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.

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It was a weekend of homecomings for at least three Jets vets.

WR Jerricho Cotchery and S Kerry Rhodes returned to their Alabama roots — along with some of their Green & White friends — to give the kids of the Birmingham area some fun and games, a football camp, and some words of inspiration.

"I wanted to give kids in Birmingham opportunities I didn't have," Cotchery told the Birmingham News.… More

Leon Washington has a joy for football and a joy for life.

And now that the Jets vets have been released until the late July start of training camp, we suspect Leon is in Tallahassee, Fla., spending a lot of quality time with his pride and joy, especially today as Father's Day kicks off.

"My son's name is Leon Washington Jr.," the Jets' reigning team MVP beamed during the recently concluded full… More

Yes, Vernon Gholston was at his first full-squad practice of any kind this morning, as we reported earlier. But while No. 56 was taking it slower in than he will at training camp, the Jets' other first-rounder with No. 81 was doing a little flying.

TE Dustin Keller, in fact, caught two passes on last year's No. 1 draft pick, the already accomplished starting CB Darrelle Revis.

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Football, golf and charity: Happy together.

And in the case of the fifth annual New York Jets Charity Golf Classic today, happy doesn't even capture it. The day started out hot but turned into a beautiful day for golf, warm yet breezy on the well-manicured grounds of a private club in Jericho, N.Y.

The Jets and their golfing fans were the stars of the day at the fifth annual Classic, whose prese… More