The Bills quarterback was added to the injury report with an ankle injury, but was able to practice fully. Trent Edwards turned 25 yesterday and has never faced the 39-year-old Brett Favre.

“He can play through a lot,” Edwards said.

In fact, Edwards (above, AP photo) has never even met him.

“When I heard he was going to the Jets I was excited I’d get to play him two times,” Edwards said.

Damien Woody was back at practice today, but the right tackle didn’t elaborate on the personal issue that kept him out on Wednesday and Thursday.

Final injury reports:

Jets: K Mike Nugent (right thigh) and S Eric Smith (head) are out. TE Bubba Franks (hip), LB David Harris (groin) are doubtful. TE Chris Baker (hip) and and LB Cody Spencer (shoulder) are questionable; WR Laveranues Coles (thigh) and WR Jerricho Cotchery (shoulder) are probable.
Bills: G Brad Butler (knee), WR Josh Reed (ankle), and and DE Aaron Schobel (foot) are out; QB Trent Edwards (ankle), S John Wendling (ankle) G Jason Whittle (thigh) and CB Ashton Youboty (foot) are likely.

Brett Favre’s nephew is a quarterback at St. Stanislaus in Mississippi. Reporter Todd Kelly at the Clarion-Ledger down there has more information on this undersized recruit who is poised to bust the state’s single-season touchdown record.

(This photo was taken by Tim Isbell of the Sun Herald)

This is the story Kelly writes:

For a high school football star in Mississippi with such a familiar last name, it’s hardly a surprise that Dylan Favre is creating a stir at quarterback.

Yet even his legendary uncle – the one with 18 seasons in the NFL, three MVP trophies and a Super Bowl ring – didn’t stack up with what his nephew has done in his first two seasons at St. Stanislaus in Bay St. Louis on the Gulf Coast.

Dylan Favre, a 6-foot, 185-pound junior, has completed 190 of 286 passes for 3,156 yards and 38 touchdowns. With Friday’s game at Poplarville and at least one Class 4A playoff game remaining, Favre is four TD passes shy of the state single-season record set by Clifton Davis III at North Panola in 1990.

Read the rest here.

Damien Woody missed his second straight practice for family reasons today, and Jets coach Eric Mangini said he couldn’t go into more details about the nature of the situation.

S Eric Smith, TE Bubba Franks and LB David Harris weren’t in uniform either, although I saw Franks in the locker room earlier and Harris rode the stationary bike. No Smith sighting however and Mangini expressed optimism about the two others playing later this week without mentioning Smith.

Smith sustained two concussions in three weeks, and was taken out of the game last Sunday after a third hit.

The Jets also practiced outside again in the elements—cold and wind. Yesterday it was sleet. Mangini said it was something the Jets needed to get adjusted to.

“The fellows lobbied pretty hard,” Mangini said, “seeing as how we have such a beautiful indoor facility, and we will get there at some point, but I think not right now.”

TE Dustin Keller and OL Rob Turner are two of the players Mangini said might see more time against Buffalo given injuries to Franks and Chris Baker. Keller will be expected to do more blocking, and the first-round draft pick says he’s up for it.

“I just want a chance,” Keller said. “Really, I know eventually that’s going to change.”

The Bills will be a tough opponent, especially since the Jets have had struggled against teams with a losing record.

“It’s good for us to string together a couple wins,” LB David Bowens said, “beat a division opponent regardless of the record, and beat a team that’s got a winning record.

I’ve been silent. As the lone chick on the Jets beat, in my first year, I didn’t want to make a big deal about it. But I’m a loudmouth, so here goes.

Not a fan of the Flight Crew concept.

I don’t like the banner-waving, lady lump-shaking gals in their designer uniforms, which seem to evoke what men’s wear would look like if it was mostly white underwear bursting out of it.

I may be cynical, but the Jets are coming off a huge problem at Gate D, where boozy men respectfully requested that young women lift up their tops. Maybe it wasn’t so polite. Whatever, the story didn’t make the franchise look great.

As a matter of fact, the Jets made a big deal of announcing they had added security to Gate D and that any fan could text security if there was a problem there. The NFL cracked down on revelry as well, changing the rules about revoking tickets for bad behavior and reducing the hours for tailgating.

So this year, the Jets close down Gate D to the Mardi Gras parade — but hey look at that! Nobody has to get out of their seats to see what looks like women with bras popping out of their cutoff vests! And white ruffles under their abbreviated hotpants! It’s right there on the massive jumbotron. What a relief!

Clearly, the Jets noted a need and addressed it. Except that even the people who wouldn’t have sidled over to Gate D during halftime are now subjected to it, too.

It’s not l that I don’t appreciate suggestive grinding, etc. but what I do in my own home is my business! (That’s a joke there, to show I’m not a prude.) But it’s all about the context. I’m sure there are plenty of ticketholders who really, really enjoy the crew. There are even some of my colleagues who get a little glassy-eyed when they walk by. OK, one colleague, but hey, we’re all human.

Although another colleague pointed out that only two of the women on the crew are African-American.

If people buy tickets to the Jets, they are getting them for a football game, and not some gourmet dining, fireworks, entertainment extravaganza.

As long as I can see the scoreboard, the game and the instant replay, that’s exactly what I’m looking for.

Then I can go home and watch MTV.

The YES Network did a little segment in Nick Mangold’s kitchen with D’Brickashaw Ferguson. The two offensive linemen will be on SportsLife NYC this Saturday. I’m thinking they are going to need a bigger portion than what’s in this photo. Which reminds me, when is lunch?

Today was Wednesday at the Fort or as I like to call it, Favreday. It’s the one day a week Brett Favre comes to the podium and gives thoughtful answers to the reporters who holler the loudest.

Eric Mangini got things rolling by saying the teams had talked  about Favre’s turnovers, and not the fluffy apple kind. So the coach said the QB doesn’t have to “hit on 20.”

That blackjack analogy proceeded to take over the day.

“Believe it or not I’m not a gambler,” Favre said. At least not off the field. But on the field his bets haven’t been paying off. The three interceptions last Sunday make it seven picks in three games or, statistically speaking, ouch.

But Brett was measured. In this clip he talks about how he knows he needs to take care of the ball, and that despite the seven INTs in three games, the Jets won two of them.

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Favre admitted that the round robin of receivers in the last few weeks has been an issue aswide receivers  Jerricho Cotchery and Laveranues Coles were each limited with injury, and tight ends Bubba Franks and Chris Baker have missed games.

“They say that all the time, ‘We’re going to play the same way we always do,’” Favre said. “But obviously it’s different, and for me, you know, my back was against the wall. It’s backed into a corner from day one when I got here to not only learn this offense, but to get on the same page with all these guys in a short amount of time.”

(For those of you scoring at home, that’s two Favreisms for the price of one.)

Favre’s nephew, Dylan Favre, is poised to break the Mississippi high schools single-season touchdown record. Our sister paper in Jackson, the Clarion-Ledger, will be doing a full treatment on the young player and we will link to it. In the meantime, here’s part of what Favre had to say about the undersized but prolific college recruit.

“He’s very accurate,” Uncle Brett said. “I don’t think he’s going to be as big as me or have as big an arm, but so what? You don’t throw 30-plus touchdowns and just be okay.”

In other family news, Favre addressed his wife Deanna’s decision to talk about negativity from Lionsgate in the family blog. She said her heart has been heavy with all the things being said about her husband.

“I would stick up for my wife as well,” Favre said. “But it has not lingered, has not distracted me. I hate to say it but I’m used to it.”

Favre also said he’d talked to former Lions president Matt Millen last week and said he didn’t think Millen had done anything wrong.

“Nothing was done illegally,” Favre said. “He doesn’t have to apologize to me.”

Favre also said that, since he’s in the middle of it, this is the hardest thing he’s had to do in football. Between the scramble to learn everything, the stumbles along the way, the media attention and bad vibes out of Green Bay, you can see his point.

“I think it’s probably the toughest challenge up to this point,” Favre said.

The Jets added running back Marcus Mason, who had been on the Baltimore practice squad, too the Jets active roster after losing Jesse Chatman for the season. James Ihedigbo was added to the active roster from the practice squad, and Brandon Renkart was added to the practice squad.

Jets coach Eric Mangini said S Eric Smith did not sustain a third concussion in the win over Kansas City.

Rob Turner, who came in for TE Chris Baker after he was suddenly scratched from the KC game, was named practice player of the week. Laveranues Coles was named offensive player of the week and Kerry Rhodes was defensive player of the week. Leon Washington and Chatman were named special teams players of the week.

Brett Favre said this year was the hardest he’s ever had in football, but I’ll expand on that and get the audio up later.

Update: Eric Smith and TE Bubba Franks were not out at practice, and LB David Harris rode the bike on the sideline.

I asked LG Alan Faneca about what happened when he inadvertantly tackled Brett Favre’s throwing arm in the first quarter against Kansas City.

“I was trying to figure out what happened and how I wound up on top of him,” Faneca said. “I was looking for a replay but they didn’t show that one.”

LB Jason Trusnik comes off the PUP list today. The Jets have 21 days to play or trade him.

UPDATE II: The injury report is out. K Mike Nugent is out. Franks, Harris, Smith and OL Damien Woody (personal reasons) did not practice. Baker, Coles, Cotchery and LB Cody Spencer (shoulder) were limited.

For the Bills, G Brad Butler (knee), RB Marshawn Lynch (not injury related), WR Josh Reed (ankle) and DE Aaron Schobel (foot) did not practice. S John Wendling (ankle) was limited, and G Jason Whittle (thigh) and CB Ashton Youboty (foot) practiced fully.

The Jets got $16 million for 620 PSLs in the Coaches Club seating area, with access to the sideline. Were you one of the successful bidders? Do you live in Rockland, Westchester or Putnam counties? Do you have a pulse?

If you can answer yes to any of those questions, drop me an email at jmcmanus@lohud.com. Oh, and save me some caviar!

RB Jesse Chatman and fourth-string QB Erik Ainge are officially out. Ainge is listed with a right foot injury.

But the list of potentially serious injuries doesn’t end there. S Eric Smith was taken out of the Kansas City game after suffering two concussions in three weeks. Jets coach Eric Mangini said it was precautionary, but it probably would’ve been truly precautionary to let him sit for the entire game.

LB David Harris and TE Bubba Franks have hip injuries that may prove more serious than they seemed at first, and TE Chris Baker scratched at the last second on Sunday after being dressed and active.

And if Baker said he couldn’t play, he must really be hurting since his contract extension is only activated if he plays a certain percentage of the game.

Add to that that QB Brett Favre looked stiff and uncomfortable directly after the game, but I imagine few people would feel real good after 6-5, 305-pound left guard Alan Faneca toppled onto your throwing arm.

Good news: WR Jerricho Cotchery, LB Calvin Pace and NT Kris Jenkins seem to have recovered from what got them on the practice report in recent weeks.

They are probably among the most crucial pieces for the Jets right now, along with Favre, Darelle Revis… who else do you think?

Running back Jesse Chatman has probably played his last game for the Jets this season. He sustained a knee injury in the win. “Odds are it could be season ending,” Jets coach Eric Mangini said. Yesterday, Chatman limped across the locker room after the game with his left knee wrapped in black tape.

After a preseason game against the Eagles where Chatman had 180 yards of total yardage, 93 rushing on 29 carries and six catches for 87 yards, the back got a four-game suspension for breaking the NFL’s performance enhancing substances rule. He returned against Cincinnati in Week 6.