It's not raining in the area around East Rutherford, N.J., as originally forecast, but the wind is whipping, the air is chilly and the skies are low and gray — a forbidding omen for one of our two Meadowlands combatants today, either the visiting Bills, who with a loss would slip to 1-5 for the season, or the Jets, who with a third straight defeat would fall to 3-3.

The Jets, of course, are co… More

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

They play the games in the fall but that doesn’t make schedule day any less exciting. Even though we already knew whom the Jets would face in 2008, we didn’t know when and we wondered for months. Well, thankfully we ain’t wondering anymore!

When we internally received the official email early this afternoon, I decided to break the season up into quarters to view what was on the horizon.

Qu… More