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We have our answer to where Mangini took the team today


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To Florham Park

The access roads are still mud-dusty from the back-and-forth of construction vehicles. The unfinished walls still show recesses and holes where flat panels will go and electric connections have yet to be made. You can still see in between some of the beams from the outside to the back wall of the field house.

But there is paneling up on other parts of the outside of the field house. And there is glass and a finished look to the hallway looking out onto the fields. And one of the fields was being mowed and watered and giving a good impression of being ready for a football team to practice on it.

The Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, N.J., is coming along. And this morning the Jets players and coaches, wrapping up their full-squad training camp with a series of non-practice events, came along in four buses to

get their surprise tour of their soon-to-be new home.

A first impression: They were impressed.

"Very nice," quarterback Chad Pennington said.

"It's cool. It's cool," replied safety Kerry Rhodes.

"It's unbelievable," said head coach Eric Mangini, eager to get his team into its new digs. "It's well-designed

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I drove by it a few days ago, from what I could see the external structure isn't complete on the indoor field, but they're close. Tons of construction veh going in and out everyday, prolly weekends too. A couple of the old buildings there were knocked down last month, there's quite a bit of work still but they're close.

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The enjoyment of the day was somewhat ruined by an impromptu press

conference by Chris Baker.

He spent a half hour complaining that he had to come on the fourth bus with all

the rookies.

Mangini responded by saying it was a misunderstanding by the bus company.

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