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New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick addresses the media during his press conference at Gillette Stadium on December 12, 2007. BB: Sorry I'm running a few minutes late here this morning. I just got off the conference call [with] New York and you know how those things can run a little long. We're into the Jets and this is a team that's been in a lot of tight games. Obviously they played very well a couple of weeks ago against Pittsburgh when they beat them. There's a lot of new faces. Of course, the quarterback is the most obvious one, but defensively they're playing a lot of people across the board, both in the secondary and in the front seven. [There are] a lot of new players, a lot of rotations, guys playing different positions. Like sometimes [Dewayne] Robertson's at end, sometimes he's at nose. Sometimes [Shaun] Ellis is at outside linebacker, sometimes he's at end. Sometimes [Kenyon] Coleman's on the left, the right and so on and so forth. There's a number of different personnel things that they do. As we know, the Jets are a very explosive team. They can get you on one play in any phase of the game, whether it's a kickoff return by [Leon] Washington, or a blocked kick or a big play pass to [ Jerricho ] Cotchery or [Laveranues] Coles or a long run by [Thomas] Jones or a strip-sack or an interception by [Kerry] Rhodes or one of their pressure defenses where they get a guy coming free and knock the quarterback down, knock the ball lose and all of that. They're explosive, they can turn games around in a hurry, score quickly and they give you a lot to get ready for, so we're going to need all of the time that we can get to try to recalibrate here. I think this is quite a bit different from what we saw in September. Certainly there's some similarities, I'm not saying that, but there's a lot of things that are new. It's been three months and they're doing some things differently that we'll have to prepare for this week and that will be a big challenge for us...

New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini addresses the New England media during his conference call on Wednesday, September 5, 2007. Q: How do you view going into the opening game of your second season? EM: Any time you open up, you've got to look at the unexpected. You've got to expect the unexpected and that's something we've talked a lot about. It was the same situation going into Tennessee last year, where there's been the whole offseason and the teams have had new acquisitions. They've had a lot of time to study things that maybe they like in the league, things that they liked internally but maybe weren't able to get to and with New England is it's such a game-plan specific team that you're going to get something unique to you. Q: Does it make preparing for the season easier having a year to look back on? EM: It's been great for me to be able to go back and review the notes throughout the season last year and be able to experience those things and critically analyze the decisions that were made, both personally and organizationally, then look at it and plan ahead and see where we want to make adjustments. There's been a lot of that over the course of the offseason and leading up into the regular season. Q: Thomas Jones was obviously a big acquisition for you and will be a big part of your offense this season. However, he missed the preseason. Do you feel he's ready for the season having not seen much of him? EM: The one thing that Thomas has been consistent with is that there's not a lot of missed playing time. He's a very tough person and something that we liked, talking to people prior to making the trade, is his work ethic, the same in the weight room as he does on the field and, in this case, with his rehab. So that's what he's doing working at, his rehab, and we'll have to see how it goes later in the week. Q: You have two very talented receivers in Laveranues Coles and Jerricho Cotchery that did a whole lot of things for you last year. What do ...