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" type="hidden"> Israel and Hezbollah, Kevin Sites has filed diary pieces from both Israel and Lebanon. His Lebanon diary can be found here.
The border This, theoretically, is what this whole war is about: the border, the so-called blue line between Israel and Lebanon. It is, of course, not blue at all, but a double-thick chain link fence topped with concertina wire.
The fence, I learn later, is electric, but not electrified. It's an important distinction. Electrified means it will shock me if I touch it. Electric means it has electric sensors attached that will let monitors know when someone tries to climb it, cut it or blast through it.
I'm with my fixer, Haggit, a freelance Tel Aviv television producer. We both just stare at it. It is, we both seem to think, somewhat remarkable. On the side where we stand, in Metulla, Israel, there are groves of green apples and reddish nectarines.
On the Lebanese side there are some buildings and houses, including one that is now nothing more than a pile of rubble.
Hezbollah's flag flies just across the border from Israel
Also, from several lampposts and buildings, flapping in a strong breeze, is the yellow and green flag of Hezbollah with its now-familiar logo of an outstretched Kalashnikov rifle. There is also a single Lebanese flag and several posters of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
Haggit has two brothers in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) — one who is active duty and fighting in Lebanon and another who is in a reserve artillery unit that was called up and is now based here in northern Israel.
"I'm really surprised," she says, "to see those flags flying right on the border."
It does seem strange to me too, that the IDF would leave them alone. But this spot, aside from the sound of Israeli artillery and Hezbollah rockets arcing overhead, seems almost completely abandoned.
We cannot stop staring as we walk along the fence line. I joke with Haggit that I'll climb over and get her one of the Hezbollah flags. But then we discover climbing won't be necessary. Here, in front of us, is a large gaping hole cut through both fences.
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Ticket to Tel Aviv I have traveled through Amman's Queen Alia International Airport dozens of times in transit to places of conflict. It was always my final stop before heading into the maelstrom of violence that was and, unfortunately, still is, " type="hidden"> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web
Most times the procedure is routine. This time, however, at least for me, it feels very different.
I've just returned from reporting from south Lebanon and now I'm heading to cover the other side of the story: Israel.
With so many Lebanese taking refuge in Jordan from the war, anti-Israeli emotions here are particularly high.
Jordan and Israel signed a peace deal in 1994. They have diplomatic relations and until recently, Israeli tourists traveled to Jordan to visit Petra or the Sinai in Egypt. But while Royal Jordanian Airlines still flies to Tel Aviv, few Israelis are making the trip, realizing they might be less than welcome.
We knew this process to take this short journey, a 45-minute flight, was going to be uncomfortable. Passing through the first security point, the guards, I know, always ask where you are going.
"Tel Aviv," I say softly, hoping not to arouse the attention of fellow passengers behind me. The guard just looks at my passport and raises his eyebrows before handing it back to me.
Because of all the technical equipment I carry, I'm always yellow-carded by airport security screeners who also ask me where I'm going. While one of the officers goes through my bag, I await the question and what I will assume will be a lengthy interrogation and dissection of my gear once I say, "Tel Aviv."
But after a cursory shuffling of items from one compartment to another he gets distracted and waves me through. A rare, small gift from the travel gods.
I still have to pick up my prepaid ticket at the Royal Jordanian ticket counter, though, and instead of saying my destination I simply hand the woman behind the glass partition my passport and confirmation numbers. After inputting the keystrokes on the computer, she prints out the ticket and finally looks at it.
"Tel Aviv?" she asks loudly. "Tel Aviv!" I just nod as she tosses the ticket onto the counter near my open hand.
There aren't any incidents at immigration and I walk to my gate and sit with the others waiting to board — a group of Korean Christians and young adult Israelis returning from a trip to Asia. But as I board the plane, the flight attendant looks at me scornfully and will not return my greeting.
After the flight, at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, I get flagged for additional questioning at immigration. I knew this would happen, as it usually does here. My American passport is filled with entry and exit visas to Iraq. Because of the mix of civilian and military flights I've taken there, the stamps don't always match.
The Israelis are quick to spot them, but after a short Q&A session with a more senior officer, I'm cleared to go.
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Proportionality, asymmetry Two words, common in diplomacy, have now entered the mainstream lexicon: proportionality and asymmetry.
This is their application in this war, first in the form of a commonly asked question: Is Israel's all-out offensive in response to Hezbollah's cross-border raid, kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing others, proportional? The second application is a concept. This is an asymmetrical conflict in which a state, Israel, is fighting a conventional war against a guerilla force, Hezbollah, armed and supplied by other states, " type="hidden"> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web
" type="hidden"> Syria and Iran, but which is based in a host state, Lebanon.
These words have particular significance as well, for news organizations covering this conflict. Is our coverage response proportional to this asymmetrical conflict?
Most large media companies have reporters on both sides of the border simultaneously, allowing their coverage to ping-pong back and forth from one front line to the other.
The Hot Zone has only me to cover both, so I must do them one at a time. And then the question becomes, how much time or how many stories for each side? While I was in Lebanon, many readers responded with seething e-mails about the "one-side reporting" from Lebanon. Why, they asked, weren't we showing the Israeli side? Similarly, as I begin reporting from Israel, readers ask me how I can cover a grass fire started by a Katyusha rocket in northern Israel when southern Lebanon was being turned into rubble.
Surely, there is no question that a civilian death is no more or less tragic when caused by Israeli air strikes than Hezbollah rockets. But the real dilemma for myself and other journalists is, how do we factor the numbers in?
Should Lebanon get more coverage because that is where the most deaths and injuries occurred, as well as the majority of structural damage? Or, in war, are all things equal as far coverage of opposing forces?
To me, the answer is elusive while its pursuit is dizzying.
It was extremely difficult to see the death and destruction caused on the Lebanese side by Israeli air strikes and artillery. To see children killed or maimed by the world's most high-tech weaponry is not a lasting image I would wish on anyone.
Also, Lebanon, as a nation, seemed to have turned a corner away from its history of conflict and was headed toward renewed peace and prosperity before the fighting started.
But now, here in Israel, it's just as easy to see the fear, death and injury caused by ball-bearing laden Hezbollah Katyusha rockets, fired haphazardly by the hundreds at civilian population centers, forcing people here, just like in Lebanon, to huddle in shelters or flee to safer ground.
This evening a Katyusha has struck a high school in the Israeli border city of Kiryat Shimona. It is, according to the school's principal, the third time the school has been hit, although no one has been injured there yet.
Proportional? Asymetrical? The terms mean little to the majority of Israelis, who according to most polls supported the offensive against Hezbollah, even though they didn't expect it to unfold like this.
"We are fighting for the survival of Israel," Sam Seidner, the father of a wounded Israeli soldier, tells me later at a hospital in Haifa. "When have the Jews ever felt secure?"
Indeed, it is a sentiment I hear over and over throughout Israel, whether talking to civilians, soldiers or those who, at this moment of conflict, happen to be both.
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"Emergency Call Up Order 8 — this is a rare animal that is both particular and peculiar to Israeli society," says Lior Taylor, a major in the IDF reserves, referring to the summons that took him from his job and family and sent him to war in Lebanon for the second time.
"It's understood," he says, that Israel doesn't use the call up order "for superfluous reasons. If you get one, the gravity of it makes the switch (from civilian to soldier) for you."
For 38-year-old Taylor, that switch had to come fast. As an operations officer for his infantry battalion, he has had to fight Hezbollah guerrillas on the ground, not with air strikes or artillery.
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Taylor says the terrain is the same this time around, but Hezbollah has some of the best weaponry in the world, including American-made anti-tank TOW missiles.
He says Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said Israel is like a cobweb — that it looks like a trap, but if you touch it, it falls apart.
Taylor says Israel can't afford to let that perception stand.
"It's not an easy moment," he says of being called up for this war. "It's a defining moment in your life. It will be the difference between the past, future and everything in between."
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The common mythology of death On a small hilltop under an elm tree at the Nachsolim Kibbutz, Ya-ar Ben Giat, a 19-year-old soldier, is being laid to rest.
He was killed in south Lebanon on August 12, along with 24 other IDF soldiers, in the worst single day of fatalities for Israel since the month-long offensive began.
Ironically, he is buried just one day before the cease-fire halting the 34-day conflict will take hold.
It is, despite the sadness of the occasion, a beautiful and serene place to be buried, only a few hundred yards from the gently breaking waves of the Mediterranean.
From my fixer Haggit, I learn that there is an iconic dimension to the death of a young soldier in Israel. Countless films have been made romanticizing the sense of sacrifice and loss, as well as the concept of the young soldier now ageless for the rest of time.
I can't help but thinking how similar it is, in some ways, to the mythology I witnessed in Iran toward their own war martyrs, with their young images, frozen in time, carved into the stone slabs covering their graves.
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The people suffer In Haifa, after the cease-fire has gone into effect, I meet an Arab Israeli named Haj Assad in a park. Haj is a plumber and has brought his two daughters out to play after they've been cooped up inside for more than a month out of fear of Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets, which twice landed in their neighborhood.
I wonder if Assad has mixed feelings about the war, especially since, like many Israeli Arabs, he has family members who live Lebanon.
I ask him what the people in his neighborhood think of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nassrallah. Considering the taut emotions resulting from this war, the wisdom and clarity of his answer take me a little by surprise.
"It's not about Sheik Nasrallah," he says. "He's a leader and like other leaders, like those in the Israeli government, make decisions away from the people, without really thinking about them. The people are only abstractions to them. But when you start a war it's really the people that suffer."
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The rabbit hole Back at the border, the hole in the fence is the rabbit hole I can't resist. It's not some kind of danger dilettante's thrill, but just the niggling concept that I had reported from the war on that side of the border only a few days earlier. Why did I have to be kept on some dividing line now?
Kevin Sites finds an area of the Israel-Lebanon border to be surprisingly desolate» View
Perhaps by crossing the border, entering this no-man's land, there might be a clue to finding that elusive sense of balance necessary to cover this conflict fairly and objectively.
As I crawl through, I begin to wonder if this is such a wise choice. Hezbollah could have easily left snipers in some of the surrounding buildings, or maybe an IDF patrol could mistake me for a guerrilla fighter carrying an rocket propelled grenade launcher rather than a digital camera.
I walk along the rubble feeling vulnerable, but also, for a moment, exactly in the middle, no longer bound by the physical constraints of being on one side or the other.
Honestly, in the short period of time in this no man's land, I didn't find much, except this:
On a wall next to the pile of rubble on the Lebanese side, a strange and fitting piece of graffiti is written in English with a missing vowel, "To Be or Not To B."
Regardless of the intent of the writer, it is, I realize later, the question that Lebanon and Israel both grapple with.
Will Lebanon's fragile, multi-faceted democracy survive the consequences of not being ready or able to disarm Hezbollah's militia?
It is also the question Israelis have had to consider while looking north toward this wall, knowing that behind it was a guerilla force aligned with Iran, a country whose president has called for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth.
So the balance might then be found at last in an equality of fear.
The question now becomes, will that mutual fear be a catalyst for more war, or for finally taking significant steps toward lasting peace?
What Is the Latest Thing to Be Discouraged About? The Rise of Pessimism
By ADAM COHEN
Published: August 28, 2006
The early stages of the Iraq war may have been a watershed in American optimism. The happy talk was so extreme it is now difficult to believe it was sincere: “we will be greeted as liberators”; “mission accomplished”; the insurgency is “in the last throes.” Most wildly optimistic of all was the goal: a military action transforming the Middle East into pro-American democracies.
The gap between predictions and reality has left Americans deeply discouraged. So has much of what has happened, or not happened, at the same time. Those who believed New Orleans would rebound quickly after Hurricane Katrina have seen their hopes dashed. Those counting on solutions to health care, energy dependence or global warming have seen no progress. It is no wonder the nation is in a gloomy mood; 71 percent of respondents in a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll said the country is on the wrong track.
These are ideal times for the release of “Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit,” by Joshua Foa Dienstag, a U.C.L.A. political theorist. Mr. Dienstag aims to rescue pessimism from the philosophical sidelines, where it has been shunted by optimists of all ideologies. The book is seductive, because pessimists are generally more engaging and entertaining than optimists, and because, as the author notes, “the world keeps delivering bad news.” It is almost tempting to throw up one’s hands and sign on with Schopenhauer.
Pessimism, however, is the most un-American of philosophies. This nation was built on the values of reason and progress, not to mention the “pursuit of happiness.” Pessimism as philosophy is skeptical of the idea of progress. Pursuing happiness is a fool’s errand. Pessimism is not, as is commonly thought, about being depressed or misanthropic, and it does not hold that humanity is headed for disaster. It simply doubts the most basic liberal principle: that applying human reasoning to the world’s problems will have a positive effect.
The biggest difference between optimists and pessimists, Mr. Dienstag argues, is in how they view time. Optimists see the passing of time as a canvas on which to paint a better world. Pessimists see it as a burden. Time ticks off the physical decline of one’s body toward the inevitability of death, and it separates people from their loved ones. “All the tragedies which we can imagine,” said Simone Weil, the French philosopher who starved herself to death at age 34, “return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.”
Optimists see history as the story of civilization’s ascent. Pessimists believe, Mr. Dienstag notes, in the idea that any apparent progress has hidden costs, so that even when the world seems to be improving, “in fact it is getting worse (or, on the whole, no better).” Polio is cured, but AIDS arrives. Airplanes make travel easy, but they can drop bombs or be crashed into office towers. There is no point in seeking happiness. When joy “actually makes its appearance, it as a rule comes uninvited and unannounced,” insisted Schopenhauer, the dour German who was pessimism’s leading figure.
As politicians, pessimists do not believe in undertaking great initiatives to ameliorate unhappiness, since they are skeptical they will work. They are inclined to accept the world’s evil and misery as inevitable. Mr. Dienstag tries to argue that pessimists can be politically engaged, and in modest ways they can be. Camus joined the French Resistance. But pessimism’s overall spirit, as Camus noted, “is not to be cured, but to live with one’s ailments.”
President Clinton was often mocked for his declarations that he still believed “in a place called Hope.” But he understood that instilling hope is a critical part of leadership. Other than a few special interest programs — like cutting taxes on the wealthy and giving various incentives to business — it is hard to think of areas in which the Bush administration has raised the nation’s hopes and met them. This president has, instead, tried to focus the American people on the fear of terrorism, for which there is no cure, only bad choices or something worse.
Part of Mr. Bush’s legacy may well be that he robbed America of its optimism — a force that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other presidents, like Ronald Reagan, used to rally the country when it was deeply challenged. The next generation of leaders will have to resell discouraged Americans on the very idea of optimism, and convince them again that their goal should not be to live with their ailments, but to cure them.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 — On the elegant office set representing the headquarters of Ari Gold’s new palatial Hollywood talent agency, Doug Ellin sat in the glass-walled ersatz conference room, about where the fictional über-agent Ari might sit, talking about the utterly unexpected phenomenon of the series he created, HBO’s “Entourage.”
“I do not say this arrogantly, but people in this town are talking about the show,” Mr. Ellin said. “I was sitting in a restaurant this week and these three people are talking, and literally I hear this one guy say to another guy, ‘Stop talking about “Entourage” already.’ ”
Mr. Ellin, also an executive producer of the show, doesn’t want anyone to stop talking about “Entourage,” and neither does HBO. The series, about a young movie star and his three hanger-on friends, wrapped up its latest batch of episodes last night (though of course that last episode will be repeated on HBO and its various channels all week). The show has become the subject of more and more fascination among viewers, who have been lamenting in Internet chat rooms and blogs what feels like a too-short season. (There were 12 episodes this summer as opposed to last season’s 14.)
It has also become the object of greater affection at HBO, which, like Ari and his agency, needs a new hot property in the worst way.
Mr. Ellin said he had picked up that message from HBO executives: “They say: ‘We love you. Keep doing it.’ They will call and say: ‘Are you O.K.? You tired? Are you happy? Do you think you can do this many episodes?’”
“This many” means as many as Mr. Ellin and his staff and cast can churn out in the next 12 months. Even as this summer’s season was winding down, Mr. Ellin and his cast were on the set working on the eight episodes HBO had ordered in addition to the 12 to 13 tentatively scheduled for next summer. The eight episodes were intended to bring the show back as soon as January, paired with the supreme HBO attraction, “The Sopranos.”
Now, in part because of a leg injury to “The Sopranos” star James Gandolfini, that show will not be back until later, perhaps March. When it returns, Mr. Ellin was told, HBO would like to schedule “Entourage” after “The Sopranos,” which will be in its final eight-episode run, the better to expose as many viewers as possible to a show that is looking more and more like the next signature series for HBO.
Carolyn Strauss, the president of HBO Entertainment, has been making that point for months. Before the current “Entourage” season started, she called the series “the future of the network.” The truth is there is not a lot of competition for that designation at the moment. “Sex and the City,” HBO’s first great popular comedy, is long gone. So is “Six Feet Under.” Besides “The Sopranos” a batch of other HBO series are heading into their final seasons. “Deadwood” will have just a four-hour coda next season.
Even though its first season was both exciting and promising, HBO has already announced that “Rome” will have just one more season. HBO managed to talk Larry David into bringing back “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for one more go-round, but that will likely be its last.
The drama “Big Love” won wide critical acclaim in its first season, but its long-term prospects remain uncertain. Which leaves “Entourage,” a show that has clearly achieved a central goal for a series on HBO, a pay channel that depends on people feeling that they can’t afford not to pay the monthly fee: “Entourage” gets people talking.
Mr. Ellin said even his own friends had become so involved with the series that “they would rather hang out with Kevin Connolly than with me.” Mr. Connolly plays Eric Murphy, best friend and manager of the matinee idol Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), the hot young actor in Mr. Ellin’s fictional Hollywood.
The signs of the “Entourage” phenomenon are growing. The cast members are recognized everywhere. Emmanuelle Chriqui, who plays Sloan, a supporting character, was instantly mobbed when she went to a bar in North Carolina this summer. Joe Kernan, the morning anchorman of the business cable channel CNBC, confused many in the news media when he jokingly reported that first weekend grosses for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel had broken the record set by “Aquaman,” a fictional film starring Vincent Chase.
Mr. Ellin noted that references to Johnny Drama, Vince’s brother (played by Kevin Dillon), and his catchphrase, “Victory!,” had become all but standard fare on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
“They’re always saying: ‘Victory!’ ” Mr. Ellin said of the sports anchors. “Or when Johnny Damon hits one for the Yankees: ‘Johnny Drama: Victory!’ ”
Still, audience totals, the tangible evidence of a show’s success, are not quite there yet. This season “Entourage” has averaged about 2.6 million viewers for its Sunday premiere showing at 10 p.m., up from about 1.9 million last year. Significantly, it is a bump up from what “Deadwood” scores at 9, about 2.1 million viewers.
But placed next to HBO’s ratings monsters, like “Sex and the City,” which reached more than 10 million viewers for its finale, and “The Sopranos,” which has gone as high as 13 million, “Entourage” still seems to be playing in a lower league.
Mr. Ellin says the comparisons are not completely valid. “I think the numbers tend to be silly for this show,” he said. “I know they say ‘The Sopranos’ gets 10 million or whatever. And listen, ‘The Sopranos’ is the greatest show in the history of television. But I still think most people watch that show by themselves. I think people gather to watch our show. They watch at parties. They also steal it. They get it online.”
He added that he believed “the right people” were watching the show, meaning not only that it has a younger audience profile than most other HBO shows, but also that it has been embraced by Hollywood. Certainly “Entourage” has had little trouble landing celebrities for cameos as themselves, including Scarlett Johansson and Jimmy Kimmel, and the directors James Cameron and Paul Haggis.
Even Ari Emmanuel, who heads the Endeavor Agency and is the obvious model for Ari Gold (and who represents both Mr. Ellin and the show) has no objections to Jeremy Piven’s over-the-top, widely celebrated portrayal of Ari Gold. Maybe only the producer Robert Evans, whose credits include “The Godfather,” has taken offense. A report in The Daily News last week said he was upset by a new character, Bob Ryan, played by Martin Landau, who seems to be a washed-up producer.
Mr. Ellin disavowed basing the character on Mr. Evans. He said: “Bob Evans is still out there working successfully, lining up films. Martin’s character has not been doing that for a long time.” He acknowledged that one reason the connection is being made is that the series used Mr. Evans’s real home as the character’s home in one scene.
This is an occupational hazard of a series about Hollywood that uses so many Hollywood people. Initially, Mr. Ellin said, he thought he would be mainly telling stories about “a day in the life of these guys.” But he was stunned by how involved viewers became with Vince’s career path.
“Now people are dissecting the plots and some people are saying this episode didn’t move the plot forward,” he said. The sudden downturn in Vince’s movie prospects set off all kinds of concerns. “All my friends were calling me this season saying, ‘I feel so bad for Vince,’ ” Mr. Ellin said. “I’m like: He’s out of work for three weeks. He just made $5 million. Why do you feel bad for him? Feel bad for me. I’m working seven days a week.”
That schedule is not likely to let up, given HBO’s expectations for the series. Mr. Ellin will wrap the next eight-episode run next week. Then he said he might take three or four weeks off before he begins to write episodes for the next run.
“We’ll see how I’m doing,” he said. After that, HBO would like as many as 15 or 16 for the following summer, unless the show is moved to a higher-profile midwinter run. How long does Mr. Ellin believe he can keep telling stories about four guys from Queens living the fast life in Hollywood?
“I think you can keep doing the Hollywood stories,” he said. “But this show could be another ‘Sex and the City.’ We could do a season about their relationships. We could have Vince take a year off and they could go live in the Hamptons.”
Pennington is No. 1 QB; Martin to start on sidelines Associated Press
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Jets quarterback Chad Pennington won the starting job Tuesday, but he will be missing a key member of the offense when the regular season starts.
Running back Curtis Martin will start the year on the physically-unable-to-perform list with a lingering knee injury after missing all of training camp. Coach Eric Mangini made both announcements, which seemed to be foregone conclusions.
"That consistency I've been looking for has been there, his presence, his ability to move the team his leadership, all those things I've been looking for, he's done an outstanding job and it's clear to me he should be the starter and he will be." Coach Eric Mangini on QB Chad Pennington
Pennington, coming off two major shoulder injuries, was in a four-man competition to regain the job that was his before he got hurt. The move comes over 10 months after he underwent his latest operation on his right rotator cuff, and a triumph for the hardworking Pennington, whom many thought might never start again.
He took control early in camp, outshining Patrick Ramsey, Kellen Clemens and Brooks Bollinger. Pennington started both preseason games he played in after missing one to go home to Tennessee to be with his ailing father.
Ramsey, Clemens and Bollinger are now competing for the backup job. Pennington won't play in the preseason finale against Philadelphia on Friday night, but will be under center Sept. 10 against Tennessee.
"It's become really clear to me he's distinguished himself in the way I was looking for," Mangini said. "He's made great progress in the preseason, especially over the last couple weeks.
"That consistency I've been looking for has been there, his presence, his ability to move the team his leadership, all those things I've been looking for, he's done an outstanding job and it's clear to me he should be the starter and he will be."
Martin underwent surgery in December but has been slow to recover. He was placed on the PUP list before training camp started so he could continue to rehab, but Mangini said there hasn't been enough progress for him to start practicing.
The 33-year-old Martin, No. 4 on the NFL's all-time rushing list, will be eligible to return in Week 6 at the earliest.
"He's really worked as hard as you can possibly work and we've worked as hard as we possibly can work to hopefully get him ready for opening day," Mangini said. "It's just became clear that's not an option. You have now this window for him to keep working and for us to keep working together to achieve our objective and get him back on the field as quickly as possible."
Knowing Martin wouldn't be ready, the Jets traded for San Francisco running back Kevan Barlow last week. Barlow, Derrick Blaylock and Cedric Houston are expected to shoulder the load of the running game.
Mangini also said Trey Teague was taken off the PUP list and added to the active roster. Teague hurt his ankle during offseason workouts in the spring.
