This was in the back of one of the end zones of Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium on a Sunday night in early October 2011.
Nick Mangold, the Jets’ all-world center, was trying to run laterally, with then-Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum, coach Rex Ryan and members of the team’s medical staff looking on. It was not going well. The concern on the faces of all involved was obvious.
That night Mangold would miss his second straight game due to a high-ankle sprain, the first games he missed in his career. A rookie named Colin Baxter would start in his place.