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Tebow brought in to spark Jets with his legs more than his arm
Tebow isn't a Jet because New York coveted his passing arm. When the Jets choose to throw this season, Sanchez will deliver it the vast majority of the time. That much is all but certain. But it's New York renewed commitment to the running game, a re-emphasizing of its once-vaunted Ground and Pound attack, that will be the real story of the season in Rex-ville. And how that goes will determine just how much Tebow's role cuts into Sanchez's playing time and whether there will be a quarterback controversy at some point.
After all, it wasn't Tebow's left arm that so memorably beat the stunned Jets 17-13 with a late 95-yard touchdown drive on a Thursday night in Week 11 last season in Denver. As you'll recall, that victory seemed to ramp up Tebow-mania to a new level of frenzy, and it was what Tebow did with his legs that fully got the attention and admiration of Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Tebow had seven carries for 58 yards during the game-winning drive, none bigger than the 20-yard touchdown burst around left end with 58 seconds remaining, when he ripped through a Jets defense that seemed to want no part of a 250-pound runner on that pivotal 3rd-and-4 play.
I'm convinced that play, that touchdown, that galling New York loss, went a long ways toward making Tebow a Jet today. The Broncos improved to 5-5 that night and eventually went to the playoffs with Tebow leading the way. The Jets dropped to 5-5 with the loss and eventually missed the playoffs for the first time in Ryan's three seasons on the job, as their locker room dissolved into dysfunction and their offense lost a good bit of its winning, run-first identity of 2009-10.
"The fact that he beat us and we couldn't defend him, absolutely, that certainly didn't hurt the equation,'' Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum told me the other day, discussing the team's decision-making in the Tebow acquisition. "When the quarterback is a threat as a runner, it's hard to defend. It was a philosophical decision. We want to be a tough team, and be able to be game-plan specific with what Tim does best. It was like adding another club to our bag at a reasonable price. It doesn't mean we always have to use that club, but it's there.''
It's there all right, and how it's used this season is going to receive a bit of scrutiny. Down to a microscopic level. But focusing solely on the Sanchez-Tebow dynamic overlooks the Jets' really big move of the offseason, the hiring of new offensive coordinator Tony Sparano.
The ex-Dolphins head coach was quickly snapped up by Ryan in an attempt to reclaim the type of hard-nosed approach to the running game that helped New York lead the NFL in rushing in 2009 and finish fourth overall in 2010 -- results that coincided with the Jets reaching the AFC title game both years. Last year, under since-departed offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, New York's muddled approach produced a running game that averaged just 3.8 yards per carry (tied for 29th), and only 105.8 yards per game (22nd).
Ryan still doesn't know exactly how his 2011 Jets lost the offensive identity he talked so long and loudly about his first two seasons, but he knows they did. And he's determined to make that a one-year trend, with Sparano's top priority being a restoration of the Jets running game as the foundation of the offense.
"I think we did lose it,'' Ryan said. "Whether it was because we were behind, or what it was, I'm not sure. But that's something that clearly jumped out about last season. We struggled in the preseason running the ball and we struggled early in the season. We finally got it going a little bit as the year went on, but clearly for our team, the best thing for it is to run the football. Or to at least have the ability to run, so that teams know you'd better be careful against us. You'd better defend the run, because if you don't, we will run it. We have to be able to impose our will on defenses with our running game. We have to be able to run the football even when they know we're going to run it. That's when you know you have an excellent football team.''
The Jets, Tannenbaum said, made poor decisions last year in terms of how to best utilize their offensive personnel. This is the modern-day NFL. You have to be able to pass, and pass effectively, to win big. But the Jets convinced themselves that aging receivers Plaxico Burress and Derrick Mason had to have major roles in their offense, and that drew focus and carries away from running backs Shonn Greene, LaDainian Tomlinson and Joe McKnight. With disappointing results.
"We initially went into the season thinking with Derrick Mason and Plaxico that our best personnel was one back, one tight end and three receivers,'' Tannenbaum said. "Over the course of the season we did evolve back to the running game, but at the beginning we kind of felt our best personnel was going in a different direction. In hindsight it wasn't the right decision.''
At a recent Jets training camp practice I attended, it was Sparano's distinctive bellowing voice that dominated the proceedings on the field. Barking instruction, encouragement or criticism, Sparano has everyone's attention at all times. His task is to re-establish the Jets' tough-guy persona, and the ex-Cowboys offensive line coach has enthusiastically thrown himself into the renovation project.
"I understand why Rex hired me and what he's looking for,'' Sparano said. "What we're trying to do here is get a physicality, and a mentality that when people watch us, it's not a case of What are they? They're going to have a pretty clear idea of what we are. A big part of winning in this league is taking care of the football and being able to run the football, particularly in our division, in weather.
"I wasn't here in the past and I'm not really concerned about that part of it. But everything we do, it starts with physicality in the running game. What we want is when people play the New York Jets, they line up against our offense and know it's going to be a physical football game.''
If you don't think Tebow will factor significantly into that return to a style of physicality in the Jets running game, you either haven't been paying attention or you were in a coma and missed all of last season. The threat he poses with his legs and his ability to muscle his way through tacklers is one of the primary reasons New York was interested in his unique and controversial skill package.
And of course, Sparano brings the Wildcat offensive formation that he helped make an NFL sensation back in 2008, when he led the Dolphins to a surprise AFC East title in part by utilizing running back Ronnie Brown in that direct-snap quarterback role. The Jets used receiver Brad Smith effectively in the Wildcat in 2009-10, but he signed with AFC East foe Buffalo in 2011, indirectly opening the door for Tebow this year.
Tebow will get plenty of work in the Wildcat in New York, as well as the read-option formation he thrived in (sporadically) last year in Denver. Earlier indications are that he will be featured in red zone situations mostly, but given his success at times in Denver throwing deep patterns (Tebow had three passes of at least 40 yards in one quarter of the Broncos' wild-card round upset over the Steelers, one more such throw than Sanchez completed all season), I wouldn't be surprised to see him challenging a defense vertically on play-action calls. Second-round receiver Stephen Hill of Georgia Tech is a speed threat who will be asked to stretch the field as a rookie.
"When we made the [Tebow] decision, obviously I talked to [Jets owner] Woody [Johnson],'' Tannenbaum said. "But it was Tony Sparano, Rex and myself in the room. It was a football decision. Coach Sparano had coached him in the Senior Bowl and obviously ran a Wildcat with success in Miami, and Rex from the day he walked in the door as a head coach, with his defensive acumen, always referred to it as 11-man football, where the quarterback is a threat as a runner. So from a football standpoint, I'm looking to my left and I'm looking to my right and for really different reasons, they weren't scared of him.
"For a guy who has three years left on a contract, and may have been the best college football player of all time, we just felt the price of the trade was reasonable and bringing Tim in here could really help our offense.''
The Tebow factor aside, Sparano's main focus in the running game will be coaxing a career year out of Jets lead running back Greene, who despite being productive last season (1,054 yards, 4.2-yard average carry) didn't seem to be able to churn out the big yards at the biggest moments, or take over late in games the way he did during his rookie season of 2009. Greene, who is entering the fourth and final year of his first Jets contract, will have the opportunity under Sparano to prove he's New York's present and future at running back.
Ryan said he didn't think the Jets did a good job of blocking downfield for Greene last season, citing the departure of receiver Braylon Edwards as a contributing factor to that decline. "Braylon was a big part in the way we blocked down field,'' Ryan said. "We actually would motion Braylon in and run behind him, like a tight end. I think you're going to see us get back to that. That's a New York Jet thing. That commitment to blocking downfield. That's going to help Shonn.''
But Sparano makes it sound as if re-energizing Greene's game will be as easy as giving him the ball. Early, often, and religiously. According to Sparano, Greene just needs more work, and he defends his 2011 season by pointing out that Greene averaged 79.1 yards in the season's final 12 games, which Sparano said ranked fourth in the league over that span.
"This guy is a big physical back, and he's built the way I like them, a low-to-the-ground, move-the-pile guy,'' Sparano said. "With Shonn, I have a feeling this guy gets lathered up the more times he touches the ball. He carried the ball a lot in college [at Iowa]. That's the type of back he is. The most important thing I try to talk to him about, because of the way we want to use him, is to make sure you take care of your body. It's a long season, and we're going to use you. That's how we get his game to the next level.''
All of which is music to Greene's ears, with his next contract just around the corner. And the Jets offensive line, which includes the likes of Pro Bowl selections Nick Mangold at center, D'Brickashaw Ferguson at tackle and Brandon Moore at guard, likes the renewed run-first mentality, too. What offensive linemen doesn't love to run block, moving forward instead of backward in pass protection?
"We're a team with a great defense, a physical defense, and a physical-minded coach,'' Moore said. "You want to be able to run the football, and we have the personnel to do that. But saying you're going to Ground and Pound and run the ball doesn't mean you're not going to throw the football. We'll throw it plenty. But to get our identity back of being a physical, tough-minded team, a team with attitude, you've got to be able to run the ball. It's a welcomed change around here. You don't feel tough or play like a tough team if you're slinging the ball all over the place.''
With Tomlinson retired after two seasons in New York, the Jets will ask Joe McKnight to add to his kickoff return duties, filling the speed-back role and posing a receiving threat out of the backfield. And young runners like second-year veteran Bilal Powell and rookie Terrance Ganaway may contribute in complementary roles. It's up to Sparano to find ways to employ them all, giving opposing defenses a host of different looks and packages to contend with in stopping New York's running game.
If the plan holds this season, nobody will be used more creatively than Tebow, New York's high-profile backup quarterback, punt protector and X-factor extraordinaire. But my guess is we'll be talking about his running a lot more than his passing in 2012, and the same might go for the entire Jets offense this year. There seems to be no daylight between Ryan's and Sparano's mentality on the direction New York is headed.
"It's funny, but when we were researching our options at offensive coordinator, Rex and I spoke to Anthony Lynn, our running backs coach, who had been with Tony in Dallas,'' Tannenbaum said. "I said, 'Anthony, in 30 seconds or less, what is Tony Sparano?' He said 'He's Rex Ryan on offense.' And that could not be more accurate. He's tough, he's demanding, he's funny and he's fair.
"Of all the things we did this offseason, I think as much as anything, Tony is going to make a huge difference. Not just on our offense, but our football team, because he sees the game from the eyes of a head coach.''
So it's time to Ground and Pound again in New York. Even if Tebow Time and the back-page circus has arrived, for Mark Sanchez, it's the Jets' recommitment to their running game -- and not his celebrated new teammate -- that might wind up being his best friend.


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The state's Department of Agriculture adopted a Web-based system to conduct inspections of anhydrous ammonia facilities and nurse tanks.
The North Dakota Department of Agriculture, like many state agencies in recent years, has been tasked with additional responsibilities that require more efficient IT operations.
In 2011, a decision by the state legislature moved full authority for anhydrous ammonia facility inspections from the North Dakota Insurance Department to the Department of Agriculture. Before the 2011 decision, authority to conduct the inspections was split between the two departments, according to Jim Gray, the agriculture department's pesticide and fertilizer division director.
Anhydrous ammonia, a type of fertilizer commonly used in farming, is a source of nitrogen. The material must be stored and handled properly since it can be a health hazard, he said.
"Anhydrous ammonia is a product that's stored under pressure, and it can be fairly dangerous if it's inhaled or if people get it in their eyes," said Spencer Wagner, a fertilizer specialist with the agriculture department. "And so there's a lot of engineering that goes into these facilities to make sure there's not a release."
After inheriting the additional inspection workload from the insurance department, agriculture officials needed a more efficient solution for not only completing facility inspections and storing related information, but also for conducting inspections on nurse tanks – portable containers used to haul anhydrous ammonia. Gray said that previously, the Agriculture Department completed its share of inspections on paper forms and stored the information in filing cabinets. The extra workload after 2011 demanded a less cumbersome process. The Department of Agriculture now conducts approximately 65 anhydrous ammonia facility inspections per year.
The department decided to deploy an electronic inspection and investigation system by Kelly Registration Systems. The platform allows authorized staff to input and store inspection data on digitized forms along with supporting documents and photos.
To integrate the insurance department's existing data on prior inspections, Gray said the Agriculture Department received a database from the other department. That database and the Agriculture Department's hard-copy inspection forms were integrated into the new inspection system.
Instead of exploring and testing other systems, Gray said the platform by Kelly Registration Systems was deployed because the department was already using products by the same vendor for other inspections. In 2007, the Agriculture Department worked with the company to create a platform for completing field inspections for the state's pesticide programs. The platform serves as a reporting mechanism, complete with digitized inspection forms and a Web-based platform for managing data.
"That had resulted in some pretty significant gains in the efficiency and use of our resources," Gray said. "So we were looking to create a similar model with the anhydrous ammonia program since we are a very small agency with pretty scarce resources."
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Phone: 514-490-4222
Website: namosrestaurant.com
Licensed: Yes
Credit cards: All major cards
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Open: Weekdays noon-3 p.m., Sun.-Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 5-11 p.m.
Price range: Veggies and cheese $5-$12; meats $7-$19; fish/seafood $7-$40; dessert $4-$9
Namos is a redo of an elegant Greek restaurant that occupied the same corner of Mile End for many years. As Vegera, the spot always had poise, with its table linens, valet parking, flower-filled patio and pricey fish-oriented menu, tucked away from the hoi polloi of Parc Ave.'s Greek row. "Catherine Deneuve ate here every day while she was shooting in town," my film-critic friend said of that era, as we sat down to dinner recently.
The business remains in the same family. It reopened last summer as the more approachable Namos, the menu recast in a casual mezze mode. Call it tapas, shareables or small plates, the flexible format is big with restaurateurs trying to figure out how to adapt to changing market conditions while telegraphing that they're trendy. Namos appears to have shifted its optics in that direction, presumably to attract more customers from the Ubisoft demographic, which goes a long way to sustaining so many of the area's small businesses.
Outreach efforts include a Greek poutine (with kefalotiri) held over from last month's Poutine Week, fish and chips and the recent addition of lunch service. Despite a couple of dishes that dive into the deep end (the swordfish and the catch of the day), most items are less than $20. Not what I'd call cheap, but it's worth noting that a lot of the original refinement remains. Peter Christopoulos, who was cooking when his parents ran the place, is now the owner. The waiter told us that he was the force behind the stoves on the night of my second visit, when three of us had the entire place to ourselves.
The food at Namos is clean and bright, the use of ingredients judicious. Preparations for the most part stick close to just a couple of anchoring elements. So a platter of six or 12 Malpeque oysters is a nice way in — a reminder of the power of simple stuff, simply presented.
There's no getting around the dangerously good zucchini balls, stuffed with pungent feta held in a delicate golden sphere, served atop tzatziki so thick it could stand to attention. A lot of Greek restaurants claim to have the best octopus in town, and the waiter's recommendation here was worth heeding. Served just above room temperature, under salty capers and sharp red onion, it was tender and giving but still springy.
Each dish we ordered showed off a different quality of the cooking. Meatballs, heavily herbed, hefty and moist, in a chunky tomato sauce, demonstrated how homey it can be. Slices of loukaniko, the wonderfully fragrant spiced sausage, came atop exceptional homemade pita bread that was spongy, charred, oiled, herbed, salted and totally alive. Grilled vegetables showed a confident reliance on freshness, whether pleurotte mushrooms or pieces of red pepper with interlaced char marks. A shredded romaine salad called psilokomeni — thinly chopped lettuce with spring onion, dill and a peeling of cheese — looks like a pile of nothing much, but is actually a fluffy green foil to anything that comes off the grill.
For dessert, there are loukoumades. Also known as honey balls, these are blown-up spheres of fried dough, sticky and sweet, that deflate in the mouth.
The meal was full of warm and rich moments, interspersed with soft and fresh moments — nothing shocking, but very satisfying. So it's a shame Namos was so quiet on both visits. That was perhaps emphasized by the décor, which wants nothing more than to be called modern and chic, but comes off cold and lifestyle-y. There's room for improvement on the alcohol front, too: We did OK on the wine side, with a cold Kouros by the glass, but regarding beer, we'd have loved to move past Coors Lite and Corona. As much as the food was delightful, the restaurant experience is maybe not as definable as it could be: somewhere between low-key and upscale, or between then and now.
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Pusses galore: Cats dominate the pet industry
Feb. 22 was Cat Day in Japan, because "two-two" in Japanese can be uttered using an approximation of a sound that cats make. It's a typical pseudo-event, invented by the pet food industry, which is doing quite well by cats. In fact, it's doing better by cats than by dogs if you're talking about growth.
According to the Japan Pet Food Association, about 10.9 million dogs and 9.7 million cats are kept as pets in Japan. The pet-related market, including medical care, is worth about ¥1.4 trillion, but while the parity between the two species as animal companions is about equal, sales of respective food products is increasing more for cats than it is for dogs.
Dog food sales peaked in 2004 at a little more than 490,000 tons and has been gradually dropping ever since. Cat food sales in 2005 was much less, about 271,000 tons, but cats tend to be smaller and thus need less food, and at any rate, sales have been steadily increasing in the meantime. In 2014, the association says that a household with at least one dog spends on average ¥2,884 a month on dog food, while a household with at least one cat spends ¥2,996.
The slight difference can be explained by a number of factors: people with cats are more likely to have more than one animal than do dog owners, and dogs eat anything. Cats' famous finicky tastes means that cat owners will likely buy more food to make sure their pets don't get tired of the same thing.


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Anquan Boldin paced the Ravens in catches (five) and yards (81), but the wide receiver spent more time after the team's 23-20 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday blasting officials for a pass interference assessed to him.
On the offense's first series of the second half, quarterback Joe Flacco appeared to hit Boldin for a 15-yard gain on third down-and-11 from the team's 38-yard line. But an official flagged Boldin for pushing a Steelers defender, negating the play.
Before the ensuing snap, Boldin moved early to earn a false start call and on third-and-26 from the Ravens' 23, Flacco couldn't complete a long pass to wide receiver Jacoby Jones.
Asked about the pass interference call, Boldin smirked before venting about the officials.
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'The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan
Book review: 'The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan
The Best of It
New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove: 270 pp., $24
Contemporary poetry is a bit like visual art. Much of it makes you grab your chin and nod in stumped appreciation — but you wouldn't want to live with it. Kay Ryan's work, however, hangs well no matter where it goes. Clouds, calendars, time, birds, jackrabbits. Everything her eye falls upon takes on a brisk, beautifully complete clarity. Her tidy lines disguise an enormous intelligence and tonal warmth: a ferocious capacity for finding the essence of things.
"The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" reveals that right before our eyes Ryan has become a classic American poet. This should hardly be a surprise; she has served as U.S. poet laureate these last two years. But even though she is often compared to Robert Frost, and for good reason, her work here is a revelation. Beginning with new poems, "The Best of It" is the work of a pastoral poet, comfortable with her own counsel but keenly aware of the cost of self-sufficiency. "No unguent / can sooth / the chap of / abandonment," she writes in "Polish and Balm," a poem about the mystery of a dead woman's objects. "Who knew / the polish / and balm in / a person's / simple passage / among her things."
Few American poets have used the thin line so well, to such mournful effect. James Schuyler's poems concealed within their narrow aperture a lyricist's longing heart; more recently, Lawrence Joseph has found a way to meld the aesthetic rigor of Schuyler with the intellectual spaciousness of Wallace Stevens. Here, we are in different territory altogether. Turning each corner of a Ryan poem, the eye drops to the next solid, well-planked surface, as she guides us closer to the point where collapsing complications are swiftly subverted. The last lines of "Shift" perform this inversion with brutal efficiency.
It's hard for us
to imagine how small
a part we play in
holding up the tall
spires we believe
our minds erect.
Then North shifts,
buildings shear
and we suspect.
Poems like this, with their unfussy symmetries and patient alliterations, give the lie to all the bloodless revolutions that have occurred in American poetry in recent years. Theories are often mere fancy-dancing. To matter, you need to have something to say, wisdom, a point of view. That's an uncomfortable idea in many circles, especially as poetry is so often mistaken for high-priced aphorism, a simplifying wedge. True wisdom, though, never simplifies but rather sees complexity with an unsettling clarity. This is why, when we describe poems by Frost or Dickinson, we reach for the word "eerie": They don't leave us anywhere to hide.
One of the great reliefs of Ryan's work is that she brings us to this point of disturbing clarity without telling too much about, well, herself. There are many poets whose intense intimacy and investigation of the self is their strength — Sharon Olds, Mark Doty, C.K. Williams, D.A. Powell — but Ryan's steely privacy is rare. She gives us access to a different sort of intimacy, an intimacy of the mind. We watch her puzzle and torque; gain purchase on an idea and then let it go with the athletic elegance of Zen thinking. In "Emptiness," she packs centuries of thinking about the American West into eight brief lines.
Emptiness cannot be
compressed. Nor can it
fight abuse. Nor is there
an endless West hosting
elk, antelope, and the
tough cayuse. This is
true also of the mind:
It can get used.
Each line sets up the next, which arrives with a pleasing sense of inevitability because of the repeating internal rhyme (compressed / abuse / endless). As in so much of her work, Ryan keeps it simple. We are not caught off-guard or dazzled by where she has taken us. Plainspoken and clear-eyed, she tells us something we didn't know we knew until we get there ("It can get used"). And all this in eight lines. Few poets know how to compress thought so elegantly, while simultaneously keeping their lines so seemingly loose and vernacular.
"The Best of It," like so many selected collections, does not contain a shadow autobiography. In fact, Ryan is so sure-handed that the book is consistently good, her preoccupations reassuringly perpetual. She loves to study the fallacies of the mind, to watch the eye make mistakes, to pay tribute to the spooky mystery of nature's whole bestiary, from zebras to serpents to osprey, to atomize any kind of transformation into its purest elements.
Spending time with this book can alter the mind. The brevity and sobriety within Ryan's lines have a contagious skepticism to them, leaving us to emerge from her poems feeling not cleansed but quieted. That intense slowing is poetry's great purpose, how it gets us to see. We slow down enough to learn a new language; we learn, all over again, how to see everything from the passage of days to the blur of a hailstorm, which Ryan describes as "A maelstrom / of ferocious little / fists and punches, / so hard to believe / once it's past." Eventually, this too shall pass, "The Best of It" reminds us, like everything.
Freeman is the editor of Granta magazine.


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Apparently this is turning into a regular feature on this site. Carl Crawford hyperextended his shoulder on Tuesday night diving for a ball. Even though he stayed in the game, he was a late scratch from last night's game in Boston. He is listed as day-to-day. Crawford is the sixth regular to miss time this season due to injury, joining Julio Lugo, Rocco Baldelli, Jorge Cantu, Aubrey Huff and Mark Hendrickson. Then again, none of those of those injuries are "significant" according to the guys over at ESPN.com. Check out the image below from the preview for tonight's game, in particular, the section at the bottom labeled "Injury Report"…hmmm?
You would think the D-Rays were the healthiest team in baseball right now
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T&Cs: Enjoy a free pint of Camden Hells when you join our club. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. Offer excludes bank holidays. One voucher per transaction, per visit. Voucher can only be used once. Offer valid for 4 weeks from issuance. Management reserves the right to withdraw offer at any time.