OL Nick Mangold (Jets pro-bowler)

[Buckskin86]

November 28, 2008
Favre Praises Jets? Linemen
By Greg Bishop

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. ? During his weekly news conference, quarterback Brett Favre was asked to detail the strengths of each of his offensive linemen, a group that includes, from left to right, D?Brickashaw Ferguson, Alan Faneca, Nick Mangold, Brandon Moore and Damien Woody.

What follows is Favre?s answer to the question, detailed in a way that only Favre could.

ON MANGOLD I?ve played with some very good centers over my career. Nick has the chance to be the best I?ve ever played with. Athletically speaking, he?s by far the most athletic. Frank Winters I played with, who was my roommate for 12, 13 years, is going to kill me for saying that, because he claims he?s still the best athlete. Nick is very bright and has the right mentality. It starts with the center and it works its way outward. He has all the tools.

Favre Praises Jets’ Linemen - The Fifth Down Blog - NYTimes.com

[OregonBuckeye]

Doesn't get much better than that.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Link

JET HIS PAL FOR DAY


Wednesday, December 03, 2008 By TOM SHORTELL
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER


UNION CITY - When 6-year-old Donovan Sanchez walked into Veterans Memorial Elementary School yesterday morning he had more than his homework in tow.
The 6-foot-4, 300-pound behemoth standing next to Donovan was Nick Mangold, starting center for the New York Jets.
"I was excited," said Donovan, one of 34 children to win the National Football League's Take a Player to School sweepstakes.
Wearing a Jets jersey when Mangold picked him up at his house, Donovan showed the football player a drawing that showed him dreaming about becoming a professional football player.
"It's neat because I did the same thing. I had a Brett Favre jersey at home," responded Mangold, who now snaps the ball to the football legend. "I had the same dreams, and it's working out."

Continued............

[BB73]

Congrats to Nick on making the Pro Bowl!

nfl.com/probowl

[NFBuck]

Originally Posted by BB73

Congrats to Nick on making the Pro Bowl!

[HineyBuck]

Not bad for a guy who just wanted to be AJ Hawk's pool boy.

Congrats Nick!!

[Rookie]

Originally Posted by HineyBuck

Not bad for a guy who just wanted to be AJ Hawk's pool boy.

Congrats Nick!!

Is that job still open? I'd like to put my name in the mix.

Congratz Nick!

[Buckskin86]

good article on Nick...

Jets? Mangold Lends a Bare Hand on Offense



Jets center Nick Mangold said he did not wear gloves because he liked the feel of the ball, adding, ?But I?m an idiot.?

Bill Kostroun/Associated Press

?I don?t wear gloves,? he said Thursday. ?I want to believe it?s because I like feeling the ball. But I?m an idiot.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/sp...r=1&ref=sports

[BB73]

Not a bad article for the NY Times, but I guess 2002 through 2004 equals 1 year together.

No one questioned his snapping when he was a three-year starter at Ohio State ? where he reconnected with Nugent for a year

[Tlangs]

Originally Posted by BB73

Not a bad article for the NY Times, but I guess 2002 through 2004 equals 1 year together.

I'm surprised this error got through the NY Times fact checkers. They are the best in the business at checking facts.

[BuckeyeBill]

Originally Posted by Tlangs

I'm surprised this error got through the NY Times fact checkers. They are the best in the business at checking facts.

That's the problem, they can check the facts all right. No one said anything about correcting the errors, however.

[Buckskin86]

Jets center Mangold eager to run ball with RexBY ERIK BOLAND | erik.boland@newsday.com
January 29, 2009

TAMPA, Fla. - Nick Mangold's ears perked up immediately. The Jets center took notice of Rex Ryan's "We're going to the White House" opening statement Jan. 21, but there was another Ryan line that Mangold latched onto.

Which was: "The message to the rest of the league is, 'Hey, the Jets are coming, and we're going to give you everything we've got, and that's going to be, I think, more than you can handle."

Mangold smiled.

"To me, when someone says something like that, I instantly go to the run game," he said yesterday at the Tampa Convention Center. "And as an offensive lineman, I love running the ball, and luckily with T.J. [ Thomas Jones] and Leon [Washington], those are fantastic. When he says the Jets are coming, I figure the Jets are running it. That's what I immediately thought of when I heard that."

Mangold wasn't at the Jets' facility when Ryan was introduced, but he watched on line from home in Centerville, Ohio. Mangold was in Tampa to publicize next week's Pro Bowl, in which he will play for the first time.

Mangold went back to Ohio shortly after his season ended, but he has kept up with most of the Jets' offseason news, including some made by an anonymous Jet who said Brett Favre had been a "distant" presence in the locker room.

Mangold took issue with the perception that Favre caused any dissension.

"We had a good joking and playful banter, but at the same time, he's 39 and I'm 24 , and I'm not expecting him to come over and get a game of Halo in right after practice," Mangold said, referencing the video-game series.

"So I knew that there's a difference there. This isn't a guy I came in with like Brick , where we were in the Senior Bowl, the Combine and get drafted together by the same team. I expect different things from Brick than I would with Brett coming in. It's age, experience and all those things, not ."

Jets center Mangold eager to run ball with Rex -- Newsday.com

[Buckskin86]

March 27, 2009
Reviewing Jets? Offensive Line: Mangold Is a Surprise
By KC Joyner

The Football Scientist, KC Joyner, is a Fifth Down contributor. His latest book, Scientific Football 2009, is now available for pre-order.

One of the central studies I will be doing for every team in Scientific Football 2009 is a thorough look at run blocking metrics. I track a variety of metrics on every rushing play, but from an individual player analysis standpoint, two metrics are key: Point of Attack (POA) block win percentage and Yards Per Attempt (YPA).

The full method for putting these metrics together is a bit too long for this format (it is fully explained in Scientific Football 2006 and will be covered in detail again in SF 2009), but in a nutshell what I am looking for is which offensive players were blocking which defensive players at the point of attack of the run.

For example, when a team runs the ball, I don?t just track which side of the line the run was made. I also track what type of play was run (i.e. off-tackle, trap, sweep, dive, etc.) and what hole the runner went through. I then review whose blocks were responsible for creating the hole (or not creating the hole, whichever is appropriate) and how many yards were gained on the play.

These studies always yield interesting data, some of which is expected and some not. For example, I just completed Jets blocking metrics, and while we all knew that Nick Mangold had a great 2008 campaign (he was a Pro Bowl alternate), would you believe he had the best numbers of any of the Jets linemen? Check it out:

POA win percentage:

1. Mangold 94.3%

2. Woody 89.5%

3. Faneca 87.8%

4. Ferguson 86.7%

5. Moore 85.4%

YPA

1. Woody 6.4

2. Mangold 6.1

3. Moore 5.8

4. Faneca 5.4

5. Ferguson 4.9

That Mangold graded out so well is a double shock in that centers are usually the weak link of an offensive line and yet he is the strength of this group.

Reviewing Jets’ Offensive Line: Mangold Is a Surprise - The Fifth Down Blog - NYTimes.com

[Buckskin86]

Wifork on Comcast
Posted by Mike Reiss, Globe Staff April 8, 2009

Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork, who is a regular guest on Comcast Sportsnet New England, held an online chat on the station's Web site Tuesday and also was an in-studio guest.

Wilfork's chat can be recapped here -- he was asked early about his contract and chatted briefly about letting the contract "play its course"-- and his studio appearance with Gary Tanguay and Michael Felger can be seen here.

In his online chat, Wilfork called Nick Mangold (Jets) the toughest center he faces. At the Super Bowl, Mangold had similar comments about Wilfork.

Wilfork on Comcast - Reiss' Pieces - Boston.com

[BuckeyeLiger87]

Those two go back to the fiesta bowl when Mangold played a lot as a frosh that game.