Players on seeing Chad Sunday: It will be "weird"
That was the word of choice from the players Jets beat reporters just spoke with on a conference call (Eric Mangini is still coming up at 6 p.m.).
Kerry Rhodes: "It’s going to be weird. He's been here since I've been here, before I got here. He's a winner. When he’s in and he’s healthy, he’s a productive quarterback in this league. You know he's going to be able to make all the reads. He knows what we like to do, we know what he likes to do. It will be a chess match. It’s going to be fun."
Jerricho Cotchery: "It will be weird seeing him in a different jersey. It’s going to be fun, but it will be very weird seeing him in another jersey."
Nick Mangold: "Chad’s a heck of a competitor. I know he’s going to be bringing his 'A' game, as we will as well. You’re going against a fierce competitor there. It’s going to be a battle for 60 minutes."
Shaun Ellis: "It's going to be very weird. Only thing I know him to be in is green and white. He’s a smart quarterback who knows our system. We're going to have to play a little bit of cat and mouse."
Players were not off today in the traditional sense. They began preparation for the Dolphins, going through a brief walk-through and otherwise spending much of day in the spacious classrooms of their new facility in Florham Park, N.J.
"I think it’s fantastic," Mangold said of the place. "What they’ve put into this building, it’s amazing. State of the art meeting rooms, the quality of the fields, the weight room. Everything was designed with the purpose of allowing us to have better preparation to be at the peak of our game. It's exciting to be in the building after hearing about it so long."
Cotchery called the new locker room "extraordinary." The place should be. I heard famed architect Rem Koolhaas consulted on the project.
Not really.
Anyway, Mangini coming up in a few.
* UPDATE: This Rutgers/Fresno State game...3-0 in the third? Sheesh.
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Knowing Mangini, he probably directed all players to convey a "weird" feeling when asked how they feel knowing they're going to see Chad in a Fish jersey. I wouldn't put it past him.
Erik, Erik, Erik. What kind of budget do they have you on? Who's booking your lodging, Glauber? He's sticking you in the low rent section of town where it sounds like sleazy Leprechaun sex parties are the norm. You better hope Mangini doesn't get wind of this or you'll never hear the end of it.
They should get a "weird" feeling that every other team that played against Chad. That feeling that the football is going to hang there forever. If there's any hurricane wind remnants that should favor the stronger arm. Sloppy field conditions should aid the defense.
Was Plas Shurtenhung, famed Icelandic architect, name already taken?
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