Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005.
GLENDALE, Ariz.
They come and they go, big names and big personalities, from Brett Favre to Rex Ryan to Tim Tebow to Bart Scott and now Brandon Marshall.
Sometimes they come and go and come back again, in the case of Darrelle Revis.
But through all the Jets tumult of the past decade, there has been one quiet constant who does not say much publicly and whose name rarely comes up on sports talk radio or in social media rants.