- What's up with the Dolphins cutting Trent Green, Marty Booker, and a sheaf of other players? The explanation from the team is that they "are trying to clear some cap space to sign free agents". Ohhh-kay. You were already $22 million UNDER the cap to start with, and that got you to a 1-15 season. Now that you're $31 million under the cap, what does that do for you? Maybe if you save ALL the money, and have zero players (or maybe make *them* pay the team to play!) and then the team will really be a money-maker, and they'll only be one win worse than last year. I should be an NFL GM, I think.
-- According to ProFootballTalk, the Ravens - who weren't happy to see super-stud LB Adalius Thomas bolt to the Pats in the last off-season - aren't going to take any chances with semi-stud LB Terrell Suggs. Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome announced that the team would use their franchise player tag on Suggs in order to keep him from walking. Incidentally, Suggs has the same agent (Gary Wichard) as Colts DE Dwight Freeney - and after Indy slapped Freeney with the same franchise tag last year, Wichard negotiated a 6-year, $72M deal for his client that included $30M in guaranteed money.
So, in the words of the stuttering boxing champ in the movie 'Harlem Nights', Terrell Suggs, "you get ready to be a rich [brother]".-- There is speculation that Pats CB Asante Samuel, fresh off of dropping a sure interception on the final drive of the Super Bowl - an INT that would have sealed a perfect season for the Pats, may be the first DB to sign a $100M contract. Nate Clements signed an $80M deal with the 49ers last year, but Yahoo's Jason Cole thinks that mark is going to be topped this off-season.
"Under the terms of the one-year tender contract Samuel agreed to before last season, the Patriots can't put the "franchise" tag on him again this year, making him an unrestricted free agent this offseason.
That fact was of keen interest to a number of players in action Sunday at the Pro Bowl. The Denver Broncos' Champ Bailey, once the highest paid cornerback in the league, wants to see what Samuel is offered and accepts. Cornerback Marcus Trufant, who is likely to be franchised by the Seattle Seahawks this month, is interested. Finally, budding star Antonio Cromartie of San Diego, who has the size, speed and skill to be the best of all of them, could be talking to the Chargers about an extension in the next couple of years."
-- Apparently there were some murmurs in Honolulu over the weekend that Jerry Jones, who is looking to make a big splash this off-season, wants to work a deal for Cardinals' WR Larry Fitzgerald. According to the secret source, the hyperactive owner wanted to closely observe Fitz at the Pro Bowl, especially to see what the chemistry was like when Fitz was around the numerous (13 in total) Cowboys Pro-Bowlers. Tony Romo did throw a TD pass to Fitzgerald in that game, and with the Cowboys stocked with plenty of tradeable assets (including TWO 1st-round picks in the upcoming NFL Draft), it seems like a very plausible scenario.
My question is: how is Terrell Owens going to feel with a guy like Fitzgerald on the other side, who is probably as good a WR as Owens is - and doesn't drop as many passes? How pissed would T.O. be if #11 became Romo's favorite target instead of #81? T.O. doesn't like to share the spotlight - as evidenced by the sideline interview at the Pro Bowl with him during the 3rd quarter, and T.O. had caught his second TD of the game and predicted that he would be chosen as the game's MVP.
"For a while there, it was looking like T.J. [Houshmandzadeh] would be the MVP. He caught two earlier in the game, but now I've just passed him."
I have two thoughts on this:
1) Sweet irony that MVP ended up being rookie Adrian Peterson (T.O. was nowhere to be seen after the game)
2) I don't know where T.O. attended first grade, but if you have two of something (like TDs), and someone else also has two of something, you haven't "passed them". You're actually tied.
Hope that helps.
---JohnnyU
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