I didn't know Steve McNair, shot to death early Saturday morning in Nashville, Tenn. But I knew of him, and of how he stood — tall — in the pocket, especially in his four games against the Jets over the years.

In fact, the very first start of McNair's very good, borderline-Hall-of-Fame career, came as a rookie against the Green & White. It was the next-to-last game of the 1995 season between … More

One of the great things about the NFL is that it brings the holidays to its fans not just one day a year but several. There's the national holiday known as the Super Bowl, the morning of every team's opening day and the draft.

And there is Friday morning, when fans will see if Pigskin Santa left an unrestricted free agent under each team's tree.

Of course, the free agency signing period extends … More

A last Radar entry on the NFL Scouting Combine, not from the Indianapolis Convention Center because I'm back in New York now, having caught my flight back to JFK. It's on just a few people I ran into during my four days in the shadow of the RCA Dome.

One was Neil O'Donnell, the longtime Jets, Pittsburgh and Tennessee QB. The last time I talked to him a few years ago, he was entrenched doing repor… More