The Daily News' war against Jets rages on, even with top writer banned

The Daily News’ war against the New York Jets continues, even with long-time Jets nemesis Manish Mehta having had his credential revoked by the team in August. The Jets believe they have due cause, and when it comes to credentialing people, it’s entirely up to the team. The Jets can let in whomever they darn well please, and there’s really nowhere to complain, including the league office.

But Mehta is still writing and tweeting about the team, even though he’s not allowed at One Jets Drive.

And he had yet another one of his blockblusters, Sept. 3, criticizing the Jets for going with all virtual meetings during training camp.

The headline read, “Jets are NFL’s lone team not conducting in-person meetings.”

The tweet read, “31 NFL teams have in-person meetings between players & coaches. One does not: The Jets.”

After Mehta’s story was published, Daily News reporter Charles McDonald, who is credentialed, took the baton from Mehta and bombarded Gase with questions about having virtual meetings during camp.

McDonald asked coach Adam Gase five questions about this topic during one Zoom press conference. FIVE. One reason McDonald was able to do this is because the Jets don’t call on people for the “next question” on Zoom conferences. Some teams do, some don’t. So a reporter who is so inclined can keep jumping in with questions, as many as desired, as long as he or she is quick on the trigger once the previous answer ends. New York Post sports columnist Mark Cannizzaro is a master at this. He is the Aaron Burr of the press corp. It’s very hard to beat him in a next-question duel.

Here are those five questions, with brief snippets of Gase’s answers (some answers were very long and we don’t want to take up too much space here):

McDonald: Adam, what’s your plan for live meetings during the season? And I was curious, like, why didn’t you guys have in-person meetings during training camp, like other teams around the league?