Favre: "You should never rest on what you've done in the past"
We're headed out to practice in a few minutes and I'll have something from that, but real quick:
* Eric Mangini revealed how the team vote went down for the 2008 captains. No surprises until you get to the offensive captains. The defenses captains were Shaun Ellis and Kerry Rhodes; special teams were David Bowens and Leon Washington.
And on offense...
Two newbies: Alan Faneca and Brett Favre.
"I'm honored," Favre said during his press conference with reporters that wrapped up a short while ago.
Favre, as the quote in the header demonstrates and I've mentioned this before, is incapable of speaking cliches. More on that after practice - and other things - but what strikes me about him is his seeming need to prove himself.
"Eric [Mangini] and I had this conversation yesterday," Favre said. "What drives me is the fear of failure. There's always this fear of not being at the top of your game week in and week out."
Our NFL columnist Bob Glauber will be writing more about that tomorrow. I'll be doing a main story on what comes out of Chad Pennington's conference call, which is coming up shortly after 2. Okay, out to practice. Ira, I will check on your question and a few others.
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Erik,
I think you'll find Florham Park to be pretty nice, as "joisey" goes.
I have a brother that lives there so i've done the 24 west thing a bunch. I think the Giants used to practice at Dickinson at one time. If ya see a couple of locals with KC Chief stuff on..that's probably my brother and my nephew....probably the only Chief fans in joisey....go figure.
Hope you have an EZ pass.
Is it true that the final decision to cut guys like Pociask and Poteat was based on their inability to pass Mangini's pop quiz last Friday on the history of Florham Park and travel directions?
Good sign of team cohesiveness going into game one with new parts. Let's hope it's a sign of things to come.
RC, actually Mangini and Jay Cross have an unrelenting fear of Teletubbies. Tubbovisualphobia is a common affliction among middle aged men that normally goes undiagnosed until the arrival of smaller gassier versions of themselves force them at tantrum-point to watch the show. It's unfortunate for Joe and Hank that PO is the Teletubbie most feared by people afflicted by Tubbovisualphobia.
Go Jets!
GT: Tremendous. You da man. Go thing for Pouha that his name is pronounced BO-oo-ha or he would have been gone.