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

The NFL's master schedule won't be revealed, except for dribs and drabs and rumors, until April, but all teams have known their 2008 opponents for a month and a half. And if Jets fans haven't taken a look at the coming season's strength of schedule, you might want to send out an SOS.

The New England Patriots have the league's "easiest" schedule.

Now that I've got your blood boiling, let me bring… More