It's the time of the season when draft fever runs high, so draft zombies everywhere are doing what they always do at this time of year: getting educated.

And we're planning a draft blitz in the coming month to get Jets fans and all else who come to the Radar and to newyorkjets.com up to speed for the 2009 NFL Draft on April 25-26.

We're going to kick off our draft coverage Thursday with Eric All… More

The Jets have spoken in Indy.

Head coach Rex Ryan and GM Mike Tannenbaum both had their news conferences at Lucas Oil Stadium at the NFL combine workouts this morning as scheduled. We're having some technical issues in getting reports to you, but I can tell you that Ryan, far from shying away from his confident statements upon being named Jets coach on Jan. 21, repeated one of his mantras to the … More

It's the calm before the Combine storm, and we took the long weekend to gear up for the semi-new Jets regime (old hat for Mike Tannenbaum, a new fedora for rookie HC Rex Ryan) to assume their positions at the new Lucas Oil Stadium podium in Indianapolis at this year's NFL Combine workouts.

Ryan, who made quite the splash at Sunday's Daytona 500 — he told The New York Times he's a huge auto racing… More

Before New York Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum left for Indianapolis and the NFL Combine, we dropped by his office for a quick Q&A. Mr. T, now in his 12th season with the Green & White and third as the GM, has a large Jets contingent at the RCA Dome as more than 300 top college prospects make their respective cases during interviews, physicals and workouts.      

How much emphasis do… More

A big banner hangs across one of the many second-floor walkways that span the streets of downtown Indianapolis. It contains the slogan "2008 Starts Now" positioned right next to the NFL Scouting Combine logo.

It's true enough as the next draft class of 300-plus college players goes through the annual ritual of being prodded and poked, measured and tested, audiotaped and videotaped under the big w… More