This is the latest in a series of nine Radar entries over the past five weeks detailing trends in the AFC East, downward tendencies each division team wants to correct for the coming season and upward strides that each team wants to continue into 2009:    

Here’s a shoutout to the Jets’ starting offensive linemen, who had one of the best OL campaigns in franchise history last season and are b… More

When it comes to the Jets' offensive line, Brandon Moore has something that none of the other four starters — in fact, no one else on the Jets roster — can have until Moore misses a game.

And that's the longest current streak of consecutive starts as a Jet

"It's just a sense of accountability," Moore said recently about his regular-season streak, which began in the middle of the 2004 season … More

A miked-up Jerry Glanville once famously stated that NFL stands for Not For Long. And that phrase also describes Brandon Moore's experience with free agency.

But Moore took this whole episode of being released, entering "the market" however briefly, and then returning to the Jets in a span of three days just like your typical unflappable offensive lineman.

"I honestly didn't know if I'd be back,… More

The snow is gradually retreating from the turf field outside my second-floor window here at the Atlantic Health Training Center, slowly revealing the ghostly upside-down yardline numbers on the far side of the field. At first the numbers were gauzy under a thin layer of snow. Now late this afternoon, under a low, gray sky, they're more visible, at least until darkness descends.

It sounds desolat… More

I was trying to be diplomatically neutral — or was it ironically vague? — when I suggested to one of my coworkers that today's Jets developments were "interesting."

"They're not interesting," he replied with a pained smile. "This is tough."

Well, yes, it is that, too. The Jets and head coach Eric Mangini parting company today is tough indeed. Difficult on several levels.

It's tough from the… More