This is the latest in a series of nine Radar entries over the next 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:    

The Buffalo Bills have been knocking on the door for a while but no one's answered. That's the playoff door, of course, and the Bills, des… More

There's no disguising it — the Jets were in a tough spot around 3:45 p.m. today. Their game and even their season hung in the balance.

"A lot of emotions were going through my head at that point in time," wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery said. "It was looking dark ... it was probably looking darker than dark."

But Cotchery never lost hope and neither did Leon Washington, standing near him on th… More

Marshawn Lynch returns after the third quarter gets under way, but the Bills featured back still isn't ready to return to action. He jogs with a dark green towel over his head to the stationary bike and starts to pedal as the Bills try to move the ball on the second half.

The Bills try some fakery that, in a similar form, worked well for the Raiders two weeks ago. Facing fourth-and-4 at their 24,… More

We know the Jets’ recent history in Buffalo. The Green & White have won just one of their past five meetings with the Bills in Western New York and they’ve ordinarily been slow starters at Ralph Wilson Stadium.

You’d have to go back to 2003 to find the last time the Jets struck first in Orchard Park. Doug Brien’s 38-yard field goal gave them a 3-0 first-quarter advantage, but they’d eventuall… More