Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:54 am
we should watch the pro bowl together and use it as a vehicle of closure
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Report: Many in Lions organization fear that Jahvid Bestגs career is over
Posted by Mike Florio
Lions running back Jahvid Best last played football on October 16, 2011. Some within the organization reportedly fear that will be the last time he ever plays.
Best has a history of concussions. And while some teams had him completely off the draft board in 2010, the Lions traded back into the bottom of round one to get him. It was a calculated risk, with a definite potential reward.
Bestגs most recent concussion ended his season, only six days after he rushed for a career-high 163 yards in the teamגs first Monday Night Football appearance since the dawn of the Millen era. And while Best has said heגll גdefinitelyג be back on the field in 2012, Anwar Richardson of MLive.com (via NFL.com) reports that גmany within the organizationג are concerned that he may not return, ever.
If that happens, itגs unfortunate. But itגs not surprising given the leagueגs new litigation-influenced sensitivity to concussions. Of all positions, running back is most akin to a giant magnet rolling through a warehouse full of anvils. By virtue of the punishment they routinely absorb, running backs will continue to suffer blows to the head, and every other part of their bodies.
It's beautiful. I'm hearing rumors about the Bears going after Dwyane Bowe. There are gonna be some dope guards available when they make their first round pick at #19. I'm assuming that he'll select additional offensive linemen in the middle rounds (something that real GMs do). This could be one hell of an offseason.capable_keL wrote:huge news for Roy: Jerry Angelo is out. Phil Emery is in.
now the bears will actually add receivers to their offense
Roy Johnson wrote:It's beautiful. I'm hearing rumors about the Bears going after Dwyane Bowe. There are gonna be some dope guards available when they make their first round pick at #19. I'm assuming that he'll select additional offensive linemen in the middle rounds (something that real GMs do). This could be one hell of an offseason.capable_keL wrote:huge news for Roy: Jerry Angelo is out. Phil Emery is in.
now the bears will actually add receivers to their offense
very true.capable_keL wrote:next season, the QB/WR talent in this division will be unconscious
Criticism of the play in Sunday's Pro Bowl reached a new level when Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers blasted the effort of some NFC teammates Tuesday.
"I'll be honest with you," Rodgers said on ESPN 540 in Milwaukee. "I was a little bit disappointed. I felt like some of the guys on the NFC side embarrassed themselves."
The AFC routed the NFC 59-41 in a game that drew boos at Aloha Stadium for its lack of early intensity. Rodgers, who started and played the first quarter for the NFC, didn't name specific players.
"I was just surprised that some of the guys either didn't want to play or when they were in there didn't put any effort into it," Rodgers said.
Avoiding injuries in a meaningless all-star game is a high priority for many players. Rodgers, however, said that playing half-speed isn't the answer.
"I've always found that when you're going that tempo, that's when the injuries are going to happen, not if you're going full speed," Rodgers told ESPN 540. "You're more likely to get an injury standing around a pile or just going through it half-speed."
Packers, Wells likely will part ways wrote:Green Bay - Scott Wells has never taken no for an answer. The odds are he isn't going to now, either.
In so many words, Wells is being told by the Green Bay Packers that he has overvalued himself as an undersized, 31-year-old center no matter how well he has played for them.
Wells basically is telling the team, "Watch what happens."
Looking for a warm and fuzzy resolution to the contractual disagreement between the Packers and their best offensive lineman?
Three weeks before the start of unrestricted free agency, the best guess is the Packers will play with a new center next season.
Many times over the years the Packers have gone right to the free-agency bell before signing important veteran players to long-term deals. This time might be different.
It isn't an issue of cap room. General manager Ted Thompson and negotiator Russ Ball have the financial flexibility to pay Wells the contract commensurate with the five highest-paid centers that he is seeking.
Rather, their offer is the result of how they perceive the market should be and will be for a veteran center.
Agent Brian Parker and Ball surely will talk face to face this week during the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Each will reiterate his stance and perhaps attempt to lay groundwork for the compromise that would be necessary to keep Wells in Green Bay.
If the Packers have been low-balling Wells, they won't much longer. They'll move to their bottom line, and then Wells will make a decision.
Over the years, the large majority of players want to remain in Green Bay and eventually do. Just as Wells was in the minority making it big as a seventh-round draft choice, he could be in the minority again.
Having dealt with Wells for eight years, this much is true about him: He has a long memory.
Wells hasn't forgotten that the Packers cut him at the end of his first training camp.
More critically, he hasn't forgotten how Mike McCarthy and Thompson cast him aside after three years as their starting center and replaced him with Jason Spitz in 2009.
Sources also said the Packers at the time were looking to trade Wells, an immensely proud player they knew to be furious about his demotion.
Injuries to Spitz and other offensive linemen resulted in Wells being back in the lineup three games into 2009. Still, Wells can wonder where his career would be if Spitz and others had stayed healthy.
Wells responded with his finest season in '09, topped it in '10 and probably was even better yet in '11. Unlike so many of his teammates, Wells wasn't offered an early extension and played for base salaries of $2.25 million in 2010 and $2.75 million last year.
He remembers that, too.
For the first time in his football career, Wells is in charge. He's coming off his first Pro Bowl. His health is robust. And he has the leverage associated with free agency.
A year ago, Wells saw guard Daryn Colledge move to Arizona for $5.5 million a year. Colledge is two years younger than Wells but isn't in his league as a player.
At the same time, Wells took note of the identical five-year, $27.5 million contract that perhaps the best center in free agency, David Baas, received from the New York Giants.
Baas, 29 at the time, isn't nearly as good as Wells, either. But at 6 feet 4 1/2 inches and 330 pounds, Baas is much bigger than Wells (6-2, 300), and bigger almost always is better in the eyes of NFL teams.
Baas presently ranks fifth among centers with an average annual salary of $5.5 million. The top four are Carolina's Ryan Kalil ($8.2M), the Jets' Nick Mangold ($7.7M), St. Louis' Jason Brown ($7.5M) and Tampa Bay's Jeff Faine ($6.3M).
When their blockbuster deals were signed, Brown was 25, Kalil and Mangold were 26 and Faine was 27.
When Wells signed his five-year, $15 million extension in November 2006, he was 25.
After all Wells has gone through in Green Bay, he doesn't figure to give the hometown discount.
Just as being stubborn and tough served Wells so well on the field, look for him to be equally competitive now.
Nine teams besides the Packers have their starting center headed for free agency. It figures to be a game of musical chairs with 13 unrestricted centers jousting for jobs.
"If you needed a center in free agency this year, to me the first one you'd be looking at is Chris Myers," an AFC personnel man said Monday. "Second guy would be (Dan) Koppen. Out of Wells, (Samson) Satele and (Nick) Hardwick, beauty will be in the eye of the beholder. I'd trust Scott Wells the most of those three."
Houston's Myers (6-4 1/2, 296) and San Diego's Hardwick (6-3 1/2, 305) are 30. New England's Koppen (6-2 1/2, 296) is 32. Oakland's Satele (6-2 1/2, 300) is 27.
"You can win with Scott Wells," the scout said. "I just don't think you can with five Scott Wells."
Atlanta and Indianapolis, two teams within a four-hour drive of Wells' home outside Nashville, have a hole at center and could be suitors.
Without Wells, McCarthy would be left with Evan Dietrich-Smith competing against maybe an aging ex-starter obtained in free agency. Wisconsin's Peter Konz, the only top center in the draft, might not be left when the Packers pick at No. 28.
Just because Wells tests the market doesn't mean he won't return. James Jones came back a year ago.
But given all that is Scott Wells, he's probably gone if the Packers haven't signed him by 3 p.m. March 13.
Tag Flynn?@AdamSchefter
Packers reached agreement with TE Jermichael Finley on a 2-year, $15 million deal.
This goes against what TT usually stands for but I'm all for it.Mike Freeman, CBS Sports wrote:8. I continue to hear from league executives that the Packers might make some sort of big move in the draft.
Peppers and Williams together??A "number of NFL sources" tell CSN Chicago that the Bears are considered around the league to be the favorites for free agent Mario Williams as Tuesday's 4PM ET signing period approaches.
Nah, Williams Wall pt. II in Buffalo, nigga.an-also wrote:Peppers and Williams together??A "number of NFL sources" tell CSN Chicago that the Bears are considered around the league to be the favorites for free agent Mario Williams as Tuesday's 4PM ET signing period approaches.
a bit worrisome sure, but i think that's the same statistic you called overrated after an-also posted the article last season about Clay Matthews III's improvement against the run.capable_keL wrote:Raji: run stuffing machine
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On the surface, Hargrove is a curious signing by general manager Ted Thompson because he comes with some baggage and could be in line for a suspension for his role in the Saintsג bounty scandal.
With St. Louis in 2006, he went AWOL for a couple of days and wound up getting shipped to Buffalo. With the Bills, he was suspended for the first four games of the 2007 for a second violation of the NFLגs substance-abuse policy. He then sat out the entire 2008 season for a third violation of the substance-abuse policy.
As he told The New York Times before Super Bowl XLIV while a member of the Saints: גI had tried to kill myself a few times, but it had never worked. I was taking sleeping pills and I tried to take a whole bottle of them, but Iגd wake up a day and a half later and be like, גOK, that didnגt work.ג And Iגd have to go to work weak.ג
He stopped using marijuana and cocaine and was rewarded with a Super Bowl ring with the Saints in 2009.
Hargrove made headlines again as part of the Saints bounty controversy and his hit on Vikings quarterback Brett Favre in the NFC Championship Game. Hargrove was penalized and fined $5,000 for a late hit on Favre, and according to Sports Illustrated, Hargrove celebrated Favreגs ankle injury by saying, גFavre is out of the game! Favre is done! Favre is done!ג
Hargrove released a statement last week calling the late hit and his comments גmistakes,ג and said he received גnothing for the play some keep referencing,ג though he did receive a game ball.
The NFL has not suspended any players for the scandal, but itגs possible the Packers would not have his services to start the season.
Hargrove, who will turn 29 on July 20, was a third-round pick out of Georgia Tech by St. Louis in 2004
Three weeks into his stint on גDancing with the Stars,ג Packers WR Donald Driverגs progression as a dancer is mirroring that of his football career. Driver has steadily improved his score each week, going from 21 in week 1, to 24 in week 2, and 26 in Monday nightגs show.
Driver turned in an emotional performance, dedicating his rendition of the rumba to a friend lost to cancer in 2010 ג the same friend who introduced Driver to his wife, Betina. Driver explained that his friend died in his arms. גI grabbed his hand. All he could do is look at me,ג Driver said. גAnd tears rolled down his eyes. He took another breath. And that was it. And I never let him go.ג
Driver and partner Peta Murgatroyd, the last of 11 duos to perform in Mondayגs show, danced to Mariah Careyגs גOne Sweet Day.ג
And what did each judge think of the pairגs execution?
גThe passion that you just expressed was mesmerizing,ג said Carrie Ann Inaba, who marked Driver and Murgatroyd with a 9. גI was truly touched.ג
Len Goodman gave the pair an 8, explaining, גI didnגt expect such a great, big, hunky-dunky football guy to come out and dance with such warmth and emotion. Awesome.ג
Judge Bruno Tonioli rounded out the scorecard, telling Driver, גYou push yourself to the limit every time.ג Tonioli awarded the Packersג all-time leading receiver with a 9. Driver and Murgatroydגs 26 was the 4th-highest score of the evening.
After the dance, Driver gave some simple advice: גYou need to cherish every moment,ג Driver said. גLive life to the fullest.ג
Pro Football Weekly just released their season preview magazine.Tweak Da Leak wrote:It's June, niggas.