Financial details of the contract weren't released.

The 6-foot-5, 260-pound Johnson has 49 tackles and one sack in 38 games with the St. Louis Rams, New Orleans Saints and New York Jets.

Johnson, a native of Lincoln, Neb., entered the NFL as a seventh-round draft pick - 224th overall - of the Jets in 2004. He played in two playoff games with the Jets during his draft year and had three tackles.

Johnson played at the University

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -The clock is running down on a lawsuit by a New York Jets season-ticket holder that seeks millions from the New England Patriots and coach Bill Belichick for ``deceiving customers'' by videotaping opponents' signals.

Carl J. Mayer filed the lawsuit in September that maintained the Patriots' secret videotaping violated the contractual ``expectations and rights'' of Jets ticket holders ``to observe an honest match played in compliance with all laws and regulations.''

But Mayer, a lawy

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -Thomas Jones heard all the talk and refused to let it bother him.

In the months following the New York Jets' dismal 4-12 season, many fans and members of the media insisted running back Darren McFadden would be a perfect fit for a team needing a big-time playmaker.

``Honestly, I never was concerned about it,'' the Jets' starting running back said tersely.

After Oakland selected the Arkansas star with the fourth overall pick - two spots ahead of the Jets - many assumed Jones fel

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -Disgruntled tight end Chris Baker spent most of the New York Jets' minicamp Friday on a stationary bike. There was no backpedalling, though, from his scathing comments a day earlier about his contract dispute with the team.

``I wanted to actually just have it done quietly and just come out here and play and not worry about anything,'' said Baker, who tweaked his back early in the morning practice and was on the bike for the afternoon session. ``I kind of have been forced into this

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -Vernon Gholston's first big test of minicamp came before he even stepped on the field Friday for the New York Jets.

``I've got a lot of catching up to do,'' the sixth overall draft pick said with a smile. ``The first time I walked in there, I barely knew any guys and I had to name them all.''

That's hardly an easy task when there are 85 players on the minicamp roster. It's even tougher when you've missed the last three weeks of organized team activities and the first day of minic

Lawton spent part of the 2006 season on the Colts' practice squad. He played for the New York Jets in 2005.

The Colts have shored up the running back position this offseason, making Lawton expendable.

They drafted Mike Hart from Michigan and got Dominic Rhodes back on the squad. Rhodes spent a season in Oakland after playing his first six NFL

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -Chris Baker isn't happy with his contract, and he made sure everyone knew it on the first day of the New York Jets' mandatory minicamp Thursday.

``If the situation was better, of course I'd want to be here,'' Baker said, ``but the way things are right now, I really don't have the desire to be out here right now at this moment.''

Baker, who has asked to be traded, is disgruntled because he insists the Jets told his former agent, Cliff Brady, before last season that they would look

Brahm had said the stadiums were in Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland, Cleveland and New York City. He admitted that the reference to New York City was intended to indicate Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, N.J., where the New York Jets played the Detroit Lions that day.

The posting added that the stadium explosions would be praised by Osama bin Laden as ``America's Hiroshima'' and spark global conflicts.

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Vanderjagt also lashed out at head coach Tony Dungy and quarterback Peyton Manning following a 41-0 playoff loss to the New York Jets in 2002.

Manning fired back at Vanderjagt, calling him ``our idiot kicker who got liquored up and ran his mouth off a lot.''

After spending the 2007 season on the sidelines, Vanderjagt recently worked out with the Denver Broncos and the Kansas C

NEW YORK (AP) -The New York Jets have hired Scott Cohen for their newly created position of assistant general manager, according to a person with the team.

Cohen will work with general manager Mike Tannenbaum on day-to-day operations, the person said on condition of anonymity Friday night because the team hadn't yet announced the hiring.

Cohen, 39, spent the last seven seasons as Philadelphia's director of pro personnel.

The person with the team also said Jets player personnel director Terry Bradway