last suited up for Gang Green<\/a> and here he was Friday, sauntering to the post-practice podium, joking about faces he recognized among the media corps.\u00a0<\/p>\nThis is not the Jets doing a favor for an old friend. <\/p>\n
Folk has led the league in field-goal percentage for each of the last two seasons with the Titans and was perfect on extra points last year. Since missing the entire 2018 season \u2014 his career seemingly over after being released by the Buccaneers \u2014 Folk has not missed a field goal under 40 yards. He is considered the favorite to win the kicking job against Harrison Mevis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Folk missed the final three games of last season with injury, the main reason he was available for the Jets to bring in off the street at the end of July.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is a welcome reunion on both sides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Jets kicker Nick Folk speaks to the media after practice at training camp in Florham Park, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
The Jets went through five kickers last season, looked on their way to more trouble and could use some stability at the position. Folk gets another year of doing what he loves to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to be back in the area,\u201d Folk said. \u201cI love the Northeast, I love it up here. New Jersey\u2019s been awesome to my family and I. Three of my kids were born here, so they\u2019ll come up at some point. We were gonna come up here for spring break this year and it kinda fell through. I guess it was God\u2019s way of saying, \u2018You don\u2019t need to go now. Come back later.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since Folk left the Jets in 2016, he\u2019s had a fourth kid and the franchise has changed its logo and uniforms, to say nothing of how many different head coaches and quarterbacks it\u2019s gone through.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aaron Glenn, the Jets\u2019 first-year coach, briefly crossed paths with Folk when he was ending his time with the Cowboys at the same time the kicker was starting his stint in Dallas. Folk is five years older than special teams coordinator Chris Banjo, and no, it\u2019s not the first time that\u2019s happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, I was the same age as my head coach [Brian Callahan], that was a little strange,\u201d Folk said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As long as Folk keeps making kicks, age will just be a number.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If he is anywhere near as good for the Jets as he was for the Titans, he will quickly attain Folk Hero status yet again in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cExcited to be back,\u201d Folk said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun, great organization. I had a great seven years here. Hopefully make it a great eighth and maybe longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Folk remembers Mason Taylor from his last stint with the Jets.\u00a0 Taylor, the Jets\u2019 rookie tight end,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,10554,9,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-255219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkjets","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nick-folk","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114957692870240518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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New York Jets kicker Nick Folk (2) kicks a field goal from the hold of Lac Edwards during the second half an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in Orchard Park, N.Y. AP<\/p>\n