As a companion piece to Wednesday's Miami story that kicked off this Radar series on the AFC East, the Fourth of July brings us appropriately to the Patriots.

Just as it's not hard to find downward trends on a 1-15 team, it's easy to rave about everything on a team such as New England, which went 16-0 in the regular season and to their fourth Super Bowl appearance in seven years, where they lost … More

NFL Films among many others painted this NFL championship game in similar stark colors. Today's game would result in either the perfect season or the perfect upset.

The perfect upset it is.

In what many will declare the greatest Super Bowl of all the XLII played, Eli Manning, Plaxico Burress and the New York Giants answered an 80-yard touchdown drive capped by Tom Brady's 6-yard TD pass to Randy… More

Kareem McKenzie looked the same as he did in his four Jets seasons. Dapper, even though he was wearing his game jersey at the Giants' Super Bowl media session. Studious, with his half-frame glasses and the book he brought with him to his interview riser. Directorial, as the videocamera he also brought with him suggested.

"Part of my focus this week is to make sure I take it all in," McKenzie said… More

Every year the players on each NFL team vote for one among them as their Ed Block Courage Award winner. Some years, on some teams, there's no real competition.

On this year's Jets, Laveranues Coles was the easy choice.

"I've tried to fight through everything I pretty much can fight through," said Coles, who missed one game with a concussion and has played the last two on an extremely painful ank… More

It's hot, humid and sunny under only thin wisps of clouds. The members of the New York Jets Flight Crew comes out of the huddle, showing off their new uniforms publicly for the first time, and behind their flags and amid the smoke of the on-field fireworks come the 2007 Jets.

The Jets win the toss when the Patriots call heads and referee Jeff Triplette's coin toss comes up tails, as in "Tails nev… More