I don't understand, unless of course the FO and entire CS is sitting down at the table with Favre and his agents. Training camp isn't that long- they need time to evaluate talent and work with the players. To cancel one day of camp at the last minute seems like a logistical nightmare. Your GM hammers out contract details and I'd be very surprised if they involved their coaching staff in such a decision during camp. If the concern was injury to a player they might be looking to unload in a trade, they could always find a way to have that player sit it out for 24 hours. Then again, this is the Jets and stranger things have happened.
God please let this Brett Favre speculation shit just end. He just needs to effin retire. I'm sure soon we'll be seeing threads like: Eric Mangini was seen leaving a Walgreens pharmacy this morning likely to pick up some vitamin C so he doesn't get sick on the plane ride to Missouri to meet with Brett Favre.
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume it's a team building exercise, about which we'll hear details after the fact. They probably just don't want to disclose the location lest us rabid fans show up to their little game of paintball.
I just think something is going on. I don't know why I feel it, but the force is pinging all over me.
It has also been determained that Brett Favre is meeting Mangini in Missouri becuase he prefers to meet head coaches in states with names that have an even number of consonants.
I think that the team-building exercise makes more sense than anything. We're going to find out tomorrow that they were playing Bingo/Day at the Races with the older folks at the Garden City Home for the Aged.
In order to land Favre, Woody Johnson, Mike Tannenbaum Eric Mangini, Bill Callahan, and Brian Schottenheimer need to be in Mississippi at the same time showing Jet Favre the love he desperately needs. Where are they now? Does anyone have a read on where these people currently are? Why do papparrazzo waste their time with Brangeloonies when they could be doing us all a real service here? If the above mention are not in town, it means they passed up Montauk to go fishing in the Deep South.
That's what I think too. Not to mention it now gives Mangini the opportunity to think really hard about Favre for a day, probably an option he'd love to have given that neither of the QB's has done all that well this offseason.
Not buying it. They can still do walkthroughs, hold positional meetings. You don't cancel a full day of camp in just the 2nd week. Rainfall has never been a problem in the past and yesterday's rain certainly wasn't that extreme.
I don't know how it is today, but I was out in the Hofstra area yesterday, and it was pretty bad. The point about the bubble is a good one, but the rain was bad yesterday.
Team building makes sense too, but again, why not just tell the media. "The team is doing a team building activity at an undisclosed location." They have to have thought of the potential rumors flying around in reaction to the news.
Something odd is going on...Training camp is way too valuable to miss an entire day. And who cares about muddy fields?? You think Mangini cares about people getting their feet wet? He loves bad conditions...And forget about "team building"...U kidding me??? We have a season coming up, this is no time to be tree climbing, or flying on a zip rope, or catching each other with your eyes closed. And yes, they have a bubble, which everyone is capable of practicing inside. And if this had anything to do with Farve, then it wouldnt involve the ENTIRE coaching staff....This is very odd.
Then you have to go with one of two potential options: either Mangini is really happy with what he's seen in camp so far or he's really disgusted. Personally I think it's the weather. No point in having minor injuries disrupt the camp this early, particularly after several days of dicey weather. Yesterday wasn't remotely as bad as last Thursday and Friday up here in CT. Thursday was the worst thunderstorm I have ever seen and I've seen some doozies in my time.
R-E-S-T! Rest! Rest! Rest! July 28, 2008 11:02 AM Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Graham New York Jets coach Eric Mangini has cancelled Monday's practices. They originally had been scheduled for 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. Mangini scrubbed the schedule to give his players a recovery day. Mangini, always exploring ways to maximize each moment, decided before camp that he would give his players an occasional day off to recoup physically and mentally. One more Brett Favre question and the Jets might have needed to load a charter bus for the Bellevue psychiatric ward. "My goal is to get them as prepared as possible in the best possible shape that they can be in but not fatigued, and finding that balance," Mangini recently told reporters. "I was talking to a friend of mine who still played, and he makes the point about training camp that coaches want to kill you. His whole point was that it does at some point become counter-productive." Mangini is trying to keep all sessions under two hours. He went with the 5:45 p.m. practice time to get out of the heat, and when players walk off the field from those they're done for the day. All meetings are now completed before late workouts. "What I've tried to do is look at the different things that I thought have been very successful," Mangini said. "It's been an evolution, going through and talking to people and trying to figure out what other stuff like that you can have."
