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

Lost in the Jets' signing frenzy of the last week was the departure of a veteran player with a positive attitude. Safety Erik Coleman, who was an unrestricted free agent, signed with the Atlanta Falcons on Saturday.

Coleman provided the Jets with some strong play for a fifth-round draft pick, starting the first 36 games of his career. And he opened that career with a bang when he made interceptio… More

There was more than one politician gunning for a big prize in Indianapolis this morning. Hundreds of feet away from Monument Circle, where Republican presidential candidate John McCain was holding a town hall meeting at an Indy radio station, Matt Ryan took the podium at the Indianapolis Convention Center.

Ryan is the Boston College quarterback who is some folks' candidate to be the top pick in A… 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

Quarterbacks will always be in the Super spotlight, in the forefront for winning the Super Bowl MVP trophy. In that regard, New England's Tom Brady and New York's Eli Manning have been dissected every which way to Sunday this past week.

I'm not going to tell you anything you don't know, but I have some numbers that maybe you haven't seen that indicate the trends today's two field generals have be… More