The Boone Docks

First things first (a stupid expression, actually, as no one ever says, “second things second”).

Right.

So, I’ll start with this announcement. As a sign of the progress of technology (and His Neediness’ desire for page views), Bob Glauber’s 3 p.m. live chat today will be simulcast (blog-ul-cast?) in this space, or so I'm told. In other words, if you click onto my blog at 3, you can chat with Glauber about the Jets, or any NFL topic of your choice. I’ll have my next Jets live chat Friday morning at 11.

But that’s not why you called.

You’ll be reading plenty more about this in tomorrow’s papers, so I’ll keep the Brett Favre/Lions portion of our program brief. Yes, it was the dominant subject of his news conference (see my earlier post on why I just don't see this as a huge deal. Interesting, yes, but far more interesting to Packers fans). As our sports media writer Neil Best so often puts it: Sigh.

Anyway, here was Favre’s opening statement and it’s a pretty good synopsis of what came out of the presser, though he rephrased and added things here and there.

“Matt Millen called me. Matt and I are friends. He was inviting me to come to his place to hunt. I think he lives about an hour from here. But I’m sure his intentions were to fish me for fair information, just ask me how we attacked them (the Lions) last year. We attacked them pretty good. Didn’t give him any game plan. I haven’t been in that offense in over a year.”

Fortunately, David Hutchinson of the Star Ledger was able to get us going down the road of some Jets-specific football questions toward the end. Favre disputed what many, including myself, have said: that he’s been hamstrung a bit with conservative game plans.

“Throwing for 400 yards is great,” Favre said. “Kurt Warner did that against us, but he lost. Numbers are deceiving.”

More.

“I like our game plans. I like the way Shotty calls the games. We have to be more consistent because I can assure you, if you watch the tape like we do, there were plays to be made individually – me included.”

As for speculation that he’s hurt, Favre said that there’s nothing wrong with his arm or body.

“I’m a little sore today but that’s been two days (since the game),” Favre said before smiling. “But I can play today. I could. I tihnk I’ll practice today, too.”

A couple of things from practice…

* Eric Mangini called the injury to Damien Woody a “leg” and the one to Jerricho Cotchery a “shoulder.” That last part is different than what we thought but later at practice Cotchery indeed did not raise his arms above shoulder level. He worked with the first team while we were outside but, interestingly, I received a message (email, text, phone, I really can’t say) from someone who said after the media went inside, Cotchery was on the sideline and David Clowney had replaced him. But please let's remember: it's still only Wednesday.

* Woody was clearly limited as he didn’t participate in the bag agility drill with the rest of the offensive lineman and, during the 35 minutes of practice we were outside, tight end Bubba Franks was nowhere to be found.

All right, Chiefs conference calls coming up shortly. And don’t forget Glauber’s live chat at 3. Deb from New England, good to see you back in the fold in the comments section earlier.