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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Ryan Fitzpatrick looked out at the practice field and couldnt help but get excited.After a terrific season a year ago, the New York Jets offense is expecting even bigger things. And, with Matt Forte now teamed with Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker, its enough to make a quarterback downright giddy.I feel pretty good about it, Fitzpatrick said Wednesday. It was fun out in practice today, just to have everybody out there running around, with all the different options and guys. Just continue to work on that communication, but thats what were looking forward to.The Jets, who open at home against Cincinnati on Sunday, finished 10th in overall offense last season, when Fitzpatrick set a franchise record with 31 touchdown passes. Meanwhile, Marshall set franchise bests with 109 receptions, 1,502 yards receiving and 14 TD catches. New York also set team marks with 5,925 net yards and 4,057 yards passing.They were all surprisingly gaudy numbers for an offense that was one of the most improved in the league. Under Chan Gailey, the Jets leaped 12 spots in total offense. New York also finished third in red-zone efficiency (66 percent) after being last in the NFL at 36.2 percent in 2014.I think that we have more confidence going into the year this year than maybe we did last year, Fitzpatrick said. I think maybe we expect more out of ourselves, but that being said, weve got to go out there and do it, and its hard to look ahead or look at the entire season and put some goals on it.I think it really just starts with Sunday and setting the tone, and really trying to figure out what kind of football team were going to be this year.A lot will depend on how Fitzpatrick, who was re-signed to a one-year, $12 million deal just before training camp started, performs this season.Some fans and media still look at him as the ultimate journeyman, a quarterback who has been with six teams in his 12-year career. Others think perhaps he has finally found a home with the Jets, operating Gaileys offense efficiently -- just as he did during their days together in Buffalo from 2010-12.It certainly helps that Fitzpatrick has two star receivers in Marshall and Decker, who have a full year of experience playing together.I think, at least on offense, were more familiar with each other, Fitzpatrick said. I think that we have a better idea of everybodys strong points and weak points. And I just think everybodys going to have a better understanding of the system and what were trying to get done.Adding a playmaking running back such as Forte, whos just two years removed from setting an NFL record with 102 catches, is another reason for optimism.The things that I saw from afar, Im now seeing them and I cant wait to get into the live action, Fitzpatrick said of Forte. I just think the overall awareness and the experience that he has playing the game of football, he kind of fits right into that huddle.The Jets also have three speedy rookie wide receivers in the mix with seventh-rounder Charone Peake and undrafted Robby Anderson and Jalin Marshall. The trick for Fitzpatrick will be trying to spread the ball around.The problem isnt when were in the huddle, its when were breaking the huddle, Fitzpatrick joked. They think theyve all learned from when Brandon, when we break the huddle says, `Hey, Ill be open. Theyve all, like, taken that cue.Marshall re-established himself last season as one of the best receivers in the league, routinely coming up with big catches. He insists statistics are of no concern to him these days.Neither he nor Fitzpatrick has ever played in the postseason. They both want that to change. After coming within a victory of getting to the playoffs in 2015, Marshall heads into this season with what he said is a lot of anxiety.I just want to win, Marshall said. I dont care about the big play. I dont care about making `SportsCenter. I dont care about contracts and all of that. At this point in my career, I just want to win. Im not happy. Im not happy until I win. Im not excited about, `Oh, come Sunday, the flyover. Well, Sunday will be special because its 9/11, obviously, but when the clock hits zero, where do we stand?And thats what I care about for the rest of my career.Game notes Marshall was limited at practice with sore hips, but isnt concerned about his availability for the opener. ... LB Jordan Jenkins (calf), QB Bryce Petty (right shoulder) and CB Darryl Roberts (foot) did not practice. LB David Harris (shoulder), DE Leonard Williams (hip) and LB Bruce Carter (shoulder) were limited.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Cheap NMD R2 Trainers . -- Aldon Smith believes he is on the path to being sober for good. Cheap Fake Nmd . But now that hes in the NHL, the Calgary Flames centre showed big improvement in that department by scoring the winner in the eighth round of a 5-4 shootout victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday. http://www.nmdukonlinestore.com/tubular-trainers-outlet-deals.html . 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MANCHESTER, England -- It has been another fraught, headline-grabbing spell away with Englands national team for Wayne Rooney.Once again, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho must pick up the pieces.Rooney is back under Uniteds control after having been forced to apologize for some late-night revelry while on England duty, when he was pictured -- in his England training gear -- looking bleary-eyed at a wedding reception at the team hotel on Saturday.Rooney was criticized by the English Football Associations chief executive, Martin Glenn, for not setting the right tone as England captain, and the strikers conduct has sparked a fresh wave of negative publicity toward a player who has shown erratic behavior on and off the field earlier in his career.Mourinho said Rooney has been hurt by the negativity toward him.Even if you have or if you build a kind of wall around you to try to feel protected from what people write about you or think about you, the comments people make about you, the wall has always points of fragility, Mourinho said. It has always some little holes.And we are not still, we are flesh and blood. So I think it has an effect.Mourinho must be starting to dread Rooney going away with the national team. Two months ago, the United manager said Rooney came back from England duty a different person than when he left after fierce media criticism that he received after his performance in a World Cup qualifying match against Slovakia.Honestly, I think there was a Wayne before the Slovakia-England and a Wayne after Slovakia-England, Mourinho said at the time.Now, Mourinho faces another fight to get Rooney mentally right,, at a time when the striker had got his place back in both Uniteds and Englands team after a spell of poor form.ddddddddddddSometimes (players) come back stronger than when they left us because something positive happens there -- good performances, good results, Mourinho said. Other times, injuries, sometimes big injuries. Other times frustrations because they didnt play, because the result was bad.In this case we know what didnt go well, but the national team is a different chapter and a chapter that is closed now until March.Mourinho suggested that the England management take better care of Rooney next time he is away with the national team. There were reports in the British media that Mourinho felt let down by the FA for allowing Rooney to stay up late and drink alcohol.I learned since I was a kid, if someone lends me something, I have to take care even better than if it was mine, Mourinho said. You know, your friend lent you a pencil, you have to take care of the pencil better than if it was your pencil.So I think when one day if I become a national-team manager, I will try -- try, I am not saying that I will be successful on that -- ... to build something to protect what is not yours.Mourinho also said he feels Rooney has been unfairly singled out for criticism.If you go one by one to see where these 23 (England) players were, the Portuguese coach added, some of them were in worse places than the hotel bar.Rooneys first game back for United is against Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday. ' ' '