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Seahawks Remain Only Team Eligible to Get Vincent Jackson from Chargers
If San Diego is going to trade top-flight wide receiver Vincent Jackson, it’s going to be to the Seattle Seahawks. The question now is this: Are the Chargers serious about trading Jackson?
Maybe not. The agents for Jackson, Neil Schwartz and Jonathan Feinsod, say they were denied permission by San Diego management to talk to any team other than Seattle. The Seahawks were given permission to talk to Jackson, who has made it clear he does not want to play under the one-year tender offer the Chargers have made to the restricted free agent.
Jackson, who has 168 catches for 2,888 yards and 19 touchdowns the last three seasons for San Diego, would be a huge boost to the Seattle offense. But Schwartz said he doesn’t get the impression that the Chargers are trying to move his client.
“I asked the Chargers if we could talk to the rest of the teams in the NFL,” Schwartz told Yahoo.com “They said there were certain teams they didn’t want to trade him to, and I said, ‘Fine, tell me those teams and we can exclude them.’ Even after that, they said no, so the only conclusion I can come to is they don’t want to trade him.”
The agents are saying about a half dozen teams have indicated some level of interest in obtaining Jackson’s services. If the Chargers want to work the best deal they can, it would seem to make sense that they open the field to other interested parties.
Vince Young and the Titan Receivers are read to take the next step
His quarterback is completing more tasks in practices, commanding more in preseason games and is looking fit and aware. But Jeff Fisher, the Tennessee Titans coach, always keeps this in mind.
“He’s young in this league,” 27 and enters his fifth NFL season. It seems, though, like he has been around longer. Big plays mixed with big troubles and a spotlight that has caught him in charitable ways but also in unsuitable incidents have made Young more familiar, more public, more prone to be kicked around.
But Young looks ready now. He looks primed for something big, something distinguishing this season. You could see it here on Monday night in his preseason game work against the Arizona Cardinals. It was evident here on Wednesday as the Cardinals stuck around for a joint practice. Read More >>
Brian Westbrook Makes a 49ers Deal
The 49ers acted quickly to fill the hole on their running back depth chart, signing Brian Westbrook to a one-year deal with a base value of $1.25 million. Westbrook, who spent all eight seasons of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles, was released by his longtime team after an injury-plagued 2009 season.
His signing was precipitated by the retirement of Glen Coffee, who decided to hang up his cleats after just one season in the NFL. Coffee was to be the 49ers’ second-string running back in 2010.
That role will now fall to some combination of Westbrook and Anthony Dixon, the talented rookie who rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries in the 49ers’ first preseason game on Sunday.
Westbrook has two Pro Bowl seasons to his credit, including a remarkable 2007 season where he rushed for 1,333 yards while recording 90 catches, both career highs. At 30 years old, Westbrook was reportedly deciding between backup roles with the 49ers, Rams and Redskins.
With the 49ers, Westbrook could double his $1.25 million salary should he reach certain incentives in his contract.
Darrelle Revis Is Right: Jets Should Stand Down, Pay Up
Woody Johnson and the New York Jets are posturing, which is fine. With more than a month left before the season starts, it’s still the time for that. So they posture, and Darrelle Revis postures, and all the while the team’s best player is missing training camp, fans are panicking and HBO is licking its chops over the prospect of unprecedented “Hard Knocks” ratings. Nothing is lost, except the money the Jets can fine Revis every day he doesn’t show up.
Johnson, Rex Ryan and the Jets spent the past couple of days making public proclamations about how ready they were to move on and play the 2010 season without Revis. This is a good tactic, since there’s a chance it scares Revis back to the negotiating table and closer to a deal on the team’s terms.
What it’s not, however, is true. The Jets don’t — can’t possibly — believe they’ll be all right if they have to play this season without Revis. His absence would be devastating, as he himself realizes. And it is for that reason that the Jets should swallow hard and pay him what he wants.
The issue is the contract of Oakland’s Nnamdi Asomugha, currently the NFL‘s highest-paid cornerback at $15.1 million per season. Revis correctly believes himself to be better than Asomugha, and because money is the way such things are measured, he believes he should make more. Read More >>
Michael Vick and The Company He Keeps
Michael Vick will not be punished by the NFL for a shooting incident that occurred at the quarterback’s birthday party in Virginia Beach, Va., last month, the league announced Tuesday. Quanis Phillips, a co-defendant in Vick’s dog-fighting trial, was shot in the leg outside a nightclub on June 25, following a birthday party for Vick.
Last month, league spokesman Greg Aiello told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the league had completed its investigation into the incident and there was “no change” in Vick’s playing status.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell met with Vick on Tuesday at Philadelphia’s training camp — the commissioner had previously stated that he would not make a final decision on Vick’s status until talking with the Eagles’ QB.
The league’s full statement regarding Vick:
“Commissioner Goodell informed Michael Vick [Tuesday] at Eagles camp that there will be no disciplinary action as a result of the incident in Virginia, based on his current understanding of the facts. Commissioner Goodell spoke several weeks ago by phone with Michael, Tony Dungy, and Eagles Coach Andy Reid. All were in agreement on the need for additional support measures to be added to Michael’s plan to enhance his opportunity to succeed in life and football. These additional steps will remain confidential, but they will require Michael to meet even higher standards.”
Brett Favre Told Vikings Making a Decision
Brett Favre has reportedly told the Minnesota Vikings he will not play in 2010, and instead will retire after 19 seasons in the NFL.
Favre began telling Vikings officials on Monday night that he won’t play for the team this year. Favre apparently doesn’t think his surgically repaired ankle is sufficiently healthy to play this season.
Favre has also started to tell teammates he would be retiring, But sources close to the situation also said that the Minnesota Vikings are prepared to offer Favre more money and more time to reconsider his decision.
If Favre doesn’t come back, that would be a huge blow to the Vikings, who were among the favorites in the NFC and were counting on Favre to lead them in 2010 as he did in 2009. But it’s important to remember that there’s still more than a month until the start of the season, which gives Favre plenty of time to change his mind. Maybe several times… Read More >>
Negative Press for Lions President Tom After DUI
The NFL has suspended Detroit Lions President Tom Lewand for 30 days and fined him $100,000 as a result of his drunk driving arrest and subsequent guilty plea, as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shows once again that he’s serious about holding all league employees to high standards in their personal conduct.
In this case, Goodell was even tougher on Lewand than he usually is on players: The DUI was Lewand’s first offense under the league’s personal-conduct policy, and NFL players typically aren’t disciplined for first DUI offenses.
“You occupy a special position of responsibility and trust, and – as you have publicly acknowledged – your conduct must be consistent with someone in that position,” Goodell told Lewand in a letter that has been released publicly. Read More >>
Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos Part Ways
The Denver Broncos announced that they had agreed to a five-year deal with quarterback Tim Tebow, the 25th pick in April’s draft, continuing a recent run of first-round draft pick signings.
Tebow’s deal is worth a max $33 million over five years, and the rookie QB will get $8.7 million guaranteed. It’s a bigger deal than the player picked before him — Dallas receiver Dez Bryant — received, but that isn’t a huge surprise, as there were reports Tebow wanted more money than Bryant because he is a quarterback.
The Denver Broncos traded up into the end of the first round, dealing with Baltimore to acquire the pick they used on Tebow, a four-year star at Florida and one of the draft’s most interesting stories.
With so many questions about his ability to play the quarterback position on an every-down basis in the NFL, it was a surprise to some that Tebow was selected in the first round. Read More >>
Are the Bengals Ready for Ochocinco and Owens?
Is Any City Big Enough for Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens, or even the NFL for that matter?
With these two names/egos competing for the spotlight in Cincinnati, there is sure to be entertainment galore!
Someone must have spiked the chili in Cincinnati with stupid juice, because suddenly, the concept of winning games and playing with dignity is about to be lost in the blur of these mad men trying to one-up each other.
It will be comical enough watching them demand the football, leaving one to pout when the other guy is getting more touches or the other to mope when he isn’t catching the winning touchdown pass. But if we’ve learned anything through the years from these hopeless attention hogs, it’s that they’re entertainers first who inevitably will vie to have the most Twitter followers, pull off the more discussed end-zone stunts and, frighteningly enough, attract the higher ratings in their back-to-back reality shows on VH1. Read More >>
Dez Bryant Refuses to be a Victim of Rookie Hazing
It may seem childish and immature to harass the newbie’s but a strong camaraderie among a team starts with respect for the older players. And who says there can’t be a little fun involved?
It didn’t take rookie Dez Bryant long to find a comfort zone with the Dallas Cowboys…or to raise an eyebrow or two amongst his teammates.
Bryant, the wide receiver and first-round pick who wowed fans at the Alamodome during the team’s first training camp workouts over the weekend, refused to take part Sunday in the rookie ritual of carrying veterans’ shoulder pads to the locker room.
“I’m not doing it,” Bryant said. “I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player’s pads. I just feel like I’m here to play football. I’m here to try to help win a championship, not carry another man’s pads. I’m not saying that out of disrespect.” Read More >>
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