THIS AND THAT..........FRIDAY
Ex-Ram, Torry Holt, is visiting Jacksonville & Tennessee to see if there's interest in signing the 9-time all-pro. Both would be good spots for him. Jason Taylor, another perennial all-pro, is talking to Bill Belichick about visiting the Pats. After the Chiefs traded for Mike Vrabel then signed Mike Goff & Bobby Engram, I told you these were good moves, given the disarray of the Chief's depth chart. Bill Belichick chimed in yesterday with "They know their time is limited, so you usually get a player's best shot at that point in their careers. You know the level of commitment you're going to get from players who've started year after year in this league". I agree wholeheartedly.
On the other hand, when you have a highly touted player who continually disappoints & then as he's leaving town via free agency, he knocks his former team, showing immaturity & little personal accountability. Tight end L.J. Smith went on & on yesterday, after signing with the Falcons, about Andy Reid, Donovan McNabb, other Eagle teammates & maybe even the hot dog vendor. They were to blame for him not living up to his potential as an Eagle, it certainly wasn't his doing, in his mind he's as good a tight end as there is in the league. Hold on there L.J. When you came out of Rutgers I & a few others, thought you weren't committed enough to succeed in a big way. You dropped a lot of passes thrown by McNabb, you were nicked up with minor injuries & I think Atlanta might be as sorry as Philly that they got involved with you.
Aaron Curry is coming to Kansas City April 4th for a private interview & workout. If they can't trade down for more picks, then he's the man in my opinion.
FOX31 in Denver posted a story on their website Tuesday, then took it down Wednesday & they put it back up late last night. It involves a quote from, God I hate these, an unnamed Bronco source, who said "two things that kept coming up were concerns about Cutler's alcohol consumption, given his diabetes & that he just wasn't very football sharp. That scared the crap out of McDaniels". Man, this is getting uglier by the day isn't it?
Speaking of ugly, former NFL pain in the ass, QB Jeff George told Yahoo Sports today that "if I'd been the QB in Minnesota we'd all have rings by now". Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, what are you about 47? He thinks he ought to be the 3rd stringer there right now. He even gives Cutler advice, "he ought to just bow his head, be quiet & lead your team". As someone who remembers George's spotty career very well, this advice certainly was never followed by him. His always was & always will be a knucklehead. A very talented knucklehead, but a knucklehead nonetheless.
After the stirring Mizzou/Memphis game last night, I wasn't able to go to bed, so I was all over the internet seeing what I could find to read. I came upon a front page blog on Sports Illustrated's web site, SI.com & the writer's hypothesis was the AFL was wrongly labeled the more "wide open" football league. The league had been romanticized unfairly & with the AFL's upcoming 60-year anniversary the whole notion of the AFL as an upstart league of maverick owners & players was simply a marketing ploy by the NFL to sell throwback jerseys. I read the entire post & the guy did have a lot of pure facts to back him up but there was this purely analytical slant to his piece. I went to the web site he writes for & found 9 other bloggers who also write for this site. They all had one thing in common, I don't think any of them were over 30 years old judging from their pictures. So that would mean they had never even seen an AFL game except in edited highlight form. He mentioned in the blog he had gotten all of these facts from ESPN's online football record book. I sent him a lengthy response & I'll post it here tonight, if I can figure out how to do it. But it's time for some March Madness right now, so I'll be back tonight with more.
On the other hand, when you have a highly touted player who continually disappoints & then as he's leaving town via free agency, he knocks his former team, showing immaturity & little personal accountability. Tight end L.J. Smith went on & on yesterday, after signing with the Falcons, about Andy Reid, Donovan McNabb, other Eagle teammates & maybe even the hot dog vendor. They were to blame for him not living up to his potential as an Eagle, it certainly wasn't his doing, in his mind he's as good a tight end as there is in the league. Hold on there L.J. When you came out of Rutgers I & a few others, thought you weren't committed enough to succeed in a big way. You dropped a lot of passes thrown by McNabb, you were nicked up with minor injuries & I think Atlanta might be as sorry as Philly that they got involved with you.
Aaron Curry is coming to Kansas City April 4th for a private interview & workout. If they can't trade down for more picks, then he's the man in my opinion.
FOX31 in Denver posted a story on their website Tuesday, then took it down Wednesday & they put it back up late last night. It involves a quote from, God I hate these, an unnamed Bronco source, who said "two things that kept coming up were concerns about Cutler's alcohol consumption, given his diabetes & that he just wasn't very football sharp. That scared the crap out of McDaniels". Man, this is getting uglier by the day isn't it?
Speaking of ugly, former NFL pain in the ass, QB Jeff George told Yahoo Sports today that "if I'd been the QB in Minnesota we'd all have rings by now". Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, what are you about 47? He thinks he ought to be the 3rd stringer there right now. He even gives Cutler advice, "he ought to just bow his head, be quiet & lead your team". As someone who remembers George's spotty career very well, this advice certainly was never followed by him. His always was & always will be a knucklehead. A very talented knucklehead, but a knucklehead nonetheless.
After the stirring Mizzou/Memphis game last night, I wasn't able to go to bed, so I was all over the internet seeing what I could find to read. I came upon a front page blog on Sports Illustrated's web site, SI.com & the writer's hypothesis was the AFL was wrongly labeled the more "wide open" football league. The league had been romanticized unfairly & with the AFL's upcoming 60-year anniversary the whole notion of the AFL as an upstart league of maverick owners & players was simply a marketing ploy by the NFL to sell throwback jerseys. I read the entire post & the guy did have a lot of pure facts to back him up but there was this purely analytical slant to his piece. I went to the web site he writes for & found 9 other bloggers who also write for this site. They all had one thing in common, I don't think any of them were over 30 years old judging from their pictures. So that would mean they had never even seen an AFL game except in edited highlight form. He mentioned in the blog he had gotten all of these facts from ESPN's online football record book. I sent him a lengthy response & I'll post it here tonight, if I can figure out how to do it. But it's time for some March Madness right now, so I'll be back tonight with more.
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