d probably be out here at practice every day raising hell with me — what I could be doing better,” Favre said. “He would've wanted me to play until my legs fell off. That was just the way he was.” A Jet almost two weeks now, Favre has embraced head coach Eric Mangini and his new coaching staff. “Our communication has been great,” he said. “I said there’s no substitute for game-like situations: two-minute drills, red-zone situations and third-down situations. You can’t do them all in one day, but we’re trying to throw those in.” After playing a quarter against the Redskins, Favre wouldn’t mind playing four quarters against the Giants. He knows that’s not going to happen, but he’ll welcome every snap he gets. “With every preseason game I’ve played in, I’d love to play the whole game,” he said. “If I’m going to come out here and practice, I’d love to play in the whole game. That’s just my mentality. Will that happen? No. We’re going to be smart about it.” The Jets will open their regular season against the Dolphins in Miami on Sept. 7. The Green & White's new quarterback sees talent around him and believes his team has the opportunity to go places. “If we can get that chemistry and play well together, this team has a good chance. Our receiver talent here is a lot like what I played with in Green Bay — young, quick guys,” he said. “Each one of them offers something different than the next, but we have four or five guys who can easily make big plays at any time. I like it.” After the past few hectic months, Favre just doesn’t think too much about the NFC Championship Game. He’s moved on and he’s happy to be a New York Jet.

Favre Thinking About His Future, not His Past

08/19 – Mike Nugent smiled at the concept that his 54-yard field goal to tie the "game" at 24-all in the two-minute drill near the end of today's training camp practice somehow balanced the celestial books for his 23-yard miss hard off the left upright to end Saturday's Jets-Redskins game. The make was nice, but it was part of a larger approach for the meticulous kicker from the Buckeye State. "I know that if something like what happened to me happened to my teammates, they'd be out there working as hard as they can to make up, or maybe not make up but correct what happened the day before," Nugent said. "The camaraderie I feel on this team, everyone knew I was going to come out today and work hard to get it fixed." The comradeliness on the Jets is a big reason that Nugent was able to get through this rough patch after he faded a 43-yard field goal wide right in the third quarter, then hit from 43, then missed with the game-tying try. "I was disappointed in myself, to be honest," said No. 1, standing tall in front of a number of reporters after spending a lot of autograph time with fans after practice. "I enjoy watching the guys drive the ball all over the field. The drive at the end of the game gave us an opportunity to win it, or at least tie it, and I just did a bad job." And he and holder/punter Ben Graham agreed that the miss coming in the preseason rather than in the regular season doesn't help the medicine go down any easier. "But the coaches and these players are just unbelievable when something like that happens," he continued. "I think things have been going great from the team standpoint this training camp. Everyone's working hard and I really admire the camaraderie on this team. Then the way I kicked this weekend, you never want that to happen, and when and if it does happen, you feel you let your teammates down." But, Nuge said, teammate after teammate told him to forget about it. And so, to some degree, did head coach Eric Mangini. After the 13-10 loss, the boss was "disappointed" the way the game ended and mentioned the "gimme" and "chip shot" nature of that final kick. But today Mangini was supportive of the man who's been his kicker all three of his seasons as Jets coach. ""Mike's just a conscientious guy. Nobody's going to be harder on Mike than Mike is," said Mangini, who talked with Nugent the day before. "That's because he's a perfectionist. He's always trying to improve his stroke, his mechanics. He doesn't miss very often from that distance. I told him we have to move forward. I don't anticipate that happening again in the future." In fact, it was the shortest miss of Nugent's last eight seasons — four seasons as the Ohio State kicker and four preseasons and regular seasons with the Jets. His first RS kick as a Jet was the 28-yarder on which he slipped and had the ball partially blocked at Kansas City in '05. His longest unblocked miss as a pro was the 30-yarder at Tennessee in the '06 opener. He missed twice from 28 in college. So one could throw up one's hands and say Nuge is falling apart. Or one could look at the track record, that since the Titans game, he's hit two last-minute game-tying field goals and three game-winners and improved his kickoffs tremendously and that the Redskins kick was, as he said, "that one-out-of-a-thousand kick." "Coach is smart," Nugent said. "In effect he's saying don't completely forget about it, learn something about it, but get it out of your system." Nuge admits that's easier said than done, but he also a history of rebounding from these rough games with long stretches of excellence. And the best time to start his next run is now just four days away against the Giants back at the Meadowlands.

Nuge 'Disappointed' but Ready to Move Forward