{"id":577,"date":"2006-08-10T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T04:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2006-08-10T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T04:21:22","slug":"curtis-martin-addresses-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2006\/08\/10\/curtis-martin-addresses-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Martin Addresses Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Jets will make their 2006 preseason debut Friday night in Tampa and Curtis Martin will not be in the lineup.\u00c2\u00a0 Martin, a member of the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list since camp began, addressed the media Wednesday before the Green & White took the field for their second practice.\u00c2\u00a0 The future Hall of Famer, who underwent surgery on his right knee last December, denied rumors that he is considering retirement and that he had another operation on his knee.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am here working out as hard as I can,\u00e2\u20ac? said Martin.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am here every single day. I am probably up here more than a lot of the other players because I am doing extra work.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t discuss the condition of his knee and said he still hopes to play in 2006.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That is what I am working out for. That is why I am up here spending all of these hours rehabbing,\u00e2\u20ac? he said.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That is why I am doing it.\u00c2\u00a0 For me, it is about doing as much as I can to put myself in the best possible position to be at my best.\u00e2\u20ac?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jets have practiced without Martin on the field, but he hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been a stranger at Weeb Ewbank Hall.\u00c2\u00a0 Martin continues to help his team in the meeting rooms and the 33-year old works out on his own away from the cameras.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every single day I am up here in the morning. I go through every single meeting,\u00e2\u20ac? Martin said.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I take every single note. I am in the running back meetings helping the other running backs, trying to relate some of my experience to them.\u00c2\u00a0 When the team comes out, I am working out two times a day and doing different rehab. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do me any good to be out on the field doing sit-ups and riding a bike.\u00e2\u20ac?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next month, the Jets will open their regular season schedule at Tennessee.\u00c2\u00a0 Martin was asked if he thought playing against the Titans was a possibility.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Time will tell. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what exactly will happen,\u00e2\u20ac? he said.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just keep preparing to be my best. It is what it is. Obviously I have missed some training camp, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do anything about what I missed, but when I get back, I get back and I will take it from there.\u00e2\u20ac?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The NFL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fourth all-time leading rusher relayed a message of commitment to his fans.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would like to say that I am trying to do my best to be as good as I can possibly be, and I am doing my best to be back as soon as I can possibly by back,\u00e2\u20ac? he said.\u00c2\u00a0 “I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know everything. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. I do not want to spend time clearing up rumors that did not come out of my mouth or that came from someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mouth. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long it will take me. All I can do is keep working.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Jets will make their 2006 preseason debut Friday night in Tampa and Curtis Martin will not be in the lineup.\u00c2\u00a0 Martin, a member of the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list since camp began, addressed the media Wednesday before the Green & White took the field for their second practice.\u00c2\u00a0 The future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}