Today was D'Brickashaw Ferguson's day at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. He did several sitdown and standup interviews, with newyorkjets.com, SNY, NFL Network. He mingled with his family, teammates, friends in the team's boardroom. Then he entered a packed auditorium to applause as more teammates, friends and media joined owner Woody Johnson in celebrating his career in green and white.
And then when Ferguson got up to speak, he bared his soul and showed his heart.
"As I was thinking about what I wanted to say today," he said on the occasion of his retirement after 10 outstanding seasons in green and white, "I thought it best to start from the beginning.