The standout play in what was a pretty mundane morning practice of training camp (hey, it’s the first one) was a Danny Woodhead run during 7-on-7 drills.

Woodhead, the rookie running back, took the handoff and shot through a hole off left guard for a couple of yards before being wrapped up. In those drills, which are meant to be slightly more physical than a game of two-hand touch after school,… More

And that brings me to the last of my AFC East Trends blogs, the Jets on the uptick. Despite the disappointments of last season, there are a number of positive areas to revisit on the eve of the 2008 training camp: the production of players such as Jerricho Cotchery, Kerry Rhodes, David Harris and Mike Nugent and the fact that the Jets remain the NFL's least-penalized team since, oh, about 1990.

B… More

I'd like to introduce a new voice to all you Radar operators out there. Stephen Haynes has joined the staff of newyorkjets.com as a summer intern. You may remember some of Stephen's work as a part-time writer and intern for Newsday. He covered the Jets some and also was the beat reporter covering the Arena League's New York Dragons for the Long Island daily.

Stephen hails from the Bronx and is s… More

This afternoon's practice, the final workout of the Jets' full-squad minicamp, featured the catch of the camp plus an uprising from the first defense.

The catch was turned in by Laveranues Coles on a 7-on-7 pass from Chad Pennington. Coles and CB Justin Miller had some substantial but incidental contact (no flag was thrown), with Miller going down and Coles stumbling coming out of the contact — a… More

Justin Miller was in a playful mood — he rarely isn't — after Thursday's OTA practice, when he was surrounded by more reporters than since his Game 2 injury last September.

I asked him if one play he was in on that day, the end zone pass from Chad Pennington that Laveranues Coles couldn't hold, was kind of a significant play, indicative of his first reps with the Jets in a long time.

"Every … More