Expectations were high for the offensive line this off-season when the Jets made some serious investments, bringing in two former first-round draft picks and Super Bowl winning veterans, G Alan Faneca and RT Damien Woody, to complement G Brandon Moore and the team?s other two first-rounders on the line, LT D?Brickashaw Ferguson and C Nick Mangold. ?A lot of things go into last year,? said Moore. ?I?m not going to go down the list, but all those things, they?ve been corrected this year and upgraded in certain positions, and that?s the reason why maybe we're able to pull out games in the fourth quarter.? ?It?s always little by little,? Mangold said on the jelling of the unit. ?As you go longer, you get a better feeling for the guys you?re around. So that?s why lines that have been together for years typically do pretty well. I think you still work at it even when you?ve been together for a long while.? ?It?s been a couple of weeks ago now that I think we finally clicked it in and we?re starting to do some things,? said Faneca. ?You know, it?s an evolving process. There?s no one point in a game. It may be one point for one phase of what we do, all of a sudden that kicked in. There are different points throughout training camp and the season where things like that kick in.? Read Full Article
